RedbullStratos
01-23-2010, 07:42 AM
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Joe Kittinger and RedbullStratos
WOW, is all I can say
Felix Baumgartner, Space Diving, Space Jump | Red Bull Stratos
this gives me new hope for the next generations of true scientists and explorers....
I am glad to see Joe Kittinger is involved in this....
Felix Baumgartner, Space Diving, Space Jump | Red Bull Stratos
this gives me new hope for the next generations of true scientists and explorers....
I am glad to see Joe Kittinger is involved in this....
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01-24-2010, 11:59 PM
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ole Joe K ended up with injures after his jumps. and this was the military funding the operation, its been tried and done before. its had people go after it and fail....guess Bed Bull need some more publicity after putting cocaine in ther drink
10-09-2012, 06:34 AM
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10-09-2012, 08:35 AM
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Luke Aikins, one of the technical advisors for this project is the son of a UA 777 Capt. and grew up on the airport flying and jumping. He's a 3rd generation skydiver and is probably one of the most thorough and innovative jumpers out there. I was talking to him about the Stratos project and he said that they're taking the science aspect of the jump to a whole new level. It will be exciting to see what spinoff technology comes from this.
10-09-2012, 04:47 PM
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It was done 50+ years ago. Back then, I could see some benefit since we hadn't been in orbit, or to the moon, or space walked and were just starting with the U-2/SR-71/X-15, etc.
There's not a lot of unknowns between the surface and 120K' these days. The guy is in the best pressure suit money can buy using a high-tech gondola and once he gets high enough, he's going to free-fall until he's low and slow enough to deploy his chute. 10-20 minutes... done. What am I missing? Someone please educate me.
10-10-2012, 04:47 AM
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I guess I'll speak up and probably show my ignorance. What possible science aspect or spinoffs could really come out of this?
It was done 50+ years ago. Back then, I could see some benefit since we hadn't been in orbit, or to the moon, or space walked and were just starting with the U-2/SR-71/X-15, etc.
There's not a lot of unknowns between the surface and 120K' these days. The guy is in the best pressure suit money can buy using a high-tech gondola and once he gets high enough, he's going to free-fall until he's low and slow enough to deploy his chute. 10-20 minutes... done. What am I missing? Someone please educate me.
It was done 50+ years ago. Back then, I could see some benefit since we hadn't been in orbit, or to the moon, or space walked and were just starting with the U-2/SR-71/X-15, etc.
There's not a lot of unknowns between the surface and 120K' these days. The guy is in the best pressure suit money can buy using a high-tech gondola and once he gets high enough, he's going to free-fall until he's low and slow enough to deploy his chute. 10-20 minutes... done. What am I missing? Someone please educate me.
SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION FOCUS
Red Bull Stratos aims to provide information that will further the progression of aerospace safety. The key benefits for the science community are as follows:
- To aid development of a new generation of space suits - including enhanced mobility and visual clarity - and other systems to lead toward passenger/crew exit from space.
- To aid development of protocols for exposure to high altitude/high acceleration.
- To aid exploration of the effects on the human body of supersonic acceleration and deceleration, including development of the latest innovations in parachute systems.
Red Bull Stratos aims to provide information that will further the progression of aerospace safety. The key benefits for the science community are as follows:
- To aid development of a new generation of space suits - including enhanced mobility and visual clarity - and other systems to lead toward passenger/crew exit from space.
- To aid development of protocols for exposure to high altitude/high acceleration.
- To aid exploration of the effects on the human body of supersonic acceleration and deceleration, including development of the latest innovations in parachute systems.
It also mentions else where that they hope to use the data to help develop emergency evac procedures for the upcoming privatized low orbit space flight industry.
10-10-2012, 02:24 PM
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10-10-2012, 04:01 PM
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Without a manned pace program, why do we need improved space suits? What possible application is there for research in human supersonic flight? Exactly where do humans break the sound barrier sans plane?
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10-10-2012, 04:28 PM
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I think we need a manned program. I suspect certain groups have an agenda to terminate US manned spaceflight for good, the current gap is simply easing us into that, testing the waters as it were.
But there are tremendous intangible and indirect benefits to a manned program...that's why so many other nations are pursuing such programs even though the best any of them can hope for in the mid-term is to repeat things the US and USSR have already accomplished.
