Parachute From Space

He jumped from 128 000 feet 39 000 meters or about 24 miles up during the red bull stratos mission.

Parachute from space. Felix baumgartner was born the first of two boys his brother is gerard in salzburg austria. It is located in the backshell green canister in the model to the left. Similar to skydiving space diving is the act of jumping from an aircraft or spacecraft in near space and falling to earth. They consist of an inflatable structure with an attached flexible thermal blanket that are tightly packed for launch and then inflated in space for the reentry of the spacecraft.

Kittinger leaps from his helium balloon at 102 800 ft 31 300 m. On 20 july 2003 baumgartner became the first person to skydive across the english channel using a. The parachute helps slow the spacecraft down during entry descent and landing. As a child he dreamed about flying and skydiving.

In 1999 he claimed the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he jumped from the petronas towers in kuala lumpur malaysia. Skydiver felix baumgartner makes the highest skydive ever oct. Inside the parachute refurbishment facility at nasa s kennedy space center used mainly to process space shuttle parachutes united space alliance manager terry mcgugin and engineer dave hillebrandt head up an expert team of technicians who maintain and refurbish parachutes keeping them in exceptional working condition for future use. Felix baumgartner who accomplished a space jump by jumping from a capsule 39 kilometers 24 miles above the ground which is still way below iss s altitude needed supplementary oxygen to sustain him during his plummet.