If the weather cooperates this Sunday, Austrian Felix Baumgartner will climb into a capsule borne aloft by a giant balloon, ascend 22 miles above the earth’s surface, then jump out to set a new record for the highest freefall. Baumgartner’s Red Bull Stratos project has been delayed multiple times — he was sitting in the capsule on Tuesday when it was aborted because of high winds — and Sunday offers the next weather window. Whether he jumps or not, though, this computer-generated video should be watched. The animation is off-the-hook realistic, the drama of the moment tangible at every turn, the perspectives positively mindblowing. Real is real and come Sunday let’s hope Felix has a safe and successful jump, but in the meantime it’s hard to imagine a more amazing telling of the story than this.
See Amazing Outer Space Jump Before It Happens
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Felix Baumgartner is the world’s biggest tease. Jump already.
Check out story of Kittinger, current freefall record holder.
http://www.history.com/news/joe-kittingers-death-defying-leap-from-the-edge-of-space