Mission to the Edge Of Space

[OSU_Buckguy]

 

[Mac]

Is there a video of this yet? I missed it :(

 

[TooTall]

Is there a video of this yet? I missed it :(

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHtvDA0W34I"]Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall from 128k' - Mission Highlights - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Bucknut24]

Is there a video of this yet? I missed it :(

of course you would

 

[Muck]

I watched this and was talking to my parents, its absolutely amazing feat but I told my parents this seems like the most important space event I have, likely will have, in my lifetime. Unlike them who were in there teens and twenties during the space race.

This. I feel so honored to say I watched this happen.

For fucks sake people, coverage =/= importance.

This is a stunt (however cool) that doesn't push our knowledge much beyond what was learned with Project Excelsior 50 years ago.

Meanwhile the first commercially designed & launched resupply spacecraft is currently docked with the ISS, the X-37B will be launched for it's third long duration flight in the coming weeks & the Mars Curiosity mission sent back detailed information about the exact dangers that will be faced by astronauts during interplanetary flight (look up 'Radiation Assessment Detector') before it arrived at the red planet.

 

[TooTall]

For fucks sake people, coverage =/= importance.

This is a stunt (however cool) that doesn't push our knowledge much beyond what was learned with Project Excelsior 50 years ago.

Meanwhile the first commercially designed & launched resupply spacecraft is currently docked with the ISS, the X-37B will be launched for it's third long duration flight in the coming weeks & the Mars Curiosity mission sent back detailed information about the exact dangers that will be faced by astronauts during interplanetary flight (look up 'Radiation Assessment Detector') before it arrived at the red planet.

Jesus, Muck... Sorry for not being a fucking fossil.

 

[Muck]

Jesus, Muck... Sorry for not being a fucking fossil.

The X-37b, CRS-1 & MarsCuriosity missions are operating as we speak.

SpaceShipTwo is undergoing glide tests & Virgin is working on it's follow up (SS3) which is planned to provide suborbital passenger service (New York to Sydney in two hours).

The point is that there are programs going on right now that are legitimate pioneers in the future of man's access to space. Those are the important events that are happening during this part of our lives...not a Red Bull commercial. It's a pretty amazing feat but in the grand scheme of things it is not that important.

FYI Col. Kittinger's jumps occurred more than a decade before my birth. :p

 

[TooTall]

The X-37b, CRS-1 & MarsCuriosity missions are operating as we speak.

SpaceShipTwo is undergoing glide tests & Virgin is working on it's follow up (SS3) which is planned to provide suborbital passenger service (New York to Sydney in two hours).

The point is that there are programs going on right now that are legitimate pioneers in the future of man's access to space. Those are the important events that are happening during this part of our lives...not a Red Bull commercial. It's a pretty amazing feat but in the grand scheme of things it is not that important.

FYI Col. Kittinger's jumps occurred more than a decade before my birth. :p

Just thought I'd get some more age jabs in.

It's not that important, but how many people can say they've jumped out of a capsule from 127,000 feet above the Earth, and lived to tell about it?

 

[Jagdaddy]

Between him, Chuck Yeager, and this Kittinger guy (who likely noone had heard about before today) ....

who's got the bigger set? I still stick with Yeager

I'll go with Kittinger. Way less technology protecting him than the dude today. Still, it's kind of like asking who the ugliest Michigan cheerleader is: They all push the limits.

 

[Poe McKnoe]

Watch out for that first step, it's duesey.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAgEyDAEBfg"]Watch out for that first step, it's a doozy - YouTube[/ame]

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

For [censored]s sake people, coverage =/= importance.

This is a stunt (however cool) that doesn't push our knowledge much beyond what was learned with Project Excelsior 50 years ago.

Meanwhile the first commercially designed & launched resupply spacecraft is currently docked with the ISS, the X-37B will be launched for it's third long duration flight in the coming weeks & the Mars Curiosity mission sent back detailed information about the exact dangers that will be faced by astronauts during interplanetary flight (look up 'Radiation Assessment Detector') before it arrived at the red planet.

Muck I see your point with all of these, and perhaps I should have phrased it as most important human space event of my lifetime so far (31), even if it was commercially sponsored.


However, I truly hope to happily eat my words, as we humans ('Mericans mainly) venture further into the unknown. At this point I just don't see it happening, except maybe the Chinese or the Indians doing it, which is just sad IMHO