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From: Santhosh Kumar Krishnamurthi06 <Santho...@infosys.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:30:13 +0000
Subject: FW: Felix Baumgartner's Jump from Space...!!!
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From: Srinivas Raja Rajendran
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:47 PM
Subject: Felix Baumgartner's Jump from Space...!!!
Jump from space makes Felix Baumgartner world's first supersonic skydiver
Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of space, poised in the open
doorway of a capsule suspended above Earth and wondering if he would
make it back alive. Twenty four miles below him, millions of people
were right there with him, watching on the Internet and marveling at
the wonder of the moment.
A second later, he stepped off the capsule and barreled toward the New
Mexico desert as a tiny white speck against a darkly-tinted sky.
Millions watched him breathlessly as he shattered the sound barrier
and then landed safely about nine minutes later, becoming the world's
first supersonic skydiver.
"When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble,
you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think
about gaining scientific data," Baumgartner said after the jump. "The
only thing you want is to come back alive."
The tightly-orchestrated jump meant primarily to entertain became much
more than that in the dizzying, breathtaking moment - a collectively
shared cross between Neil Armstrong's moon landing and Evel Knievel's
famed motorcycle jumps on ABC's "Wide World of Sports."
It was part scientific wonder, part daredevil reality show, with the
live-streamed event instantly capturing the world's attention on a
sleepy Sunday at the same time seven NFL football games were being
played. It proved, once again, the power of the Internet in a world
where news travels as fast as Twitter.
The event happened without a network broadcast in the United States,
though organizers said more than 40 television stations in 50
countries - including cable's Discovery Channel in the US - carried
the live feed. Instead, millions flocked online, drawing more than 8
million simultaneous views to a YouTube live stream at its peak,
YouTube officials said.
More than 130 digital outlets carried the live feed, organizers said.
It was a last hurrah for what some have billed as a dying Space Age,
as NASA's shuttle program ends and the ways humans explore space is
dramatically changing. As the jump unfolded, the space shuttle
Endeavor crept toward a Los Angeles museum, where it will become
nothing more than an exhibit.
Baumgartner, a 43-year-old Austrian, hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph,
according to preliminary data, and became the first person to reach
supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft. The
capsule he jumped from had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above
Earth, carried by a 55-story ultra-thin helium balloon.
Landing on his feet in the desert, the man known as "Fearless Felix"
lifted his arms in victory to the cheers of jubilant friends and
spectators who closely followed at a command center. Among them was
his mother, Eva Baumgartner, who was overcome with emotion, crying.
"Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are," an
exuberant Baumgartner told reporters outside mission control after the
jump.
About half of Baumgartner's nine-minute descent was a free fall of
119,846 feet, according to Brian Utley, a jump observer from the FAI,
an international group that works to determine and maintain the
integrity of aviation records.
During the first part of Baumgartner's free fall, anxious onlookers at
the command center held their breath as he appeared to spin
uncontrollably.
"When I was spinning first 10, 20 seconds, I never thought I was going
to lose my life but I was disappointed because I'm going to lose my
record. I put seven years of my life into this," he said.
He added: "In that situation, when you spin around, it's like hell and
you don't know if you can get out of that spin or not. Of course, it
was terrifying. I was fighting all the way down because I knew that
there must be a moment where I can handle it."
Baumgartner said traveling faster than sound is "hard to describe
because you don't feel it." The pressurized suit prevented him from
feeling the rushing air or even the loud noise he made when breaking
the sound barrier.
With no reference points, "you don't know how fast you travel," he said.
Coincidentally, Baumgartner's accomplishment came on the 65th
anniversary of the day that U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager became the
first man to officially break the sound barrier in a jet. Yeager, in
fact, commemorated that feat on Sunday, flying in the back seat of an
F-15 Eagle as it broke the sound barrier at more than 30,000 feet
above California's Mojave Desert.
At Baumgartner's insistence, some 30 cameras recorded his stunt.
Shortly after launch early Sunday, screens at mission control showed
the capsule, dangling from the massive balloon, as it rose gracefully
above the New Mexico desert. Baumgartner could be seen on video,
calmly checking instruments inside the capsule.
The dive was more than just a stunt. NASA is eager to improve its
blueprints for future spacesuits.
Baumgartner's team included Joe Kittinger, who first tried to break
the sound barrier from 19.5 miles up in 1960, reaching speeds of 614
mph. With Kittinger inside mission control, the two men could be heard
going over technical details during the ascension.
"Our guardian angel will take care of you," Kittinger radioed to
Baumgartner around the 100,000-foot mark.
After Baumgartner landed, his sponsor, Red Bull, posted a picture to
Facebook of him kneeling on the ground. It generated nearly 216,000
likes, 10,000 comments and more than 29,000 shares in less than 40
minutes.
On Twitter, half the worldwide trending topics had something to do
with the jump, pushing past seven NFL football games. Among them was
this tweet from NASA: "Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner and
RedBull Stratos on record-breaking leap from the edge of space!"
This attempt marked the end of a long road for Baumgartner, a
record-setting high-altitude jumper. He already made two preparation
jumps in the area, one from 15 miles high and another from 18 miles
high. He has said that this was his final jump.
Red Bull has never said how much the long-running, complex project cost.
Although he broke the sound barrier, the highest manned-balloon flight
record and became the man to jump from the highest altitude, he failed
to break Kittinger's 5 minute and 35 second longest free fall record.
Baumgartner's was timed at 4 minutes and 20 seconds in free fall.
He said he opened his parachute at 5,000 feet because that was the plan.
"I was putting everything out there, and hope for the best and if we
left one record for Joe - hey it's fine," he said when asked if he
intentionally left the record for Kittinger to hold. "We needed Joe
Kittinger to help us break his own record, and that tells the story of
how difficult it was and how smart they were in the 60's. He is 84
years old, and he is still so bright and intelligent and
enthusiastic".
Baumgartner has said he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and
fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the
U.S. and Austria.
Before that, though, he said, "I'll go back to LA to chill out for a few days."
Grazie e saluti,
SRR@infyLtd
ALSTOM |TGN
ENG-MYS1
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From: Santhosh Kumar Krishnamurthi06 <Santho...@infosys.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 05:30:13 +0000
Subject: FW: Felix Baumgartner's Jump from Space...!!!
To: "santhos...@gmail.com" <santhos...@gmail.com>
From: Srinivas Raja Rajendran
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:47 PM
Subject: Felix Baumgartner's Jump from Space...!!!
Jump from space makes Felix Baumgartner world's first supersonic skydiver
Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of space, poised in the open
doorway of a capsule suspended above Earth and wondering if he would
make it back alive. Twenty four miles below him, millions of people
were right there with him, watching on the Internet and marveling at
the wonder of the moment.
A second later, he stepped off the capsule and barreled toward the New
Mexico desert as a tiny white speck against a darkly-tinted sky.
Millions watched him breathlessly as he shattered the sound barrier
and then landed safely about nine minutes later, becoming the world's
first supersonic skydiver.
"When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble,
you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think
about gaining scientific data," Baumgartner said after the jump. "The
only thing you want is to come back alive."
The tightly-orchestrated jump meant primarily to entertain became much
more than that in the dizzying, breathtaking moment - a collectively
shared cross between Neil Armstrong's moon landing and Evel Knievel's
famed motorcycle jumps on ABC's "Wide World of Sports."
It was part scientific wonder, part daredevil reality show, with the
live-streamed event instantly capturing the world's attention on a
sleepy Sunday at the same time seven NFL football games were being
played. It proved, once again, the power of the Internet in a world
where news travels as fast as Twitter.
The event happened without a network broadcast in the United States,
though organizers said more than 40 television stations in 50
countries - including cable's Discovery Channel in the US - carried
the live feed. Instead, millions flocked online, drawing more than 8
million simultaneous views to a YouTube live stream at its peak,
YouTube officials said.
More than 130 digital outlets carried the live feed, organizers said.
It was a last hurrah for what some have billed as a dying Space Age,
as NASA's shuttle program ends and the ways humans explore space is
dramatically changing. As the jump unfolded, the space shuttle
Endeavor crept toward a Los Angeles museum, where it will become
nothing more than an exhibit.
Baumgartner, a 43-year-old Austrian, hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph,
according to preliminary data, and became the first person to reach
supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft. The
capsule he jumped from had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above
Earth, carried by a 55-story ultra-thin helium balloon.
Landing on his feet in the desert, the man known as "Fearless Felix"
lifted his arms in victory to the cheers of jubilant friends and
spectators who closely followed at a command center. Among them was
his mother, Eva Baumgartner, who was overcome with emotion, crying.
"Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are," an
exuberant Baumgartner told reporters outside mission control after the
jump.
About half of Baumgartner's nine-minute descent was a free fall of
119,846 feet, according to Brian Utley, a jump observer from the FAI,
an international group that works to determine and maintain the
integrity of aviation records.
During the first part of Baumgartner's free fall, anxious onlookers at
the command center held their breath as he appeared to spin
uncontrollably.
"When I was spinning first 10, 20 seconds, I never thought I was going
to lose my life but I was disappointed because I'm going to lose my
record. I put seven years of my life into this," he said.
He added: "In that situation, when you spin around, it's like hell and
you don't know if you can get out of that spin or not. Of course, it
was terrifying. I was fighting all the way down because I knew that
there must be a moment where I can handle it."
Baumgartner said traveling faster than sound is "hard to describe
because you don't feel it." The pressurized suit prevented him from
feeling the rushing air or even the loud noise he made when breaking
the sound barrier.
With no reference points, "you don't know how fast you travel," he said.
Coincidentally, Baumgartner's accomplishment came on the 65th
anniversary of the day that U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager became the
first man to officially break the sound barrier in a jet. Yeager, in
fact, commemorated that feat on Sunday, flying in the back seat of an
F-15 Eagle as it broke the sound barrier at more than 30,000 feet
above California's Mojave Desert.
At Baumgartner's insistence, some 30 cameras recorded his stunt.
Shortly after launch early Sunday, screens at mission control showed
the capsule, dangling from the massive balloon, as it rose gracefully
above the New Mexico desert. Baumgartner could be seen on video,
calmly checking instruments inside the capsule.
The dive was more than just a stunt. NASA is eager to improve its
blueprints for future spacesuits.
Baumgartner's team included Joe Kittinger, who first tried to break
the sound barrier from 19.5 miles up in 1960, reaching speeds of 614
mph. With Kittinger inside mission control, the two men could be heard
going over technical details during the ascension.
"Our guardian angel will take care of you," Kittinger radioed to
Baumgartner around the 100,000-foot mark.
After Baumgartner landed, his sponsor, Red Bull, posted a picture to
Facebook of him kneeling on the ground. It generated nearly 216,000
likes, 10,000 comments and more than 29,000 shares in less than 40
minutes.
On Twitter, half the worldwide trending topics had something to do
with the jump, pushing past seven NFL football games. Among them was
this tweet from NASA: "Congratulations to Felix Baumgartner and
RedBull Stratos on record-breaking leap from the edge of space!"
This attempt marked the end of a long road for Baumgartner, a
record-setting high-altitude jumper. He already made two preparation
jumps in the area, one from 15 miles high and another from 18 miles
high. He has said that this was his final jump.
Red Bull has never said how much the long-running, complex project cost.
Although he broke the sound barrier, the highest manned-balloon flight
record and became the man to jump from the highest altitude, he failed
to break Kittinger's 5 minute and 35 second longest free fall record.
Baumgartner's was timed at 4 minutes and 20 seconds in free fall.
He said he opened his parachute at 5,000 feet because that was the plan.
"I was putting everything out there, and hope for the best and if we
left one record for Joe - hey it's fine," he said when asked if he
intentionally left the record for Kittinger to hold. "We needed Joe
Kittinger to help us break his own record, and that tells the story of
how difficult it was and how smart they were in the 60's. He is 84
years old, and he is still so bright and intelligent and
enthusiastic".
Baumgartner has said he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and
fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the
U.S. and Austria.
Before that, though, he said, "I'll go back to LA to chill out for a few days."
Grazie e saluti,
SRR@infyLtd
ALSTOM |TGN
ENG-MYS1
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