Jumping From Space from Mark Gray on Vimeo.
And that was in 1959 and 1960, Gentle Reader. Fascinating to say the VERY least, not to mention extraordinarily dangerous.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
A Different Sort of Space Post
Via Chap, via Ed Driscoll... USAF parachutists setting world-record high altitude parachute jumps... ultimately from 39.6 kilometers above this blue marble we call Earth:
And that was in 1959 and 1960, Gentle Reader. Fascinating to say the VERY least, not to mention extraordinarily dangerous.
And that was in 1959 and 1960, Gentle Reader. Fascinating to say the VERY least, not to mention extraordinarily dangerous.
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I could barely watch this...took my breath away. Even seeing this, it is hard to imagine.
ReplyDeleteAnd then I was seeing those scenes from Thirteen Days with the pilot dressed in the pressure suit... That movie made such an impact on me as I kind of remember but was really a bit young to have it be a worry.
I, too, was amazed at this vid. Somehow these events got past me all this time. It was all new to me.
ReplyDeleteHey, it just occured to me - at that time they had a camera in that thing that was capable of feeding images back? As in how did they get that video from above?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking the video was shot on a film camera that was taken on the ride and then recovered later. That's the way we used to do spy stuff at the time, anyway.
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