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Red Bull Stratos, Felix has landed!

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We don't know whether he broke the speed of sound, I'm pretty sure it was short but inform me if I am wrong.

Also, congratulations to Felix and the team at Mission Control.

He did break the speed of sound, if I recall correctly his maximum velocity was around 730mi/h. He did not however break the record for longest freefall.

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He did break the speed of sound, if I recall correctly his maximum velocity was around 730mi/h. He did not however break the record for longest freefall.

Ah OK then, well we are just waiting for official conformation now I guess on the records he got.

I watched it for about an hour, god that was epic!

I watched it from the start, it was getting annoying towards the end with everyone else jumping on and clogging everything up.

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Eh, neh...well, it's darn cool. The only thing that bugs me about the whole escapade is who was doing the funding, but it's not like a drink franchise has much interest in it than the advertising on something cool, and they seem to be keeping their claws off the science as a result.

Hell, I'm just glad the human race has these types in it still. Taking some risks like this push us forward, and he proved that it's possible for a human to (more-or-less) re-enter from orbit. A squishy human. I have to wonder if it's at all possible to slap a small SAS unit onto the suit so that there'd be some automatic control of angular momentum in stratosphere so there's less of a chance of turning the squishy meatbag into red pasty sauce.

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Hell, I'm just glad the human race has these types in it still. Taking some risks like this push us forward, and he proved that it's possible for a human to (more-or-less) re-enter from orbit. A squishy human.

Please ! A freefall at Mach 1 is levels of magnitude easier than reentering at Mach 20. You would need a serious rocket to deorbit and lose as much of the speed as possible before reentry, then some kind of TPS and a rigid suit or capsule or else you would be ripped apart and toast, and then some sort of attitude control system to keep your TPS properly oriented.

I have to wonder if it's at all possible to slap a small SAS unit onto the suit so that there'd be some automatic control of angular momentum in stratosphere so there's less of a chance of turning the squishy meatbag into red pasty sauce.

SAS is Kerbal-speak for a gyroscopic flywheel. That would be heavy!

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I figured someone would come along and try to pick-apart what I said. That's why I prefaced everything with conditional phrases ("more-or-less" and "I have to wonder"). Joke's on you, silly.

As for the terminology mix-up, yes, I'm referring to flywheels, yes, it'd be heavy (that's rather the point, but as long as you can get out the door...). That, and I haven't slept in two days, so forgive me for referring to a KSP term on a KSP forum when I'm talking about reaction wheels.

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