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Email required Address never made public. Given that he reached a height of 24 miles above the surface of the Earth, it seems remarkable that he was able to land with such accuracy back on the desert floor in New Mexico. His team later confirmed that his landing site was just 23 miles from where the balloon had taken off several hours earlier.
Unlike an astronaut, Baumgartner remained within the Earth's atmosphere so never experienced the planet rotating underneath him as witnessed by anyone actually in orbit. His team waited for the perfect weather conditions when high-altitude winds that might have caused his balloon to drift were at a minimum. Once he exited his free-fall by deploying his parachute, Baumgartner was able to "steer" himself to a preferred landing spot.
A beacon inside his suit meant his recovery helicopter was able to closely follow him. I'll fight fires and rescue people. No e-mails, no phone calls.
How long will it be before every Tom, Dick and Harry adventure-seeker is queuing up to do this? This will put off the vast majority of copycats, but the high-profile stunt is expected to provoke a surge in interest for parachuting. A surprising amount of questions on social networking sites seemed to be about his marital status. Bad news, though: Nicole Oetl, his girlfriend, was waiting alongside his parents for news of his safe return.
Reentering from orbit, the trajectory is nearly flat, so the deceleration occurs over a span of thousands of miles. A slight amount of lift enables the vehicle to prolong the entry, reducing the peak deceleration even more. More interestingly if ALL the dissapated kinetic energy went into internal body heat: assume he is made of water 4. Clearly most of the heat was conducted away. Some questions that might be interesting to know: At what altitude did he reach max velocity i. What was his maximum aerodynamic drag?
And at what altitude? At how altitude decelerating did he drop back through the sound barrier? Did he reach dense air quickly enough he coulda made it without an oxygen supply i. There's really no such thing as a space station that is "stationary with respect to the earth. A more realistic situation is a space station that is stationary with respect to a given point on the surface of the earth.
We actually have satellites that exhibit this condition. They are known as geosynchronous satellites and are very important for applications like communications and GPS. Now, a space station in geosynchronous orbit must have a component of "sideways" velocity the same as any other object in orbit. In this case, the orbital velocity simply matches the speed of the earth's rotation, keeping the same point on the earth's surface directly under the station.
If you were on the station, you would share this velocity. Stepping off of the station does not change your velocity, since no external force acts on you upon your departure from the station. Therefore, since your velocity remains unchanged, you would also be in geosynchronous orbit, and you would not fall to the earth. If you orbit the earth at the altitude of 22, miles, then your orbital period time it takes to circle the earth one time is 24 hours.
As a result, you are stationary with respect to the earth's surface. Also, you are still subject to gravity, in the same way that any orbiting body is subject to gravity. I was ready to go. Video: Skydiver's edge-of-space dive breaks sound barrier. Astronauts hail skydiver Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking supersonic jump. With a little fear, skydiver ready to leap into record books.
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