Boing Boing » red bull http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 07:17:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Cats free-falling from space http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/cats-free-falling-from-space.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/cats-free-falling-from-space.html#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:55:51 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=187441

Created by combatcameraman on b3ta. Felix the cat! (Via: crackajack.de. Thanks, Tara McGinley)

 
]]> http://boingboing.net/2012/10/15/cats-free-falling-from-space.html/feed 29 Free-fall from stratosphere, live now http://boingboing.net/2012/10/14/free-fall-from-stratosphere-l.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/14/free-fall-from-stratosphere-l.html#comments Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:14:54 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=187344
The Red Bull Stratos attempt is happening now. Above, an embed of the live stream. 7 weird but magical words: Red Bull Mission Control Roswell New Mexico! Expert parachuter Felix Baumgartner, best known for completing an unprecedented freefall flight across the English Channel using a carbon wing, will be the man who fell to earth.

Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space that will try to surpass human limits that have existed for more than 50 years. Supported by a team of experts, Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to more than 120,000 feet / 36,576 meters and make a record-breaking freefall jump in the attempt to become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles / 1,110 kilometers per hour), while delivering valuable data for medical and scientific advancement.

Status updates on Twitter. More about the mission here.

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