{"id":33647,"date":"2010-07-03T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33647"},"modified":"2010-07-03T09:28:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-03T16:28:33","slug":"skydiving-red-bull-stratos-team-gets-closer-to-supersonic-freefall-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=33647","title":{"rendered":"Skydiving &#8211; Red Bull Stratos team gets closer to supersonic freefall attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Later this year, Felix Baumgartner will put on a pressurized space suit and helmet, climb into a capsule suspended beneath a balloon, ride 120,000 feet into the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s upper atmosphere, then jump out and \u00e2\u20ac\u201c before deploying his parachute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c try to break the speed of sound while in freefall. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the plan, at least, for the insanely-dangerous Red Bull Stratos event. If successful, it will constitute the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest manned balloon flight, highest parachute jump, and fastest and longest freefall. The team conducted three important tests in the last week of May, that they just released the details of this week. What those tests entailed would probably be hair-raising enough to last most of us a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first two tests took place at\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/red-bull-stratos-supersonic-freefall-attempt\/15610\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this year, Felix Baumgartner will put on a pressurized space suit and helmet, climb into a capsule suspended beneath a balloon, ride 120,000 feet into the earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s upper atmosphere, then jump out and \u00e2\u20ac\u201c before deploying his parachute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c try to break the speed of sound while in freefall. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the plan, at least, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skydiving-base-jumping-hang-gliding-paragliding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33649,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33647\/revisions\/33649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}