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Synopsis: A documentary of one man's quest to freefall back to earth from the edge of space, to become the first man to fall faster than the speed of sound.
 
IMDB:
7.3
TV-PG
Year:
2012
90 min
18 Views


for a manned flight.

One tenth as thick

as a polythene bag

but strong enough to carry the space

capsule that Art is building.

At launch,

it will be filled with helium

until it's taller

than a fifty-storey building.

It's amazing that this

piece of plastic, that is

no thicker than a dry cleaner bag,

is going to hold up all this weight.

At around 63,000 feet, it will

pass through the Armstrong line.

Beyond this point,

the lack of pressure

would be deadly without protection.

As it rises, the gas will expand

until the balloon

is the width of a football field.

It will take three hours to carry

Felix 24 miles above the earth.

Getting him there is hard enough.

Keeping him alive is even harder.

We're talking about the medical

and physiological considerations

of an extreme altitude jump.

Felix and Joe

meet the project's medical team.

We have to go through the what-if's

to understand what our choices are.

It includes a former astronaut

and the world's leading expert

on altitude sickness.

This is what happens in the body.

The CO2,

partial pressure of oxygen...

The doctors have identified a series

of high-altitude dangers.

First, a life-threatening condition

called hypoxia.

Definition of hypoxia.

It's a deficiency of oxygen.

These are the symptoms.

You may get impaired efficiency,

drowsiness, poor judgement,

visual blurring, extreme fatigue,

you're not really functional

at that point.

But there's a bigger threat -

the lack of atmospheric pressure

above the Armstrong line.

Ebulism. Definition -

tissue vaporization. It's dramatic.

It's life-threatening.

Above the Armstrong line,

you don't have the pressure

of the atmosphere holding the gas

in your blood stream.

The gas is trying to find

the fastest path out of your body.

Out of every orifice you have,

you'll start to ooze fluids.

Your body wants to swell up

twice its size.

It's like the worst possible

horror film.

We can show you a video of a guy

that had that in a chamber,

suit pressurised, it becomes

disconnected from a life support.

He remembered his tongue

was boiling.

'You're so far away from anything,

any medical treatment,

'any help at all.

If something goes wrong,'

you're by yourself.

That is really scary.

This is what I'm thinking about

all the time.

Where do you want to abort? At what

level of risk do you want to abort?

Only way to ensure his safety

is stay on the ground.

He's not going to do that.

We're talking about risk factors -

that's a crock.

We're going to do this project.

Let's just get out of this,

accept a little bit of risk

and press on.

'The consensus is that

he can survive the experience.'

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