Space Dive Page #3

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


I hope we're right.

Felix has one key piece

of safety equipment

that he has to learn to trust -

his pressurised space suit.

Joe takes him to be fitted

at the same company that made

his space suit 50 years ago.

It's a piece of art.

It's all hand done.

She just assembled these two pieces,

you can not see where

she just sewed that together.

It's impossible.

I think it's right there.

Where? No, I don't think so!

THEY LAUGH:

Cos I can't find it either.

It will take a team of people

more than a year

to build the customised suit.

A single flaw could be deadly.

You have to be very exact

about everything.

If you did do something wrong,

it could be someone's life,

you know, so...

But they check us much too much.

Space suits are designed for

protection, not for free-falling.

This is a whole new world for Felix.

Ready to do this?

Screw it in, clockwise. Screw it in.

Run it up to 3 PSI.

FELIX SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY

The suit is inflated with air,

creating a protective cocoon

around the body.

Can I jump?

This pressurised air

keeps you alive at altitude

but makes movement difficult.

Three, two, one.

Get full flex. All the way back.

Good.

Do that again.

'It's hard to describe how it feels.

'Your movements are totally limited.'

Is that hard? Is that OK?

'You can't breathe

that easy any more.

'It's difficult, you know?'

You don't feel a damn thing

in that suit.

When I go for a skydive,

I want the air

floating around my body.

I want to feel it,

I want to feel the speed,

I want to feel the temperature.

Work with the air, use it,

so you can move your body

while falling down.

'So first time wearing

the pressure suit,

'pumped up like this,'

it was like,

"Where's my freedom? It's gone!"

Felix will have to learn how to

freefall in a rigid pressure suit.

The first person

ever to do that was Joe.

Hey, Joe. Remember this?

Yeah. Looks familiar.

It's a picture of Joe

going out of the gondola.

To me it was a lot simpler,

a lot easier.

I'd worn pressure suits a long time.

I'd flown aeroplanes

in pressure suits

so I was used to flying

with a pressure suit.

I'd got used to how uncomfortable

it is.

Yeah, and I'm not a fighter pilot.

I didn't spend much time

in a pressure suit

so that's the big thing.

You are an attitude.

Back in '55, '56, '57,

space was something that no-one

ever thought would happen.

Some people actually said

we could never go there.

When Joe began his mission,

NASA was just being formed

and space travel

was still a thing of the future.

His jump was part of a research

programme called Project Excelsior.

I wasn't interested in skydiving,

I wasn't interested

in setting records.

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