Space Dive
- TV-PG
- Year:
- 2012
- 90 min
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Sunday 14th October.
Mission control. We're
in perfect conditions for launch.
The world is watching...
To expedite the process...
..as a man in a space suit
flies a balloon to 128,000 feet.
We are away. Felix is away.
At the edge of space,
he leaves the capsule,
stands on a tiny step...
..and jumps.
He becomes the first person to fall
faster than the speed of sound.
But although the world watched,
it didn't see the whole story.
How seconds earlier, as he fell,
Felix Baumgartner lost control
and came close to disaster.
What is he doing?
He's spinning, isn't he?
How on the way up, he was nearly
forced to call off the whole jump.
We have an emergency here.
We could very well be cutting him
down any minute.
And how four years of struggles
and setbacks
pushed the mission
to the brink of collapse.
Two flights, two mission aborts -
stop selling me excuses.
What's going on?
He had the opportunity
to get trained properly.
He never took advantage of it.
Sometimes feels like
it's just too much.
This is the untold story
of how a team of scientists
and sky-divers...
Rock and roll!
..took a giant leap...
..and stunned the world.
I had this dream
when I was a little kid.
Always the same dream, you know,
I'm just walking out here
on the street,
I run for a couple of feet,
then I take off.
It was always a show-off flight
to my friends,
cos they don't believe it.
"OK, wait until you see this."
You can do backflips, front flips,
you can do spins,
you can do whatever you want.
Then coming back after a couple
"See, I told you I can fly."
Felix Baumgartner
is gripped by an obsession.
He wants to fly.
Higher, further, faster
than any human has ever dared.
But to realise that dream,
that has stood
for more than fifty years.
In 1960, test pilot Joe Kittinger
volunteered for a mission
to test survival at the edge
of the Earth's atmosphere.
Protected by just a pressure suit,
he flew a balloon
beyond 100,000 feet.
Not only did he survive the flight,
at the edge of space,
he did something extraordinary.
Joe fell 19 miles back to earth.
His feat was so dangerous
and technically difficult
that it has never been matched.
Before Felix can
take on HIS near-space mission,
he needs to be trained.
Only one man has the skills
and experience for the job.
Retired Colonel...Joe Kittinger.
I think the first week after my jump
I got a phone call from a guy
wanting to beat my record.
And monthly since then, for 50 years
I've been getting calls.
99% of them
have no idea of the challenge.
Joe has come out of retirement
to help Felix break his record
to freefall faster
than the speed of sound.
It's kind of a weird thought
when you look at all these
supersonic planes.
And when I do my jump,
I'm travelling at the same speed.
Well, nobody's ever done it.
I can't estimate, but it's going to
be the dynamics, aeronautics,
CG changes, turbulence.
Felix really doesn't
have the experience
and the background that I had.
But he'll be going five miles higher
than what I jumped from
so I've got to be extra intense
at looking at how he's doing.
When I go supersonic speed,
You're a bomb.
A bomb?
You're a bomb.
I want to be an aeroplane,
not a bomb!
You're a bomb that can manoeuvre.
But I was born to fly.
That's right, you were born to fly.
And you'd better fly too!
obsession with flying into a career.
He is a professional BASE jumper.
He's set records for the highest
jump from a building...
..and the lowest.
But for this mission,
Felix needs to jump from 20 miles
higher than he has ever been before.
Just getting there
requires a multi-million dollar
space programme.
Screw it in, screw it in.
It's still got to go this way.
A team of 20 engineers
and scientists
is working on the technology to fly
Felix beyond the stratosphere.
We're trying to take a human being
up into space
and have him come back safely.
I've got a diagram here.
I call it a plumbing diagram -
we're space plumbers.
All the way over.
The man in charge is Art Thompson.
Oh, my God!
This is going to be big, isn't it?!
Art has worked on rocket planes
for NASA
and stealth bombers
for the US military.
But for this mission, he's working
for an Austrian drinks company.
You really got to kind of hand it
to them that they took on
this commitment to do, in essence,
a privately funded space programme.
But Red Bull's budget
of 3.5 million pounds
comes with something
these engineers aren't used to -
a 12-month deadline.
We've got schedules to make!
We've got big schedules to make!
Yeah!
Despite the lack of time, Art's
ideas for the project are ambitious.
as a napkin sketch in the middle
of the night
and eventually
that ends up becoming more.
It's a technical beast
that keeps growing.
Just like Joe's day,
the only way up for Felix
is via the oldest aircraft of all -
a balloon.
It's almost like the space programme
going full circle again.
It started with the balloon,
we've come back to the balloon.
But this is no ordinary balloon.
At nearly 30 million cubic feet,
it's the biggest ever used
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
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.
the lack of atmospheric pressure
above the Armstrong line.
Ebulism. Definition -
tissue vaporization. It's dramatic.
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