Space Dive Page #5

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I don't ever want to see this

like this again.

You stretch your lines out.

From now on, I don't want to see

a cord like this.

C'mon now, we're better than that.

Back at mission headquarters,

Art and the team are struggling

with the capsule.

Three, two, one.

Woo!

APPLAUSE:

We'll see what the load cell says.

Even simple tests hit problems.

The sensor's messed up.

This project is so mentally,

physically, intense...

COMPUTER CHIMES:

..a lot of my crew is convinced

I'm trying to kill them.

The capsule's engineering

is more complicated

than anyone could have predicted.

The project

is falling behind schedule

and Red Bull's budget has trebled

to nearly 10 million.

Engineering's a process of discovery

and we discover things take

longer, or are more complex...

It sends over a project manager from

Austria to whip the team into shape.

We're still processing

information...

We discovered that we need

another electrical engineer

and a technician,

which we don't have right now.

'It's just two different worlds

colliding.'

How can a marketing person

help somebody managing

an engineering project?

We can't necessarily hire

somebody to do the job

if we don't have information.

It's their money.

Red Bull can move in and take over,

but they can't speed it up.

Red Bull insists

there can be no more delays.

I hate standing up early.

LAUGHTER:

Which is not early for most people,

but eight o'clock to me

is like the middle of the night.

Felix's training in the pressure

suit begins at a facility

used by the military to simulate

conditions on the edge of space.

Overseeing the test

is Joe's colleague, Mike Todd.

'It's really a training exercise

for Felix.'

He has a limited suit experience

and the more experience

we can get him in the suit,

the more confident

he's going to be at altitude.

Sir, whenever you're ready,

go ahead and reach up to the top

and bring your visor down slowly.

The suit's flexibility

is still causing Felix concern.

Now he'll find out what it's like

working in it for several hours.

'I've seen people struggle

with pressure suits.'

'You're in your own

little environment,

'it's a little plastic bubble,

'and you've always got something

touching your skin some place

'which reminds you that you are.'

He's coming up.

Felix is depressurised

to 76,000 feet -

way beyond the Armstrong Line.

It's getting hot in here, Tom.

It's getting hot in here.

The water bubbling

is what would happen to his blood

without protection.

The higher you go,

the more the suit inflates,

so it's getting harder to move.

Plus your neck ring

is lifting your head.

INTERCOM:
Everything looks good.

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