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Daredevil Space Diver To Leap Toward World's First Supersonic Free-Fall From...

Felix BaumgartnerSven Hoffmann / Red Bull Here's Felix Baumgartner's plan: Float a balloon to 120,000 feet. Jump out. Break the sound barrier. Don't die. Simple, right? If Baumgartner, a world famous...

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Skydiving From Space

The Highest Dive In the 1950s, the U.S. Air Force dropped crash-test dummies from planes to try out parachute designs at Holloman Air Force base in New Mexico. Locals thought the bodies were aliens...

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New Reusable, Straight-Sided German Rocket Can Survive Re-Entry and Guide...

8-Sided Nose Cone This sharp rocket developed in Germany would be cheaper and faster to assemble than current launch vehicles, and it could safely re-enter the atmosphere. DLR via The LocalAs the...

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Undergrads at Colorado Crash a NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

Crashing Satellites at CU-BoulderImage courtesy LASP Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)Call it a crash course. A group of undergrads at the...

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Daredevil Space Diver To Leap Toward World's First Supersonic Free-Fall From...

Felix Baumgartner Sven Hoffmann / Red Bull Here's Felix Baumgartner's plan: Float a balloon to 120,000 feet. Jump out. Break the sound barrier. Don't die. Simple, right? If Baumgartner, a world famous...

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Skydiving From Space

Before famed skydiver Felix Baumgartner can jump out of his balloon at 120,000 feet, his ground crew will have to clear it with the Federal Aviation Administration. "Felix will be coming in like a...

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New Reusable, Straight-Sided German Rocket Can Survive Re-Entry and Guide...

8-Sided Nose Cone This sharp rocket developed in Germany would be cheaper and faster to assemble than current launch vehicles, and it could safely re-enter the atmosphere. DLR via The Local As the...

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Undergrads at Colorado Crash a NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

Crashing Satellites at CU-Boulder Image courtesy LASP Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado) Call it a crash course. A group of undergrads at the...

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Daredevil Space Diver To Leap Toward World's First Supersonic Free-Fall From...

Here's Felix Baumgartner's plan: Float a balloon to 120,000 feet. Jump out. Break the sound barrier. Don't die. Simple, right? If Baumgartner, a world famous base jumper and skydiver, pulls off the...

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Skydiving From Space

Before famed skydiver Felix Baumgartner can jump out of his balloon at 120,000 feet, his ground crew will have to clear it with the Federal Aviation Administration. “Felix will be coming in like a...

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New Reusable, Straight-Sided German Rocket Can Survive Re-Entry and Guide...

As the aerospace world prepares to say goodbye to the space shuttles, engineers are looking for cheaper, faster replacements. The German space agency is apparently ahead of…

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Undergrads at Colorado Crash a NASA Satellite Into The Ocean

Call it a crash course. A group of undergrads at the University of Colorado at Boulder got to participate in an unusual and awesome classroom activity on Monday, the…

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