[null, {"document_url": "http://macrocosm-magbook.blogspot.com/2007/06/would-you-like-to-skydive-from-orbit.html", "unformatted_src": "http://bp0.blogger.com/_O3F0fH5AGXQ/RoDcRjgI4dI/AAAAAAAABcs/TYVb0OrRleI/s400/spacedivers_main_485.jpg", "src": "http://bp0.blogger.com/_O3F0fH5AGXQ/RoDcRjgI4dI/AAAAAAAABcs/TYVb0OrRleI/s400/spacedivers_main_485.jpg", "formatted_filename": "spacedivers main"}, {"document_url": "http://macrocosm-magbook.blogspot.com/2007/06/would-you-like-to-skydive-from-orbit.html", "unformatted_src": "http://bp2.blogger.com/_O3F0fH5AGXQ/RoDcLDgI4cI/AAAAAAAABck/Zy8CNAi-1jg/s200/spacedivers_b_170.jpg", "src": "http://bp2.blogger.com/_O3F0fH5AGXQ/RoDcLDgI4cI/AAAAAAAABck/Zy8CNAi-1jg/s200/spacedivers_b_170.jpg", "formatted_filename": "spacedivers b"}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://macrocosm-magbook.blogspot.com/2007/06/would-you-like-to-skydive-from-orbit.html", "unformatted_src": "http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3F0fH5AGXQ/SnJBNiWxjjI/AAAAAAAAG5o/Eysr5YwrJt8/S150/_AUTOIMAGES_AU11888lg.jpg", "src": "http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_O3F0fH5AGXQ/SnJBNiWxjjI/AAAAAAAAG5o/Eysr5YwrJt8/S150/_AUTOIMAGES_AU11888lg.jpg", "formatted_filename": "AUTOIMAGES AU lg", "alt_text": "Today's Great Deal!", "rendered_width": 150, "rendered_height": 150}, null, null, null, null, null, null]


Would You Like to Skydive from Orbit? Have you ever dreamed of skydiving from orbit? Yes, this means jumping out of a spaceship in space to return to earth with a parachute! This has been described in one of the Star Trek novels, authored by William Shatner, that chronicles the later adventures of Captain Kirk. But that's fiction. This is real. A company called Orbital Outfitters is designing a suit that will serve the purpose, either for recreation or emergency vehicular escape purposes.

Rick Tumlinson, founder of the Space Frontier Foundation and Jonathan Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon whose wife, astronaut Laurel Clark, died in the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, are behind it all. They are designing a suit that can withstand extreme environments---from the airless chill of space to the burning heat of reentry. Indeed, this daredevil spacesuit might just as well be Iron Man's costume.
A new sport called spacediving is envisioned to become popular once commercial flights into space become commonplace. The developers say it will be the ultimate extreme sport.
Posted by alvinwriter at 2:17 AM Labels: Captain Kirk, extreme sport, Jonathan Clark, Laurel Clark, Orbital Outfitters, Rick Tumlinson, skydive from orbit, spacediving, William Shatner


