Red Bull Stratos Space Dive Capsule Sky Dive Record Capsule. Red Bull Stratos Mission capsule landing site. Balao de helio. Gallery. Red Bull Stratos 2012- The Capsule – Video. The Red Bull Stratos pressurized capsule is the... • Red Bull Stratos. Red Bull Stratos 2012 Capsule set for take off. The capsule set to carry Felix Baumgartner to the edge of space is officially mission ready. The Red Bull Stratos science team has confirmed that the capsule delivering Austrian sportsman Felix Baumgartner to the edge of space for his record-breaking freefall attempt is mission ready. Attached to a helium balloon, the capsule – which took five years to develop and weighs 2,900 pounds fully loaded – will be Baumgartner’s life-support system during his three-hour ascent to 120,000 feet.
Strapped into a chair custom made for his space suit, he’ll face a control panel of 89 switches and one clear round door. While that door gives Baumgartner the best view in the stratosphere, it also puts just half an inch of acrylic between him and the edge of space. When he rolls it open 23 miles above the Earth, he will exit and attempt to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall. Capsule Components CageThe cage surrounds the pressure sphere and supports the capsule overall. Blog. Packing up the nearly 30 million cubic foot balloon after landing. The crush pads at the bottom of the capsule protected the rest of the body. The side panel was removed by the crew for inspections. Photo: Jon Wells Tracking the capsule's route on its way up to 128,100 ft ATA recovery crew.
Mission complete. Capsule heading home. “Joe Kittinger’s gondola in 1960 was like a Model T – practical and very durable…with very sophisticated, sensitive equipment and all the ‘luxuries’ of cutting-edge technology. You might say the pressurized capsule is Jon Wells’ other child. Once the recovery crew spotted the floating capsule east of Roswell, New Mexico on Oct. 14, Jon Wells & Travis Moore ran to its side for inspections. So by now you may be wondering how the balloon and capsule make it back to earth, and what will happen next. The capsule parachute, which had been incorporated in the ‘flight train’ between the capsule and the balloon, immediately deployed. Next, balloon retrieval. Capsule. Aviation pioneer Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team have been preparing for years to break the record for highest-altitude jump, eclipsing a mark set more than 52 years ago by Col.
Joe Kittinger. The capsule, which at about 1.315 kilograms/2900 pounds weighs a little bit more than a VW Beetle, was damaged in a hard landing following Baumgartner's 2nd test jump from a near-record altitude of 97,145 ft / 29,610 meters in July 2012. On September 24, 2012 the repaired capsule underwent testing in an altitude chamber at Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas. The capsule was exposed to the extreme conditions it will face in the unforgiving environs of the stratosphere. A central goal of the Red Bull Stratos project is to collect valuable data for science that could ultimately improve the safety of space travel and enable high-altitude escapes from spacecraft. A crew of twelve personnel were waiting to recover the equipment. Next up was balloon retrieval. Hop Inside the Red Bull Stratos Space-Jump Capsule. Today, weather permitting, daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt a 60,000-foot-high dry run of a world-record-breaking space jump planned for this summer.
The Austrian BASE jumper will don a spacesuit and ride a 60-story-tall balloon above Roswell, N.M. When he reaches 60,000 feet, he’ll jump out and hope for the best. The stunt is the first of two tests for Baumgartner before he attempts the space dive from 120,000 feet this summer. During that fall, Baumgartner could reach supersonic speeds in the whisper-thin reaches of the upper atmosphere.
"There are so many buttons [because] you have to maintain a special environment in the capsule," Baumgartner told Popular Mechanics last month. Many of the 40 engineers, scientists and aviators on the Red Bull Stratos team contributed ideas and sweat to craft the high-tech gondola. Take a claustrophobic tour of the Stratos space-jump capsule. Felix Baumgartner.