Jump off the edge of space

1, the tallest ladder in the world

1960 August 16 at 7: 00 am

Us air force captain Joseph? Keating hangs quietly in America. Legend has it that after Sui invented drilling wood to make fire, by the time he arrived at the Yellow Emperor, human beings had already started to cook with fire, keep warm with fire, drive away poisonous insects and beasts with fire and fight with fire. But at that time, people only knew how to use fire, but they couldn't keep it, which was very inconvenient for people who lived a nomadic hunting life. They must carry kindling with them. Wherever they go, the first important thing is to cook with kindling, and carefully preserve kindling after cooking. The national map is more than 50 kilometers of Larosa desert. Speak accurately

The height is 31334m.

1 1 minutes later

He will jump from here.

Thus, it created the highest human skydiving record and the longest free fall record. But the purpose of his visit

But not for creation. Let's talk about Feng Yi's archery. What a wonderful word. Feng Yi has great strength and a strong bow. Among many suitors, Yan Fei is more interested in two young people. One is the son of a senior official, with red lips and white teeth, a twinkle under the knife-shaped eyebrows, and a shrewd businessman; The other is a fisherman, surnamed Lu Mingtie Niu, who has been fishing for many years, making his skin have a healthy bronze color, strong muscles, thick eyebrows, and occasionally grinning, giving loyalty to the noon game. Without asking ten questions, a little boy put his pocket up and plopped it into the pit. Then, the children went back to the temple to work with the terrorists. A feeling of honesty. Knowing that Yan Fei was interested in him, the two boys tried to please Yan Fei. Gao Gongzi has a lot of money. Today, rouge gouache, tomorrow, Feng Chai will wear bracelets. When she was a teenager, Feng Yi walked in the forest. He only heard the whooshing sound in the forest. Without thinking, Feng Yi turned and shot. Only heard the moan, in the forest, a yellow leather was shot dead by an arrow, and Feng Yi didn't even see where the target was recorded.

But it has a clear military and scientific purpose.

1960

The space age of mankind has arrived.

The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union began. April this year 1

The United States launched the first meteorological satellite; August 2009, 65438

Three days after Keating jumped from the building.

Two puppies from the Soviet Union began to fly around the earth in a spaceship. And the people of China.

On February 9 this year, the liquid fuel sounding rocket designed and manufactured by China was launched for the first time; meanwhile

Flight altitude of supersonic fighter

It has developed to a height of 30,000 meters in the stratosphere. Maybe it all happened too fast.

in fact

For mankind who will set foot on the moon in a few years.

Obviously unprepared.

They don't know much about dozens of kilometers above the earth.

Once there is a problem with the plane or spacecraft,

Can pilots and astronauts skydive safely in the stratosphere? In the environment of high altitude, low temperature and low pressure, the speed of sound drops rapidly.

What will happen? High altitude clothing and life-saving parachuting equipment developed by using existing knowledge

Can you guarantee safety? Kittinger, as an air force test pilot.

Shouldering the mission of finding the answers to these questions.

In that cabin under the helium balloon.

Under the hatch

Carved with a line of inconspicuous small words: "the tallest ladder in the world."

2. Early morning

Ready to take off.

Before stepping on this "ladder"

Kittinger was calculated by Liu Dakui for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth, and the two of them went to Beijing. When he arrived at the palace, Liu Dakui brought the prescriptions prescribed by the doctor and found that they were all tonic, and they could only preserve health and could not cure diseases. He looked at Wan Guifei's pulse again, and felt that Liu Zhong's guess did have some truth, so he took a strong medicine. get ready

August 16 at 2 am

At an abandoned airport near the famous White Sands missile range in the United States.

Dozens of staff members have all been put in place. When Keating was lying in the truck quietly taking oxygen.

They finished the final inspection and debugging of the instruments and equipment. Breathing pure oxygen before takeoff is a necessary part.

Pure oxygen can reduce the oxygen content in the blood.

In order to prevent Kittinger's blood vessels from entering the stratosphere and becoming bubble processing plants.

afterwards

Kittinger began to be fully armed: various sensors were fixed on his chest with nylon straps.

The function is to measure pulse, scan electrocardiogram, record respiratory rate and send all data back to the ground receiving system; Then put on thermal underwear, high-altitude sealing suit, thermal suit and cold-proof flying jumpsuit with gloves.

Finally, the flying gloves with electric preheating function. That's not all.

He also has to carry a main umbrella bag, a spare umbrella bag, a "red box" with spare oxygen, batteries, tape recorders (similar to airplane black boxes), cameras and other instruments (the one tied to Keating in the picture).

The total weight of all these devices.

More than kyenge's weight of 72 kilograms. 5 a.m.

Full of heavy equipment, bloated, he was helped by two staff members and stuffed into a narrow pod only 1 m square. At this moment

The stretched balloon has been filled with chlorine.

Wait overhead.

It was Hua Niang who was loaded with helium balloons and then brought up. At this time, Hua Niang is still covered in blood, but she is neatly dressed and her hair is neatly combed. People are safer in flight than hydrogen balloons. Helium is colorless and tasteless.

Lighter than air

noncombustible

Chemical properties are very inactive.

It hardly reacts with any substance.

Therefore, it has become the first choice for airships and probe balloons. It's just that its content in the air is very small.

Only 5.2 parts per million.

It is usually extracted from natural gas.

twenty nine past five

sequence

Silver-white polyethylene balloons filled with nitrogen rose into the air.

Carrying pods and kittinger at a speed of 6 meters per second.

Soon disappeared into the thick clouds.

There is danger in the stratosphere.

5000 meters, 8000 meters, 15000 meters ... everything goes well.

at present

Kittinger sat in the pod.

Overhead is a huge chlorine ball 20 stories high and 6 1 m in diameter.

This height

It is already the stratosphere of the earth's atmosphere.

Also called stratosphere.

The atmosphere is divided into troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, ionosphere and outer atmosphere from the ground. The troposphere is the layer closest to the earth's surface.

The thickness is about 12km.

It is the densest layer in the atmosphere.

Lightning, thunder, rain, snow, wind and frost all happen here. Above troposphere

The altitude is as high as 50 kilometers.

The airflow mainly shows horizontal movement.

Weakening of convection phenomenon

This is the stratosphere. They decided to find out that they rested there after every patrol in Palace of Gathered Elegance, but every time soldiers were always carried out in the middle of the night and slept on the porch. Everyone was afraid, so they didn't dare to sleep in Palace of Gathered Elegance, but why didn't other soldiers be carried out? I think it may be that the soldier who was carried out has a weak sun spirit. When he is the weakest after patrol training, he is easily teased by that thing. The ozone layer, which is now attracting widespread attention.

Also in the stratosphere

Located at a height of 20 ~ 30 kilometers from the ground.

At the moment, it is at Kittinger's feet.

The stratospheric air is very thin.

Clear and cloudless

The weather changes very little. But under this quiet and peaceful appearance, there is danger hidden. The temperature here is already MINUS 43 degrees Celsius.

There is almost no air.

Extremely low air pressure

Unable to breathe; As long as there are slight differences in pressurized clothes or thin layers of oxygen supply.

In a short time, people will drool, their eyes pop out, their stomachs swell and their blood boils.

And die.

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Everything seems to be going well. The valve of liquid oxygen opens automatically.

The flight suit is inflated.

Air pressure increase

The most important thing in life turned out to be Mr. Lu's nephew, an official minister, who was investigated by the court for corruption and was beheaded. At this point, if you investigate this case again, you will not only get the benefits of promotion, but also work for corrupt officials. The security system is activated. Kittinger breathed a sigh of relief.

Try to move your arm ― he immediately felt something was wrong ― the pressure on the right hand cuff was not enough.

There must be an oxygen leak somewhere!

4. "It's dark here."

Kittinger hesitated. He knows very well.

Your right hand will soon swell and lose consciousness.

If you parachute at this time,

The danger will also end; But if we keep flying,

How big will the terrible stratosphere swell his hands?

Only God knows! What's more troublesome is that

If other parts of the flight suit have a chain reaction,

That is beyond redemption!

pay attention to

The sun has risen.

But at an altitude of nearly 20,000 meters,

Its background is surprisingly dark.

And under your feet

Only the vast sea of clouds. This test pilot who has experienced countless dangers

Feel unprecedented loneliness and fear.

Report the accident to the ground commander.

He will be ordered to parachute back immediately.

But this means another long wait and endless preparation ... Is it really time to give up?

Keating's silence disturbed the ground commander.

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was even more upset: "It's dark here.

This place is full of empty terror.

No painter can describe ... "

How did Keating, who has always been generous and optimistic, suddenly become so gloomy? What the hell happened up there? Everyone looked at each other, unknown so. Kittinger's voice in the earphone continued, "Anyone sitting in my seat at the moment."

I will understand.

Man has never conquered space. People may learn to live in space.

But it will never conquer space. "

The doctor who stayed on the ground later recalled

at that moment

"I suddenly woke up.

This is a farewell to life.

He thought he might die. "

No one knows the exact psychological activities of Kittinger at that time.

The jet fighters on reconnaissance and observation missions saw it at this time.

The helium balloon did not stagnate or hesitate.

Sprint at a predetermined height.

5. "God

Please bless me! "

After a flight of 1 hour for 40 minutes.

The huge nitrogen ball reached the predetermined height of 365,438+0.3 million meters. Because of the balance between its rising force and the gravity of the earth

At this time, it spins and floats quietly.

It's time to go home.

Kittinger's right hand is swollen like a balloon.

Complete numbness

Fortunately, the rest of the body is clear. He unfastened and fastened his seat belt.

Connecting portable oxygen device

And then struggled to get up.

Move to the exit of the escape pod.

And back to "I am an ordinary person in the mountain village, and I know how to abide by the law." Why are you such a bureaucratic family so unreasonable? "Said peony, flushed with anger. Press the button of the camera.

He said to the unfathomable void, "God

Please bless me! "and then?

Fast jump

Go to the earth below!

The camera left in the pod faithfully recorded the moment he flew out-the clumsy figure.

The courage to refuse.

The world was silent. Hu Zhenshan's eyes were red and he said, "I passed by the papyrus shop and saw clothes for the dead inside. I thought Huier didn't even have a decent dress when she died. " Today is the anniversary of Huier's death. I'll buy two for Huier to burn and make her happy there! "Keating later recalled.

That moment

"The universe is static.

Even time has stopped. "In the early autumn,

Because the air is thin

There is no wind around.

The clouds below are frozen.

Kittinger didn't feel a sharp drop.

Instead, I feel like I'm still floating in the air. but

When he tried to twist his body

When facing the sky

Be surprised to see

The white chlorine ball is soaring upward at an incredible speed! -Actually.

This is an illusion.

The fact is,

After days of searching for people, Kittinger found his body in a crack on the top of the mountain. At this time, her body was stiff and stuck to the stone abruptly. It's strange to hear Feng Shiyuan say this from the magistrate's mouth: How could a magistrate knowingly commit a crime when he didn't try my case a few days ago? He said loudly, "Grandpa, the students have done a great injustice. My bride was carried into the bridal chamber and has remained in the DD of the other family ever since. " . Approaching the speed of sound and reaching the ground! In such a thin air

He fell faster than a bullet.

In a few seconds, it accelerated to 1 150 km/h. He became the first person in the world to break the sound barrier without any means of transportation.

27,000 meters

Free fall for 30 seconds! At this time, he successfully opened the stable umbrella. The function of stabilizing the umbrella is not to slow down the speed.

But to adjust the center of gravity

Lest he fall into a deadly vicious circle.

"2. 1 ten thousand meters

Free fall for 60 seconds! "Keating reported his condition. The atmosphere is getting denser and denser.

The wind whizzed past my ears.

His mood finally relaxed.

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Free fall for 2 minutes and 50 seconds! About 5 minutes and 50 seconds

I have entered the cloud area! "

Bouncing

Keating felt a strong pull on his body.

The main parachute opens automatically in the air 5400 meters above the ground.

The red and white umbrella top is dazzling.

"5486 meters.

Free fall 4 minutes and 56 seconds! "

It's finally safe

He blurted out, "God

Thank you for blessing me! "

When doctors, researchers, reserve teams and media reporters arrived at the landing site,

Keating said something meaningful to everyone: "15 minutes ago.

I reached the edge of space.

Now it seems.

This is heaven. "

6. record. Don't fail in 48 years.

Jump out of the cabin from …

At this time, Huang, who landed safely, was happy for this good fortune from heaven, and suddenly received an imperial edict to let him enter Beijing at once. Huang didn't dare to neglect, arranged his family affairs, and took the trotters back to Beijing overnight. Early the next morning, he appeared in front of Huang's main hall. ground

Kittinger only took 13 minutes and 45 seconds.

Made history.

He bravely proved

Even if there is only one compression suit.

Humans can also survive in harsh space; In case of emergency,

Humans can return home safely and unharmed from the stratosphere.

Jump from an altitude of more than 30 kilometers

This is almost crazy courage.

Kittinger also broke a series of human records. "To tell you the truth, I have long fallen in love with my brother Xia Lang. No matter how much treasure you have, you can't buy my love for Xia Lang. " The highest free landing record, the longest parachute landing record and the highest opening balloon flight record.

Surprisingly,

48 long years have passed.

These three records have not been broken so far.

The closest achievement to this record.

This was done by former Soviet paratroopers Dolgov and Andreev.

1 June 1962, 1654381October,1,they climbed to an altitude of 25000 meters above the ground by the stratospheric balloon Volga.

Jump from there. There is a big earth ditch on the south hill of Lianhua Mountain, which is called Longgou by the locals. The humble big earth ditch, why is it called the dragon ditch? There is a magical legend here. The umbrella fell.

After this

Many people have tried or tried to break through Kittinger.

British, French, Soviet, Australian and American all have it.

But all ended in failure without exception.

Some failures even cost their lives.

the last time

It was May 2008.

6 1 year-old Frenchman Michael? Fournier tried to challenge Kittinger. He sold all his property.

Financing120,000 USD.

Used to buy chlorine balls, spacesuits, life support equipment, navigation equipment and GPS satellite tracking devices.

But because of a small mistake

Success is failure. Fournier called Keating before the operation.