Sunday, April 11, 2010

Extremely cool pressure suit and deliberately jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Sweet gear.
Skydiving is dangerous -- but not nearly as dangerous as skydiving from a plane in outer space.

That can kill you. The temperature can freeze your body, and the lack of air pressure can boil your blood.

Nonetheless, an Austrian daredevil named Felix Baumgartner plans to take the 23-mile plunge from the edge of space. And in the process, he hopes to become the first parachutist to break the sound barrier, plummeting toward the ground at 760 miles per hour.

(By John R. Quain - FOXNews.com)