Felix Baumgartner will have five cameras on him to record his historic skydive, whenever it finally takes place.
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Last update: 10:55 a.m. PT.
Felix Baumgartner wants to make history as the first person to achieve supersonic speed in freefall, but that won't happen today.
At about 10:45 a.m. PT, with Baumgartner in his capsule and his balloon just beginning to be inflated, the decision came to abort the mission because of gusting winds.
The liftoff had originally been scheduled to begin at about 5:30 a.m. PT, but was delayed as the weather conditions at the launch site in Roswell, N.M., failed to cooperate. Tomorrow's weather is apparently not looking favorable.
The daredevil's bid to go supersonic is coming after years of intense preparation and frustrating delays. And it's replete with a full array of high-tech gear, from the 2,900-pound "space capsule" slung under a 550-foot-tall (at launch) helium balloon that will carry him aloft in an approximately 2-hour ascent, to the custom-made full-pressure suit that will protect him from the very real dangers of the thin and frigid air.
Besides hitting the unprecedented freefall Mach 1 speed, the plan calls for Baumgartner to start his descent from higher than... [Read more]
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