Longest
space dive ever
Monday 15 October 2012
Today Austrian Felix Baumgartner broke the speed of sound in his jump
from the edge of space. But he did not set the world record for the longest
free fall. He managed to get up to a speed of 1,342 kilometers per hour during
the 4 minutes 19 seconds free fall.
Mission control said that it was a near perfect jump from the capsule. He
ended up jumping 39,044 meters. They were supposed to jump 36,576 meters but
they jumped 8,624 kilometers over what they should have jumped. They took almost
two hours to get up to the place where he was going to jump from. Baumgarter
had already broken a world record before he jumped. The world record was for
the highest balloon jump ever. The person he passed jumped 113,740 in 1961.
The launch of the jump coincided with the 65th
Anniversary of the American pilot Chuck Yeager who broke the speed of sound.
By Flynn Dudson
Such an amazing feat by the man! Can you imagine doing something this daunting Flynn?
ReplyDeleteA couple of points in regard to your writing-
In paragraph two you wrote, "They took almost two hours to get up to the place where he was going to jump from." When you wrote 'they' it implied that there was someone else up there with him, when there was not. This might confuse your reader, and is not factual.
secondly, you mentioned that he broke the record for the highest jump, by jumping 39,044 meters. However, you said that the previous jump in 1961 was 113,740. If this is meters then it is higher, so I assume the units of measurement were 'feet' back then. You need to include the unit of measurement to say 'feet', OR convert the 113,740 feet in to meters.
I am so glad the man survived! Do you kow that it was broadcast live, but with a 20 second delay just in case something went horrifically wrong. In doing that the broadcasters could stop the broadcast so that people wouldn't see it!
No are can't imagine no it. I think its a great achivement.He must have had to get that perfect or else it could have gone badly wrong.
DeleteI like how you didn't just put the four w's, but included some background information as well.
ReplyDeleteVenice
What a cool achievement. I also like how you added background information as well as the 4 Ws. Good reporting.
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