Felix Baumgartner has made his first test jump from space

Felix Baumgartner has made his first test jump from space for the Redbull Stratos team. The jump from 71,000 feet (over 21 km) was successful. At this altitude liquids begin to vapourize, even though the temperature is a freezing -61 Celsius. Baumgartner said that he could hardly move his hands due to the cold and said that this was something they would have to work on for his record attempt, at 120,000 feet.

One of our Space Ambassadors, and Director of the National Space Centre, Anu Ojha has written a blog to explain the science challenges and value. You can read my original article about the project here.

Tom Lyons, ESERO-UK Teacher Fellow