{"id":297,"date":"2006-07-15T01:51:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2006-08-19T02:06:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T07:06:23","slug":"space-diver-prepares-for-big-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Space Diver Prepares For Big Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0an earlier\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=184\">post<\/a>, I had discussed the idea of skydiving from space.\u00a0 Michael Laine from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort<\/a> had commented\u00a0about &#8220;a business proposal that is being worked up, with our balloon based lifter test platforms that carry people up to about 5 miles, and they can jump from there\u2026 it would be a wild ride, and it should be possible within 2-3 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/060713_big_jump.html\">article<\/a> from Space.com about someone who wants to parachute \/ free-fall from an altitude of 25 miles.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll just watch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0an earlier\u00a0post, I had discussed the idea of skydiving from space.\u00a0 Michael Laine from LiftPort had commented\u00a0about &#8220;a business proposal that is being worked up, with our balloon based lifter test platforms that carry people up to about 5 miles, and they can jump from there\u2026 it would be a wild ride, and it should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}