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SPACE DIVERS

Think of an extreme sport. What comes to mind? Skyscraper running? Fire Breathing? Now think of an extreme-extreme sport. How about: Space Diving?

An Austrian skydiver named Felix Baumgartner is jumping 120,000 feet above Earth. About 4 times as high an airplane goes. At that height, jumping off a plane, or in this case a shuttle, is a little more complicated than regular skydiving. He would need oxygen, and basically a spacesuit, and he needs more than just any space suit to do that; exactly why the David Clark manufacturing company created a special pressurized, temperature controlled, oxygenated suit to do the job. This suit is tough. Extremely-extremely tough.It has to face incredibly cold temperatures, extremely hot temperatures, keep the visor defogged, and go past the speed of sound. The jump is said to be attempted in summer.