Red Bull Stratos - Latest Testing Revealed

Red Bull Stratos Team Announces Latest Test Results As Mission Moves Forward, Felix Baumgartner Discusses What?s Working, What Concerns Remain Santa Monica, Calif. ? June 29, 2010 ? As Red Bull Stratos grows increasingly near to realisation, the mission?s aeronautics experts today announce encouraging results from the latest high-altitude test jumps and step-off procedure tests. Mission pilot Felix Baumgartner himself acknowledges feelings of both satisfaction and apprehension whilst the team prepares to move into a new phase of testing. Choreographing the step-off, nailing the landing During the last week in May 2010, the Red Bull Stratos team conducted three important tests: - Step-off from the actual capsule - Bungee jumps in the pressurised space suit to practice step-off technique - High-altitude skydives in a fully pressurised space suit for the first time