I read a very interesting article in the July 07 issue of Popular Science (yes I am also a science geek) entitle "High Dive." It is also available in the magazine database that CCPL subscribes to. The article is about two men in the aerospace industry who are designing a space suit that can be used for skydiving from orbit, also called space diving. They are designing it with two purposes in mind: 1) extreme sports; 2) safety, one of the designers wife died in the shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
The thought of skydiving doesn't interest me much nowadays, but the thought of plummeting to earth from 300,000 feet sounds exhilarating.
If you get a chance take a look at the issue because the images of the suit look awesome.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
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