Captain Joe Kittinger jump`t from a ballon over 20 miles up in the thin atosphere in 1960.
I would like to know, what happened to the balloon.?
Is it still there.?
2007-11-28 06:00:30 · 3 answers · asked by nick b 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It was open at the bottom and rose to a higher altitude with the loss of weight then, I believe floated back down as the helium leaked and the capsule ended up on earth with a lot of thin plastic shredded around it. Some of the others the capsule was released and parachuted, but not, as I recall, his. When capsule is released the balloon is shredded in the jet stream eventually.
2007-11-28 06:09:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have gone higher after the weight it was carrying was reduced, but ultimately the helium would leak out and the balloon would come down. They may have had a radio system to command it to come down. Anyway, it came down in the end.
2007-11-28 14:09:24 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it probably lost its air over a few days and plummeted to an ocean. i wanna know what happened to the good captain! did he make it back alive.
2007-11-28 14:08:50 · answer #3 · answered by Julia D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋