62-Year-Old Man Attempts Hara-Kiri by Jumping from 25 Miles Up

A 62 - yr - old Frenchman is giving his attempt on the world costless - dusk platter one last try in the skies above Saskatchewan . Michel Fournier has spent $ 13.25 million essay to leap from 25 miles above the earth ’s control surface and break the human race free - fall record set by USAF tryout pilot Joe Kittinger in 1960 . But first he has to get up there .

The retire colonel from the Gallic army reserves last gave it a go in 2003 , and was sit in his insulated capsule just minutes away from take - off when the balloon that was going to take him up to his jump stratum detonate . Now , with a novel , three - ply balloon that is , according to the manager of the Canadian side of operations , Claude - Jean Hurel , “ really substantial , ” although it has yet to carry a human being , Michel has a three - week window in which to make the jump . Thank Eden it is always in August , when there is no other news program to write about .

Fournier has been training for the free - declination attempt since 1988 when , as a 41 - year - honest-to-goodness , he was selected to be on the Herm

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s bird , part of the Gallic national blank space program which was set off due to budget cutting . Undeterred , Fournier leave the military and raised money by selling off all his worldly self-possession to buy the abandoned equipment from the French government .

aid and abet by various aerospace scientists , Fournier has maintain rigorously in shape , making over 8,500 parachute drops , spending sentence in hyperbaric pressure chambers and infrigidation units — even keeping his handwriting and feet in wintry water to get used to the sub - zero conditions he will have to die hard . At 40,000 metres , the temperature is around minus 100

centigrade , and the gentle wind is so sparse , Fournier must breathe in pure oxygen for hours beforehand , for get rid of the nitrogen in his rake .

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Once the balloon has contain his capsule up to the jump pinnacle , our hardy sexagenarian must jump off head first out of the receptacle and loose - fall for seven minutes . When he hits 1,000 metres , he get out the slide — if he still can — and savor a leisurely descent of eight minutes . Before ripcord prison term , he will be break out the intelligent barrier at speeds up to 932 mph , and enduring temperatures as low as minus 115

Like many untested boy , Fournier has always wanted to be an astronaut . “ My passion has always been to vaporize , to jump , ” he recite an interviewer . “ My objective is test out a way to save astronauts . ” Perhaps you should begin with yourself , mate . Bonne Chance , Michel , and permit ’s hope you do n’t run out of blow before you ’ve stop blowing up the balloon . [ Canada.com ]

Lesdilley