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Monday, May 27, 2013

MAD SCIENCE NEWS -

REAL IRON MAN SUIT FOR SPACE TO EARTH JUMPING

 

 

This commercial space suit will include rocket boots, reality goggles, power gloves and movement gyros. The RL MARK VI will be ready for testing in 2016, and will enable people to make jumps from near-space, suborbital space, and low Earth orbit.
 
Felix Baumgartner managed to dive from 127,852 feet above the Earth in October 2012. It took him 4 minutes and 19 seconds before he opened his parachute.
 
Read more and see pictures of the suit and of Iron Man in action here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2330170/The-real-life-Iron-Man-suit-let-jump-space-land-WITHOUT-parachute-using-rocket-boots.html

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