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Space Diver Ready to Jump Into History:

It is billed as a small jump for a man…a big jump for humanity: The Le Grand Saut.

Skydiver Michel Fournier is back in gear and stepping up his campaign to jump — perhaps this month — from the stratosphere at an altitude of about 130,000 feet (40,000 meters) above the plains of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Thwarted in early attempts by technology snags, bad weather and funding, the plan for this 62-year old sky/space diver is to set no less than four world records:

– Altitude record for free-fall.
– Altitude record for human balloon flight.
– Time record for longest free-fall.
– Speed record for fastest free-fall.

I’m no expert, but it seems like falling 130,000 feet would take a really really long time. I hope Michel takes a book with him or something. He might get bored on the way down.