CNN news:澳大利亞知名特技人為夢想挑戰(zhàn)高空一跳

Who waits to open his or her parachute , terminal velocity is around 150 miles per hour. Felix Baumgartner is expected to hit that at around 5,000 feet. Of course, by then, he'll already have dropped more than 100,000 feet.Brian Todd dives into the details on this story.

這個人等待著打開他或她的降落傘,末速度約為每小時150英里。費利克斯·鮑姆加特納預計將達到約5000英尺。當然,到那時,他將已經(jīng)下降了不止100000英尺。布萊恩·托德有這個故事的細節(jié)報道。

Later this summer, Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner will attempt the longest and highest freefall ever, from about 120,000 feet above sea level. That's more than 22 miles. If he pulls it off, he'll also break the speed of sound. No one's ever gone outside a plane or spacecraft to fly more than 690 miles per hour.

今年夏天晚些時候,澳大利亞蠻勇的費利克斯·鮑姆加特納將嘗試海平面120000英尺以上最長且最高的自由落體。那將超過22英里。如果他把它關掉,他還將打破聲音的速度。沒有人在飛機或太空船外面以超過每小時690英里的速度飛行。

Some of the more tense moments of this mission will be when Felix Baumgartner steps out of that capsule and into the stratosphere. At that point, the only thing protecting him from certain death will be this helmet and this high pressure space suit. This is similar to ones worn by U2 spy plane pilots. But those pilots are about 50,000 feet closer to Earth than Felix Baumgartner's going to be.

更緊張的一些時刻將會是這次任務的步驟，費利克斯·鮑姆加特納彈出座艙進入平流層。在這一點,唯一保護他免受死神威脅的將是這頂頭盔和這種高壓宇航服。這類似于U2間諜飛機飛行員的穿著。但那些飛行員接近地球距大約50000英尺，而費利克斯·鮑姆加特納也將進行挑戰(zhàn)。

There's only one person alive who can fathom all this, retired Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger, the man whose record Fearless Felix will try to break. Kittinger jumped from 102, 000 feet in 1960.

只有活著的人能夠理解這一切,退休的空軍上校喬·基廷格,他的記錄將被無所畏懼費利克斯嘗試打破。基廷格在1960年上升到了102000英尺。

I know exactly what he's about to go through.

我確切知道他將要去打破這一紀錄。

What is it?

這是什么?

He's going to be awed by being at that altitude and that view that he's got. But he's also awed with theresponsibility, because he's got a bunch of people on the ground been working their rear ends off for 4-5 years with the goal to get him down. And it's hostile up there. You don't want to hang around if you don't have to.

他要面對的是在高海拔。但他也因為責任令人敬畏,因為他有一個工作了五年的地上團隊,這個團隊的目的是為了把他弄下來。如果你根本不需要，那就不必大費周章。

Like Kittinger, Baumgartner will be taken to the stratosphere in a capsule pulled by a helium balloon. It's a massive undertaking called the Red Bull Stratos Project.

就像基辛格一樣,費利克斯將會乘坐一只氦氣球被帶到平流層。這是一個稱為紅牛斯特拉托斯項目艱巨的任務。

Your first time here, you're like a child in a candy store.

你第一次來這里時,你就像在糖果店里的一個孩子。

Oh, yes, I mean, I was amazed.

哦,是的,我的意思是,我大吃一驚。

As Felix, Joe and I move around the Air and Space Museum, Felix says the sight of John Glenn's and Yuri Gagarin's space suits scares him.

至于費利克斯，喬和我在航空航天博物館周圍四處走到, 費利克斯稱看到約翰·格倫和尤里·加加林的太空服把他嚇著了。

If you compare it to my suit, I'm not sure if I would have done this in the old days with that kind of equipment.

如果你把它和我的穿著比較,我不確定自己在過去的日子中是穿著這樣一身設備完成的。

Kittinger is now a consultant on the project, who's in Baumgartner's ear on the test jumps.

基廷格現(xiàn)在是這個項目的咨詢師,他是鮑姆加特納準備測試跳躍的保障者。

How important is hearing his voice going to be to you when you're up there?

重要的是當你在那里時如何聽到他的聲音?

It is extremely important, because this is what I figured on my last test jump when I was going up. Sometimes we lost communication for a couple of seconds. And immediately you can feel how lonely you feel, you know. So I wanted to hear that voice because I'm so used to this. Every time I'd get practicing on the ground, Joe was talking to me. So I'm so used to that voice and it makes me feel safe.

這是非常重要的,因為這是我認為在自己上次測試跳的時候,我正在上升。有時候我們在幾秒鐘內(nèi)失去了聯(lián)系。你可以感覺到, 你感到即刻的孤獨感,你明白的。所以我想聽到聲音,因為我已經(jīng)對此感到習慣。每次我都要在地上練習,喬和我說話。所以我很熟悉這個聲音,這讓我覺得很安全。

A mission that will obviously be tough to top, and it doesn't look like Felix Baumgartner's going to try to. He says after this jump, he'll pursue his long-time dream of becoming a helicopter rescue pilot -- Brian Todd, CNN,Washington.

這顯然將是一項艱巨的認為,它看起來不像是費利克斯·鮑姆加特納想要去嘗試的。他稱在這次跳躍后,他會追求自己長期以來成為一個救援直升機飛行員的的夢想—CNN,布萊恩·托德,華盛頓報道。