Two Scary Incidents Almost Forced Felix Baumgartner To Abort His Mission [View all]

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Two Scary Incidents Almost Forced Felix Baumgartner To Abort His Mission

by Dina Spector at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/felix-baumgartner-breaks-the-sound-barrier-2012-10

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First, the heater in his visor wasn't working. This caused to his visor to fog up when he exhaled.

"On our checklist of things we had this as a mission abort. If you cannot see anything you cannot leave the capsule,” he said.

Second, immediately after bunny-hopping off the capsule Baumgartner "was supposed to get himself into a delta position — head down, arms back - as soon as possible," explains the BBC.

Instead, the Austrian went into a flat spin and video footage shows him tumbling multiple times.

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