Remember Felix Baumgartner? The guy who jumped from a balloon 24 miles up? New video;

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16. I did a quick google. She did help write and give several jump related papers at the meeting

of the aerospace medical association (ASMA) about medical risks and mitigation for the jump, among other topics. Part of the point of the jump was to learn what to do for situations in which people might have to bail out at high altitudes if something goes wrong during space flight.

As head field doctor, she was the lead on the medical recovery ground team--the team that was to rush over and check him and deal with any emergency situation if it came up. She was also part of the medical team that figured out necessary modifications for the monitoring equipment he was hooked up to during the jump.

She was present at every preliminary jump. Ironically she had to miss the final jump--because that took place on the very day she landed back in the US after a month in Moscow, where she was the physician for our American astronauts as they trained on the Soyuz space capsule prior to their trip to the space station.

Frustrating, of course, after being so involved all through the project, but she was needed in Moscow that month.

I have to sleep right now, but tomorrow I will send you a link to a pic of her and another doctor as they observe one of the preliminary test jumps--which were nit as high, but which were scary high anyway!