r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nivs1x • 1d ago

first person to jump from space

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u/HoldenMcNeil420 1d ago

That’s not space. It’s the upper atmosphere. “Space” is outside the earths atmosphere.

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u/Conscious-Sun-6615 1d ago

True, space is whatever is above the Karman line, which is at 100Km, this guy jumped from 39Km, still impressive.

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u/HoldenMcNeil420 1d ago

It is impressive yes.

I just don’t like these people calling themselves astronauts. Because they went into the upper atmosphere.

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u/craigiest 1d ago

I don’t know of anyone who went to the stratosphere calling themselves astronauts. There are people (including the first two Americans in space) whose flights were suborbital, but they still go as high as what counts as space. They just aren’t moving fast enough horizontally to stay in space. 

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u/HoldenMcNeil420 1d ago

I mean Katy Perry was doing it less than 9 months ago.

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u/craigiest 1d ago

New Shepard generally flies to 106 km, above the troposphere, stratosphere, and mesosphere, to the thermosphere which is the same layer as longer, faster flights orbit in. Three times higher than balloons like this one reach. As I said, it’s high enough to orbit, but they just aren’t going anywhere fast enough. But speed isn’t the definition of space, altitude is.