OpenSpace 4

Jump from space

Author: Mr. Giorgi Lobzhanidze

Address: Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Europe

Email: mailto:giorgi9@gmail.com

The parachuting is considered to be one of the most attracting, exciting and wonderful kinds of sport. From the beginning of the twentieth century it has been adopted by pilots for safe flight and later it became breathtaking kind of sport. Throughout the previous century there were developed many kinds of it, such as:

• Accuracy landing - Landing as close as possible to a target.

• BASE jumping - From buildings, antennas, bridges (spans) and cliffs (earth).

• Blade running - A kind of slalom with parachute.

• Big-ways - Formation skydiving with many people.

• Canopy formations - Making formations with other parachutists while under canopies. (Known also as canopy relative work or simply CRW)

• Canopy piloting - Also known as 'swooping'.

• Formation skydiving - Making formations during freefall. (Known also as relative work or simply RW)

• Freefall cinematography

• Freefall style

• Freeflying

• Freestyle skydiving

• Military Parachuting

• HALO/HAHO

• Treejumping

• Paraski

• Skysurfing - Skydiving with a board strapped to your feet.

• Wingsuit flying - Skydiving with a suit which provides extra lift.

In spite of such great choice for sky divers there probably could be one more, perhaps the very unusual kind of this sport-jump from the space.

Typically, parachuting occurs at the altitude of 4000 meters where the air is enough for breathing. In principle there is no difficulty to increase this altitude (and hence the time spent in Free-Fall), probably the sky diver will need to carry oxygen mask and warm cloth. However, we think that the space parachuting will be completely different thing.