One giant leap for….

I guess because I like to ride in small planes and helicopters, I was a last-minute observer this morning to watch live coverage of the first human to break the sound barrier, skydiving from the edge of space.  Felix Baumgartner is today’s Evel Knievel times 10, today’s techy science project and today’s knucklehead.  The 43-year-old leapt out of his balloon-like capsule from 24 miles up and, reaching 833 miles, broke the barrier and safely parachuted down, landing almost in a run.  What’s pretty cool is, after a couple days weather delay, Baumgartner’s feat came on the 65th anniversary of the day that U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to officially break the sound barrier in a jet.