Anybody watching the idiot jump out from space?

[Twitchin Kitten]

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With all the prep he had to do to get out of that capsule, I just don't see how this can be an emergency measure to bail out at low orbit. Astronaut suits would have to become very cumbersome again and the possibility of any of them being in any position to properly inflate, pressurize and all the other things he had to do to get out would not be possible unless the "emergency" is a very low level one where time is on your side. At the rate of speed rockets go out, I don't see that happening. This guy was in a balloon that took hours to get up there, not seconds. Most emergencies in space crafts at that altitude have been explosions and you're left looking for the remains anyway.