Catch a Falling Space Capsule
Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 7:21 pm
SALT LAKE CITY -- In a harrowing feat high over the Utah desert Wednesday, two helicopter stunt pilots will try to snatch a floating space capsule that holds "a piece of the sun" and bring it safely down.
Their biggest fear: What if they flub it on live TV? And that's entirely possible. The pilots rate it 8 or 9 on a difficulty scale of 10.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... _tophead_4
Their biggest fear: What if they flub it on live TV? And that's entirely possible. The pilots rate it 8 or 9 on a difficulty scale of 10.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0, ... _tophead_4