地球的力量 第2集 大氣(5)自由落體

Not in a rocket, but in a giant helium balloon,

不是乘坐火箭,而是坐一個很大的氦氣球

to determine the risks of high-altitude bailoutsfrom air or spacecraft.

冒險在接近太空的地方進行跳傘

The balloon took Kittinger over 19 miles into thestratosphere.

他到達了19英里(31千米),高達平流層

That's twice the height that I reached.

這是我到達高度的兩倍

Then Kittinger did something astonishing.

然后奇廷格做了一些令人很驚訝的事情

He jumped! This is the actual moment.

他跳下來了!這是一個真實的時刻

He fell to Earth

他落到了地球上

reaching a speed of almost 620 miles an hour,

速度達到了1000公里每小時

and yet he had no sense of speed.

但是他幾乎什么都感覺不到

I had no ripple of the fabric on my pressure suit

我的耐壓服上的布沒有褶皺

and it was a very weird sensation.

這是一種超自然的感覺

I had no visual reference of anything

我看不到任何東西做為參考

so I thought I was really suspended in space.

所以我覺得像是停留在太空里

Kittinger had fallen at great speed

奇廷格下降得如此之快

as he plunged toward the troposphere, thick with clouds,

當他穿過對流層厚厚的濃云

floating over a New Mexico desert.

飄過了新墨西哥沙漠

Finally, he opened his parachute.

最后，他打開了降落傘

His jump remains the longest freef all in history.

這仍是歷史上最高的自由落體