the thought of an astronaut punching out of a rocket doing Mach 5000, let alone having enough warning to do so, is silly...but then again, if you push off from the space station at JUST the right angle....
convenient excuse to sell product and look good doing it.
Yeah, call a spade a spade. It's a record attemt sponsored by a non-space affiliated group
I don't think space suits helped, or would have helped either Challenger, Colombia, Apollo 13, or AS-204. But I'm not current on all my space disasters...
Could you develop a drogue chute to make a sub-orbital fall survivable? Back in the SR-71 and U-2 days this could have been a valid question for pilot safety. Now, I think the only craft in that zone would be hypersonic ram-jet planes (at Mach 7+) or spacecraft leaving/entering the atmosphere (at Mach "HOLY SH&T")
