today a french officer called michel fournier is supposed to get in a NUMBER metre tall helium balloon ride it up to the edge of space NUMBER km altitude and jump out his fall should last NUMBER NUMBER minutes and reach speeds of mach NUMBER NUMBER he hopes to open his parachute manually at the end although with an automatic backup if he is NUMBER seconds from the ground and still hasn t opened it r obquote veder si aver si grossi li coglioni come ha il re di franza let s see if i ve got as much balls as the king of france pope julius ii NUMBER january NUMBER 