adjournment of michel fournier s big jump in may NUMBER two attempts of launch failed the first because of the wind which got up prematurely and the second due to a technical hitch during the inflating of the envelope the team of the big jump folds luggage having waited up to the end for an opportunity for the launch of the balloon stratosphérique allowing to raise the capsule pressurized by michel fournier at more than NUMBER NUMBER metres in height as expected in the date of september NUMBER the jets stream strengthened in NUMBER kph announcing the imminent arrival of the winter and closing until next may the meteorological window favorable to a human raid in the stratosphere on the plains of saskatchewan the first snows are waited in the days which come meeting in all in may NUMBER 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 vederò si averò 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 