Just in case you missed the world record free fall from space, here it is in all it’s glory. Felix Baumgartner jumped from 128,000 feet up in the sky entering the Earth’s stratosphere (24 miles up), doing a free fall back down to Earth going as fast as 834.4 mph (Mach 1.24) breaking the speed of sound.
High-powered laser pointers can cause a lot of harm if you don’t know what your doing, or if you’re being malicious. Think of those news reports where people would aim laser pointers at pilots in an airplane. They are very powerful, and Wicked Lasers makes the S3 Krypton laser pointer, which actually has a range of up to 85 miles.
At the Pima Air & Space Museum, a team of engineers designed and built a 45 foot long paper airplane that flew in the Arizona desert, which makes it the world’s largest all-paper flying airplane. One of the engineers is 12 year old Arturo who won the Great Paper Airplane Fly-Off on January 14, 2012, and he played a key role in building the gigantic paper airplane.
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