The researchers said it provided invaluable data for the development of high-performance, high-altitude parachute systems, and that the lessons learned would inform the development of new ideas for emergency evacuation from vehicles, such as spacecraft, passing through the stratosphere.

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The researchers on the Red Bull Stratos project say it has already provided invaluable data for the development of high-performance, high-altitude parachute systems, and that the lessons learned will inform the development of new ideas for emergency evacuation from vehicles, such as spacecraft, passing through the stratosphere.

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The Red Bull Stratos scientists said the stunt had provided invaluable data for the development of high-performance, high-altitude parachute systems, and that the lessons learned would inform the development of new ideas for emergency evacuation from vehicles, such as spacecraft passing through the stratosphere.

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Several of the most promising ideas are being chosen for the students to now take into a new product development course this month.

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This development parallels recommendations that Dr. Waller made in his new book, Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War, in which he encouraged Muslim clerics to issue such fatwas, and urged the US government to publicize them globally through its public diplomacy machinery.

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