Some other odds and ends from the crowded timeline: Late in the 10-day mission, the crew will release a 19-inch diameter sphere coverer with aluminum mirrors.

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This was not a luxury afforded to Baumgartner and his capsule, however, which is a 6-foot diameter pressure sphere.

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