No, just a crane holding up his capsule. The baloon's not inflated at all. Watch it live here.
Live Now! - Red Bull Stratos - freefall from the edge of space - YouTube
Aborted due to wind
Send in Kay. " How do you feel Felix? Are you off to change your underpants now? Are you disappointed?
I bet old Felix there has no fear whatsoever. He can't have to be doing it in the first place. There's people like that I believe.
My next door neighbour when I was growing up was a small time loon. Used to climb every tree going, the higher and harder the better, and test out every single rickety bike ramp that any kid on the estate set up out of random bricks and old planks of wood. He was like our willing guinea pig. Ironically, the only time I ever saw him injured was when he slipped walking normally down an ordinary grass bank and broke his arm