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by TylerE 5349 days ago
Pretty impressive, but that ain't space.
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Agreed. It's in the stratosphere and might be called 'near space', but it's not above the Karman line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kármán_line

It's above more than 99% of the atmosphere, very nearly space.

The pressure is around the same you'd find on Mars (on the ground), incidentally.