Recently we talked [ here ] about Michael Fournier and his desire to set several free falling records by jumping from a pod 25 miles up.  We are all excited about this, and hope that everything goes great for him, but apparently his balloon is a little too excited and left with out him.

The balloon separated from the gondola and floated away from the launch site located at North Battleford Saskatchewan.   Unfortunately, according to the Canadian media, the balloon is now unusable.

This is the latest setback for the sky-diver, as Monday he was forced to postpone the attempt due to high winds and bad weather.  He has also had to postpone back in 2002, and 2003.

Hopefully, Fournier will be able to get all the pieces together and do the jump, because I for one would love to see that happen, though I doubt we will find footage on you tube…