# Today's Google Doodle celebrates first parachute jump

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**Created:** [October 22, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-first-parachute-jump/671951 "2013-10-22T18:20:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-first-parachute-jump/671951/1 "2013-10-22T18:20:58Z")

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[Here’s an article about it](http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-doodle-honors-parachute-jump-andre-jacques-garnerin/story?id=20644339). It’s an interactive game; you can float away in the balloon then drift back to Earth under the parachute.

The first jump took place over a hundred years before the Wright brothers took to the sky. It’s been a few years since I was an active skydiver but I might get back into it some day. I’d like to continue my quest to jump in all 50 states (I think I’m up to 36 now).