I’ve heard from a reliable source that Eli Thompson has died in a skydiving accident in Switzerland. He had been planning to be the first person to dive from a rocket. I’m sure that someone else will step up, though. Condolences to his young family.

I thought this was kind of ironic, from the link:

After his first jump at 19, Eli Thompson knew that skydiving was something he would do for the rest of his life.

Sadly, he was right, but probably not quite in the way he intended.