![]() Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.” Occurring between 09:30 and 12:17 local time (MDT), the mission (which ended with Baumgartner’s 4:19-long freefall featuring a peak speed of 1342km/h before deploying a parachute) broke three major international records – with Baumgartner now marked as the man who made the highest-ever jump from a platform, the longest distance for a freefall (36.5km), and the first person to ‘intentionally’ break the sound barrier (‘supersonic speed’) without the aid of a vehicle or an engine.Ī slightly less headline-making feat, meanwhile, was the viewing figures for the jump, which was streamed live (with 20 second delay) on YouTube by project sponsors Red Bull, with the footage seeing as many as 8 million views occurring simultaneously.Ī YouTube blog post recognised this achievement, writing: “We congratulate Felix Baumgartner and the entire Red Bull Stratos team for their successful mission, and for creating a livestream with the most concurrent views ever on YouTube.”Ĥ2-year-old Baumgartner, meanwhile, used his post-event press conference to clarify his message to the world shortly before jumping, confirming that he issued the words: “I know the whole world is watching right now and I wish the world could see what I can see. The ‘space jump’, saw Baumgartner (a BASE jumper nicknamed ‘Fearless Felix’) leap from 39km (24.3 miles, 128,000 ft) in the air after being sent up to the height from a purpose-built helium balloon launched from Roswell (USA), landing on his feet to complete a successful mission. He also clarified the words he spoke right before the jump as, “Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are.Yesterday saw the historic event of the first occasion of a human to physically break the sound barrier, with Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking jump from space also breaking records on YouTube, as millions tuned in live to watch the ‘Red Bull Stratos’ event. This preliminary data will be submitted to international bodies for certification before an official world record statement is made.īaumgartner thanked his team and said that standing atop the world humbled him and that his main aim was to come back alive. The maximum speed achieved by Baumgartner’s body during the jump was 373m/s, which equates to 833.9mph or Mach 1.24 – greater than the speed of sound. ![]() The distance travelled during the freefall was 36,529m (119,846 feet) and it lasted four minutes and 20 seconds. UPDATE: The official figures from Brian Nutley of the National Aeronautics Association in the US put the exit altitude (the height that Baumgartner jumped from) at 39,045m (128,100 feet). The team are currently awaiting official confirmation of securing three world records and a press conference is due to take place online later today. The launch and freefall were the result of five years of planning from the Red Bull Stratos project and could provide useful scientific data for research into aerospace safety. He communicated with Baumgartner from mission control throughout the jump up to the point where he landed safely in Roswell, New Mexico. ![]() The entire event unfolded live online via YouTube after previously scheduled attempts were postponed due to weather concerns.Ĭol Kittinger’s record was 31,333 metres (102,800 feet), achieved in 1960. The freefall lasted 4 minutes and 19 seconds, and Baumgartner reached terra firma in just nine minutes and 3 seconds following the jump. ![]() But this was just the first of three world records Baumgartner broke today.īaumgartner then leapt from the capsule that carried him to the edge of space, completing not only the highest freefall on record but also the world’s fastest freefall, reaching 1,137km/h. ![]() Under the guidance of the man who once held the record for the world’s highest freefall, Col Joe Kittinger, Baumgartner took over two-and-half hours to ascend to 39,044m (128,097 feet) in what was the world’s highest manned balloon flight. Austrian skydiver and BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner has completed a freefall of more than 39,000 metres (128,000 feet) and potentially broken three world records in the process. ![]()
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