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Felix Baumgartner - Record Freefall Jump ( 24 miles / 39 km )
Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner successfully completed a record-breaking freefall from space on Sunday morning near Roswell, N.M. He reached speeds of over 600 miles per hour during the 128,000-foot high fall to Earth.
He broke the record for both the highest jump and the fastest jump ever in a freefall. On the ascent, he also broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight.
"The whole world is watching," Baumgartner said before he lept. "I wish you could see what I could see."
The mission, called Red Bull Stratos and sponsored by the energy drink company, was aborted last Tuesday after the jump's weather experts determined the winds were too high. He needed perfectly wind-less conditions and clear skies in order to do the jump safely.
On Sunday, an inflated balloon lifted 43-year-old Baumgartner over 24 miles high into the air in a small space capsule, a process that took over two and a half hours. From there, he jumped out of the capsule in a high-tech, pressurized space suit without supplemental oxygen and fell to earth in a jump that lasted over five minutes.
On the descent, Baumgartner said his visor fogged up, but otherwise, the jump went smoothly. He pulled his parachute after four minutes and 22 seconds.
"Today was a big day for science, as the Red Bull Stratos team collected new data that can help the safety of future space travelers," said news broadcaster Robert Hager, who was narrating the live feed.
On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in a rocket-powered airplane. The current record before Baumgartner was set in 1960 by Joe Kittinger, a U.S. Air Force Captain. Kittinger jumped from a gondola nearly 20 miles high and reached speeds of 614 miles per hour. Kittinger has been Baumgartner's mentor and advisor in the training for his record-breaking jump and he was on hand on Sunday morning giving Baumgartner verbal instructions throughout the jump from the operation's mission control. "Start the cameras. And our guardian angel will take care of you," Kittinger said right before Baumgartner pushed off.
Baumgartner has been training for this jump for five years, including a practice jump in July from 18.5 miles above the Earth. "I want to break the speed of sound, no matter what it takes," Baumgartner said beforehand.
The jump was telecast live on the internet, which was watched by over 8 million people around the world.
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