Felix Baumgartner Space Jump
14 2012 file photo felix baumgartner of austria gestures prior to speaking with the media after successfully jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height.
Felix baumgartner space jump. Baumgartner has his eyes on an even bigger leap a space jump from 125 000 feet 38 100 m in the next month or so. Doing so he set world records for skydiving an estimated 39 km reaching an estimated top speed of 1 357 64 km h or mach 1 25. 14 felix baumgartner 43 stepped off the edge and plummeted at a top speed of 833 9 miles per hour.
Supported by a team of. He is best known for jumping to earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 october 2012 and landing in new mexico usa as part of the red bull stratos project. On 14 october 2012 baumgartner flew approximately 39 kilometres into the stratosphere over new mexico united states in a helium balloon before free falling in a pressure suit and then parachuting to earth.
Felix baumgartner is an austrian skydiver daredevil and base jumper. The international space station for example orbits at an altitude of 250 miles. Space however is generally considered to begin at an altitude of 62 miles.
After just over nine. While the free fall was initially expected to last between five and six minutes baumgartne. Red bull stratos was a high altitude diving project involving austrian skydiver felix baumgartner.
Jump into more adrenaline filled aerial action. After ascending 128 100 feet above the earth in a helium balloon on oct. While baumgartner s jump is from a record setting altitude it is only a fraction of the distance to orbital height.
The total jump from leaving the capsule to landing on the ground lasted approximately ten minutes. File in this oct. Felix baumgartner felix baumgartner makes record breaking skydive from space video austrian daredevil felix baumgartner jumps from more than 24 miles above earth breaking the speed of sound.