Red Bull Skydive From Space

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 before he releases his.

Red bull skydive from space. Felix baumgartner is an austrian skydiver daredevil and base jumper. He became the first person to break the sound barrier relative to the surface without vehicular power on his descent. While the free fall was initially expected to last between five and six minutes baumgartne. The project called red bull stratos will send baumgartner freefalling faster than the speed of sound from an altitude of 23 miles 36 6 km above the ground.

By coincindence today s supersonic. The total jump from leaving the capsule to landing on the ground lasted approximately ten minutes. 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. 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.

Baumgartner s jump called the red bull stratos mission was sponsored by the energy drink of the same. British astronaut tim peake of the european space agency wrote via twitter as astro timpeake. 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.