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Hope he isn't using style to jump to the great beyond

Felix Baumgartner Attempts 23-Mile Freefall Space Jump

He is expected to be the first human being to break the speed of sound without any vehicle. That is without being in a supersonic plane.

Rukemi291: Hope he isn't using style to jump to the great beyond

He has been training for a long time and has the current record holder guiding him all the way through the process. They are very good friends almost like father and son. The risks are real but every conceivable dynamic would have been factored in to make it as "safe" as possible.

Wow. I have to cram the name before i jam it in a science interview.

I wish him luck. Pls let me know if he succeeds

Rukemi291: Wow. I have to cram the name before i jam it in a science interview.

I wish him luck. Pls let me know if he succeeds

OK!

hope he has an oxygen mask or else air pressure would aid his quick death

Unbelievable stuff! He's done it! Fantastic!

Skydiver lands safely after historic jump from edge of space. http://on.cnn.com/QCNIrj

Daredevil skydiver jumps into stratosphere 24 miles over New Mexico

An Austrian daredevil leapt into the stratosphere on Sunday from a balloon flying 24 miles above the planet in an attempt to break the sound barrier.

Cheers broke out as Felix Baumgartner, 43, jumped from a tiny shelf outside the 11-by-8-foot (3.3-by-2.4 meter) fiberglass and acrylic capsule that was carried to 128,000 feet by an enormous balloon.

"We love you Felix!" screamed the crowd as he plunged through the stratosphere.

"My visor is fogging up," he gasped over the radio and he fell through the air moments before his parachute opened to the applause of the crowd on the ground, including his teary-eyed mother, father and girlfriend, watching on monitors miles below.

He landed about 10 minutes later, having broken the world record for the highest altitude jump by a skydiver, sponsors said.

As he prepared to jump from the pressurized capsule, Baumgartner went through a checklist of 40 items with project adviser Joe Kittinger, holder of a 19-mile high altitude parachute jump record that Baumgartner hopes to smash.

He checked through an equipment list from his seat and expressed concern that his astronaut-like helmet was not heating properly.

"This is very serious, Joe," said Baumgartner as the capsule, designed to remain at 55 degrees Fahrenheit ascended in skies where temperatures were expected to plunge below -91.8 F (-67.8 C), according to the project's website. "Sometimes it's getting foggy when I exhale. ... I do not feel heat."

Baumgartner's ascent into the stratosphere took about 2 1/2 hours.

The 30 million-cubic-foot (850,000-cubic-metre) plastic balloon, is about one-tenth the thickness of a Ziploc bag, or roughly as thin as a dry cleaner bag.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/14/us-usa-space-skydive-idUSBRE89C0JN20121014

We have to wait for confirmation on whether Felix broke the speed of sound record whilst falling. I hope he did.

Wow. That's remarkable. Thanks

chaircover: I missed it.

What happened to the balloon that transported him up?

The capsule he was in was detached from the balloon and parachuted back to earth, the capsule contains loads of footage and valuable data that we should start getting in the next few days

Yeah! He broke the speed of sound barrier. Wow! I watched it live, I can hopefully tell my grandchildren about it someday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9608084/Felix-Baumgartner-breaks-speed-of-sound.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eVjhQXRDa4

is there a chance that he could have died? People dey take risk sha. I never knew the distance from space was that short.

An amazing feat in and by itself.


Other than that a pointless risk

Kudos to Red-bull...
U need to see hw is girl welcomes him.

Mach 1.24. Impressive.

OK....so one man puts his name on the record books, and thousands others clap for him and go home their same old selves, it's not like Guiness Book of Records will go "Safarigirl made a comment on this historic feat" when it's added, so.....off to break a record of my own...MOST AMOUNT OF MOI-MOI CONSUMED UNDER A MINUTE...wish me luck

I'm searching for a way to jump to d planet of diamonds...
Him dey jump back to earth!

When do we have this spirit to break records in Nigeria. when....

safarigirl: OK....so one man puts his name on the record books, and thousands others clap for him and go home their same old selves, it's not like Guiness Book of Records will go "Safarigirl made a comment on this historic feat" when it's added, so.....off to break a record of my own...MOST AMOUNT OF MOI-MOI CONSUMED UNDER A MINUTE...wish me luck

Good luck! I dey behind your record-breaking attempt.

AjanleKoko: Mach 1.24. Impressive.

No unimpressive...

white people

God knows I love this picture. Unlimited joy!

OkwaIfugo: When do we have this spirit to break records in Nigeria. when....

How dare you say that! Just for the records, Nigeria is only second to China in the purchase of private luxury jets. Yes Nigeria! Ahead of South Africa, Russia, Saudi, UAE, Brazil, S.Korea even America!
Is that no record?

Le Stylo:
How dare you say that! Just for the records, Nigeria is only second to China in the purchase of private luxury jets. Yes Nigeria! Ahead of South Africa, Russia, Saudi, UAE, Brazil, S.Korea even America!
Is that no record?

Just like the one of being the No.1 importer of generator sets in the world.

By the way, Nigeria is the No.1 producer of Cassava in the world! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!

Great men do what ordinary men won't do.superb feat.

NA only bad bad tins nigeria dey breake record for.

a perfect diver. . .
he will do well in a barcelona jersey. pedro, busquets, watch your back