Felix Baumgartner jumps from balloon hovering 24 miles above Earth
- 12 years ago
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner leaps into the stratosphere from a balloon 24 miles above Earth.
Cheers erupts in the control room as he broke as many as three world records including the highest skydive ever.
Baumgartner jumped from a skateboard sized shelf outside a capsule carried by an enormous balloon.
His body pierced the atmosphere at speeds topping 700 miles per hour. appearing to achieve another of his goals: to become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound
Cheers erupts in the control room as he broke as many as three world records including the highest skydive ever.
Baumgartner jumped from a skateboard sized shelf outside a capsule carried by an enormous balloon.
His body pierced the atmosphere at speeds topping 700 miles per hour. appearing to achieve another of his goals: to become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound