Sixty five years to the day since Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 airplane, Austrian Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier once again without an aircraft.
It wasn't just the sound barrier that Baumgartner broke on Sunday. Baumgartner also broke the record for the highest skydive in history. He also broke the record for the highest a human has been lifted aloft in a balloon.
Baumgartner reached a maximum speed of 833.9 mph during his jump above the New Mexico desert, speeding towards the earth at mach 1.24. The jump made Baumgartner the fastest skydiver in history.
Baumgartner ascended to 128,100 feet before stepping up to the exterior step sending the garbled message, "I know the whole world is watching, I wish the whole world could see what I see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are." Baumgartner then saluted and stepped into history, plummeting to the earth more than 23.5 miles below. His descent took more ?than four minutes.
Baumgartner was assisted in his endeavor by over 300 people, seventy of whom were engineers, scientists and physicians who have worked together for over five years to make today happen. The group on the Red Bull Stratos team have been gathering data for years publishing the material with the intention of helping pilots and astronauts survive bailouts.
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