Freefall from space felix baumgartner biography
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Felix Baumgartner: First person to break sound barrier in freefall
An unprecedented eight million people went onto YouTube on 14 October to witness the game-changing moment Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a parachute jump from a height of 38, metres, smashing through eight world records and the sound barrier in the space of just three hours.
Five years in scrupulous planning, the $million (£million) Red Bull Stratos project made history that day, signalling a huge leap forward in the world’s knowledge about the way the body copes with extreme conditions near space.
At a.m. local time ( p.m. GMT), Felix lifted off from Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Destination: the edge of space. Within the next few hours, Felix would be back on Earth having become the First human to break the sound barrier in freefall, completed the Highest freefall parachute jump (38, m / , ft) and achieved the Fastest speed in freefall (1, km/h / mph).
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Felix Baumgartner on Red Bull Stratos: the day the black sky turned blue
It was on October 14, that a then year-old skydiver from Austria stepped out of a capsule on the edge of space, at an höjd över havsnivån of almost 40km, and began a free fall to Earth that made him the first human being to travel faster than the speed of sound outside a vehicle.
It took just 34 seconds for Felix Baumgartner to hit Mach 1, creating a sonic boom that could be heard by those watching from the New Mexico desert below and the millions around the world watching the uppdrag live. After four minutes and 20 seconds, he opened his parachute and went on to achieve a clean landing.
A project more than fem years in the making had gone almost perfectly. It was played out on 77 TV channels globally and the stream nearly broke YouTube servers. A decade on, content from Red Bull Stratos on YouTube has been watched close to a billion times and looking back, Baumgartner still sees it as a seismic mome
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Bio
Born in Salzburg, Austria, in , Felix began skydiving at the age of 16 and extended his skills as part of the Austrian military’s demonstration and competition team. In , he began performing skydiving exhibitions for Red bull. The company’s out-of-the-box thinking and Felix’s adventurous spirit clicked and they’ve collaborated ever since, becoming today the world’s most known Red bull athlete.
By the ’s, Felix felt that he’d gone as far as he could with traditional skydiving, so he extended his canopy skills with BASE jumping &#; parachuting from a fixed object or landform &#; one of the most extreme and dangerous sport. He finds that the lightning-fast reflexes and precise techniques required by such low-altitude feats also enhance his high-altitude skydiving technique.
Felix has made 14 world records with his BASE jumps all over the planet , being a pioneer who has opened the path for all the skydivers around the world, for whom he is a great inspiration. Be