Skydiver Jumps From Outer Space And Wants A Bigger, Higher Challenge!

Felix Baumgartner freefalls from space onto earth! This daredevil and courageous man will attempt to traveled faster than the speed of sound and fall 23 miles from space onto land.So many things can go wrong and kill him on his way down from his capsule, but to him it’s worth the accomplishment.  Hit the jump to read how many ways he can die or what can go wrong on this adventure.
Steph Bassanini


‘If you start flat-spinning faster than 150rpm, there’s only one way for your blood to leave your body – and that’s through your eyeballs…’
A flat spin in freefall is just one of many catastrophic eventualities that the Red Bull Stratos team must avoid if Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner is to make history.
Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge of space.
In a new world order where privateers are leading the way in space research, Baumgartner is poised to take a stratospheric flight to more than 120,000ft – almost 23 miles – in a fortified capsule attached to a high-altitude helium balloon.
He will then ‘step off’ into space protected only by a pressurised space suit, attempt to control his freefall for 35 seconds until he reaches Mach 1 (the speed of sound) and goes supersonic, before parachuting to the ground.
Under the expert eyes of Nasa-trained experts, Baumgartner has benefited from seven years and millions of pounds’ worth of preparation, and is in line to break four world records, including the long held skydive altitude record of U.S. pilot Joe Kittinger, who jumped from 102,800ft in 1960; a test jump by Kittinger a year earlier was a near-disaster when an equipment malfunction caused him to lose consciousness.

‘As we know, numerous attempts have been made to challenge Joe’s 50-year-old records, but no one has yet succeeded,’ says Baumgartner.
‘And no one, not even Joe, has ever broken the speed of sound in freefall.’
Kittinger himself said, ‘The fact that this record has stood for 50 years speaks for itself. It’s still a real journey into the unknown but records are there to be broken.
‘Man should always strive to go higher, faster, deeper and I’d be delighted if Felix broke my record. I believe he can do it.’
Baumgartner has already landed a successful test jump last month from 71,581ft – so he has some idea what it will be like.
He said, ‘When you depressurise the capsule you think, “This is serious now.” You can feel in your stomach and every part of your body that it does not want to be there. But the view was amazing.’
Now he is preparing for the real thing, with the ‘jump’ scheduled for between July and the beginning of October.
It is no surprise he has concerns, even though, aged 43, he has already freefallen across the English Channel, BASE-jumped from Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro and leapt face-first into a pitch-dark, 190-metre deep cave in Croatia.

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