World's Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump
• SpaceSuccessfully jumped from 128,000 feet. Landed safely. Broke speed of sound barrier, highest accent in a balloon for a human and highest freefall. But was traveling too fast to exceed longest time in freefall.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/us/felix-baumgartner-skydiving.html
http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/35850/felix+baumgartner+sets+new+records+by+successfully+skydiving+from+24+miles+high/
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http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/features/science/20121014_ap_skydiverlandssafelyafter24mileleaptoearth.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/felix-baumgartner-tries-record-breaking-jump-again-live-blog/2012/10/14/b7ddfc18-159d-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_blog.html
Official record:
Exit 128,120 feet [highest parachute jump, highest human travel by balloon]
Speed Mach 1.24, or 884MPH [fastest freefall]
4:20 minutes in freefall. Chute deployed at 5,200 feet.
The capsule landed 55 miles East of where Baumgartner landed.
Official record:
Exit 128,097 feet [highest altitude parachute jump, highest altitude human travel by balloon]
Speed Mach 1.24, or 884MPH [fastest freefall] exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane.
4:19 minutes in freefall. Chute deployed at 5,200 feet. Mission Director Joe Kittinger still holds the record for the longest amount of time in freefall without a droge chute, after Baumgartner broke his altitude and speed record.
The capsule landed 55 miles East of where Baumgartner landed.