The Red Bull Stratos mission proved that a human could break the speed of sound in freefall.
jumped from a helium-balloon-tethered gondola that was 102,800 feet above the Earth. With a free fall lasting four minutes and 36 seconds for 102,800 feet , Kittinger traveled at more than 600 mph before he opened his parachute at around 14,000 feet .
Fifty-two years later, on October 14, 2012, Austrian skydiver and daredevil Felix Baumgartner, in a mission called Red Bull Stratos, rode a capsule under a helium balloon to the edge of space, 127,852 feet above Earth. He free fell for a record of 119,431 feet , breaking Kittinger's record and breaking the sound barrier . With millions of people watching him on live television, his parachute deployed at 8,400 feet , and he touched the ground safely.
Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumps out from the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, USA on October 14, 2012.The project, which was expected to take only 24 months, took several years.
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