It was October 14, 2012 when 8 million people joined YouTube to see the first human fall from space. The demand for this spectacle on the internet was much higher but the support of the systems could not satisfy it.
Austrian paratrooper Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule attached to a balloon from a height of 38,969.4 meters. It took off from New Mexico in the USA and landed on a parachute.
Preparations for the project took five years and cost Red Bull $ 20 million.
Felix was born in 1969 and made his first parachute drop when he was 16 years old. He continued with extreme parachuting and for several years worked to perfect his falls.
His career took off when Red Bull began funding his ventures.
On this day the flight lasted 2 hours and the fall nine minutes. The balloon when inflated reached a height of almost 100 meters, had a capacity of 850,000 cubic meters and was full of helium. During his fall, the speed of his body exceeded the speed of sound after reaching 1357.6 kilometers per hour.
With this fall, a lot of data was obtained about the way the human body reacts in extreme situations but also about relevant uniforms that protect humans in such conditions.
[Source: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com]
