Felix Baumgartner shattered the world record for highest-altitude jump when he famously plummeted 128,100 feet to Earth on October 9, 2012. Sponsored by Red Bull, the event was an international phenomenon as 12.6 million people watched the event live. In the early morning hours of October 24, 57-year-old computer scientist Alan Eustace quietly broke that record by completing a jump from over a mile higher at 135,890 feet.

He had partnered with Paragon Space Development Corporation and was testing one of their life support spacesuits; the event was not done merely for publicity. The suit protected Eustace from the drastic temperature changes as he ascended and then descended through the atmosphere, and provided pure oxygen for him to breathe.

Eustace, a senior VP at Google, was lifted off a runway in Roswell, New Mexico by a large, helium-filled balloon. The balloon was attached directly to his spacesuit, pulling him up to his destination over a course of two hours. As he wasn’t transported with a capsule like Baumgartner, he was really able soak in the height at which he was going to fall and experience the changes in altitude. When it came time to jump, a small explosive device freed him from the balloon, and he descended over 25 miles to the Earth’s surface in just 15 minutes.

Eustace reached a top speed of 822 miles an hour and broke the speed of sound less than two minutes into his free fall. His parachute opened when he reached 18,000 feet, and he safely touched the ground about 70 miles away from where he launched.

The google bloke probably had more resources / money

>When it came time to jump, a small explosive device freed him from the balloon, and he descended over 25 miles to the Earth’s surface in just 15 minutes.

You’d need a pretty loud bang to get me to jump out of a balloon at that height.

Postpocelipse said:

Felix Baumgartner shattered the world record for highest-altitude jump when he famously plummeted 128,100 feet to Earth on October 9, 2012. Sponsored by Red Bull, the event was an international phenomenon as 12.6 million people watched the event live. In the early morning hours of October 24, 57-year-old computer scientist Alan Eustace quietly broke that record by completing a jump from over a mile higher at 135,890 feet.

He had partnered with Paragon Space Development Corporation and was testing one of their life support spacesuits; the event was not done merely for publicity. The suit protected Eustace from the drastic temperature changes as he ascended and then descended through the atmosphere, and provided pure oxygen for him to breathe.

Eustace, a senior VP at Google, was lifted off a runway in Roswell, New Mexico by a large, helium-filled balloon. The balloon was attached directly to his spacesuit, pulling him up to his destination over a course of two hours. As he wasn’t transported with a capsule like Baumgartner, he was really able soak in the height at which he was going to fall and experience the changes in altitude. When it came time to jump, a small explosive device freed him from the balloon, and he descended over 25 miles to the Earth’s surface in just 15 minutes.

Eustace reached a top speed of 822 miles an hour and broke the speed of sound less than two minutes into his free fall. His parachute opened when he reached 18,000 feet, and he safely touched the ground about 70 miles away from where he launched.

What cilly sunt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsftfzBrVko

Limited footage shown here.

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Speedy said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsftfzBrVko

Limited footage shown here.

That’s the way to do it! That silly capsule of Baumgartner was a waste of mass. Mass is everything when it comes to high altitude.

Now all they need to do is replace that bulky spacesuit with some flexible neoprene scuba gear.

Me next, please.

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 822 miles an hour by myself

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 1322.88077 Kilometer/Hour (km/h) by myself

burn any parts of your body?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 822 miles an hour by myself

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 1322.88077 Kilometer/Hour (km/h) by myself

burn any parts of your body?

There won’t be any appeciable atmosphere if he reached those speeds.

+r

CrazyNeutrino said:

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 822 miles an hour by myself

I’ve moved through the atmosphere at close to 600 mph in company with dozens of other people.

I’ve moved through the atmosphere at 350 mph, upside down, in company with one other person.

Where do i stand on the ladder ,coach?

captain_spalding said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 822 miles an hour by myself

I’ve moved through the atmosphere at close to 600 mph in company with dozens of other people.

I’ve moved through the atmosphere at 350 mph, upside down, in company with one other person.

Where do i stand on the ladder ,coach?

What do you need as ladder for?

roughbarked said:

What do you need a ladder for?

Changing lightbulbs?

jjjust moi said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 822 miles an hour by myself

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 1322.88077 Kilometer/Hour (km/h) by myself

burn any parts of your body?

There won’t be any appeciable atmosphere if he reached those speeds.

he landed 70 miles away, thats 112 kilometres away from where he launched

so he came in on an angle

not straight down

he launched from 135,890 feet = 41,419 meters, 41 kilometres

can someone work out the angle

height is 41km length 112km

CrazyNeutrino said:

jjjust moi said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 822 miles an hour by myself

Not everyone can say I was moving through the atmosphere at 1322.88077 Kilometer/Hour (km/h) by myself

burn any parts of your body?

There won’t be any appeciable atmosphere if he reached those speeds.

he landed 70 miles away, thats 112 kilometres away from where he launched

so he came in on an angle

not straight down

he launched from 135,890 feet = 41,419 meters, 41 kilometres

can someone work out the angle

height is 41km length 112km

It’s more likely that he ascended at an angle.

CrazyNeutrino said:

can someone work out the angle

height is 41km length 112km

I imagine most kids in grade 8 or 9 would be able top, so yes, there is quite a number who could solve this connundrum.

jjjust moi said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

jjjust moi said:

There won’t be any appeciable atmosphere if he reached those speeds.

he landed 70 miles away, thats 112 kilometres away from where he launched

so he came in on an angle

not straight down

he launched from 135,890 feet = 41,419 meters, 41 kilometres

can someone work out the angle

height is 41km length 112km

It’s more likely that he ascended at an angle.

two launch points

the balloon from the ground

and when he detached from the balloon 41km up

yes could have drifted while ascending, and drifted while descending

formula please

CrazyNeutrino said:

formula please

JAYSUS, CN, it is basic trig.

SOHCAHTOA!!!!!!!!!

sibeen said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

formula please

JAYSUS, CN, it is basic trig.

SOHCAHTOA!!!!!!!!!

and if its basic can you please show a formula

you are conversing with a visual artist not a math type person

you know I did do math at school but forgot any equation after a week

my maths teacher always wore a black suit

so math became the color black

yes sibeen show us dummies the formla don’t go all picofarad on us!

u

CrazyNeutrino said:

you know I did do math at school but forgot any equation after a week

my maths teacher always wore a black suit

so math became the color black

Why do you want a formula then?
You’ll just forget it.

Surely just the answer is what you seek..

stumpy_seahorse said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

you know I did do math at school but forgot any equation after a week

my maths teacher always wore a black suit

so math became the color black

Why do you want a formula then?
You’ll just forget it.

Surely just the answer is what you seek..

70 degrees, or close enough for engineering work.

CrazyNeutrino said:

you know I did do math at school but forgot any equation after a week

my maths teacher always wore a black suit

so math became the color black

Maths, please. Short for Mathematics!

Michael V said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

you know I did do math at school but forgot any equation after a week

my maths teacher always wore a black suit

so math became the color black

Maths, please. Short for Mathematics!

ok maths

I did get one right out of three

What a landing LOL
Splatt … face plant.
Watching it as a Skydiver myself I think his legs had gone to sleep . Not surprising though . How long did it take for him to assend just hanging on the end of a balloon.
Nice veiw but would gotten a bit “Are we there yet?”

Yeah not bad but I will be impressed when someone drops from SPAAAAACE.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOOSE

Joe. Kittinger did it in 1960 & therefore remains the coolest of them all.

The first human to observe the curvature of the Earth, he made his final jump, from the Excelsior III, at 102,800 feet (31,300 m).
Towing a small drogue parachute for initial stabilization, he fell for 4 minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 miles per hour (988 km/h) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m).

Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled to twice its normal size but he rode the balloon up to 102,800 feet before stepping off.

Of the jumps from Excelsior, Kittinger said, “There’s no way you can visualize the speed. There’s nothing you can see to see how fast you’re going. You have no depth perception. If you’re in a car driving down the road and you close your eyes, you have no idea what your speed is. It’s the same thing if you’re free falling from space. There are no signposts. You know you are going very fast, but you don’t feel it. You don’t have a 614-mph wind blowing on you. I could only hear myself breathing in the helmet.”

Kittinger set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These were the USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). Kittinger’s records for the highest ascent, highest parachute jump, and fastest velocity stood for 52 years, until they were broken in 2012 by Felix Baumgartner.

Yep, the coolest of them all.

they even made a music video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcT8lKKpeXs