On the left , Felix Baumgartnersalutes as he start his walk of life towards his place capsule in Roswell , New Mexico , on March 15 . On the right , the here and now before he jumped from 13 miles up in the sky . That photo alone blows my mind .
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The 42 - year - old Baumgartner — in a to the full pressurized jump suit — generate into his specially designed Red Bull Stratos abridgment to reach the 13.6 mile mark in the first successful trial towards his humans record book - founder space jump . The ejection seat , attached to a 100 - foot - wide helium balloon , only took him to 71,581 feet this time . He then jumped into a innocent dusk that lasted for three minutes and 43 seconds . He make a speed of 364.4 miles per hour ( 586.4 kilometers per minute ) .
To give you an idea of how amazing this is already , a Boeing 747 usually flies at about 8.6 naut mi high-pitched ( 14,000 meters ) .
And yet , it is nothing compared to what is come . Baumgartner wants to jump from an altitude of 23 miles ( 120,000 feet or 37 km ) , getting near to the edge of the stratosphere . When he does that , he will fall for an estimated 5 minute and 30 seconds , breaking the stop number of auditory sensation in the process . After flying at Mach 1 for a while , he will open his chute at one mile ( about 1,500 metre ) . If everything goes okay , he will reach the undercoat 10 minutes afterwards .
When he does that this summertime , after another test jump at 90,000 feet , he will break the record go down by United States Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger on August 16 , 1960 . Kittinger jumped from the Excelsior III balloon , which at the clip was flying at 102,800 feet - that ’s 19.47 Swedish mile or 31 km up in the sky . Kittinger did n’t have all the fancy equipment that Baumgartner is using , but it does n’t matter . Both of them are as gloriously crazy as the first astronauts . Well done , Fearless Felix , and godspeed for the next jump ! [ Red Bull Stratos ]
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