Skydive from "Edge of Space" (120,000 ft)

[ashrobhoy]

Safe and sound like a good kerbal

[jhz3]

Wow that was pretty amazing, don't exactly think it was the "Apollo of our generation", but kudos Felix.

[hotmailcompany52]

Looking forward to the press conference.

[Felsmak]

All manly men in the whole world bow for their new king!

[rb22]

wow! no boom but brilliant! was worried at first!

[TNTGODZZ]

that was a perfect touch down. unfortunate he didnt get the longest jump, but i hope he broke the barrier.

[mustwinfull]

Well Done for Felix, my whole family just finished watching the coverage of it, sadly he didn't break all the records he wanted to.

[hotmailcompany52]

Started a steam group called Felix Baumgartner Appreciation Club.

[Awesomeblack]

Was indeed a nice touchdow. Lets hope he broke at least 3 of 4 records, in stead of 'just' 2

[rb22]

If you'd like to watch the jump again

http://gizmodo.com/5951563/first-human-supersonic-space-jump-live-coverage

[jhz3]

Doesn't he technically still get the record for longest freefall? If I remember correctly, Kittinger used a drogue chute to slow his descent...

[rb22]

just wow!

pic courtesy Red Bull

conference shortly...

Edited October 14, 2012 by rb22

[deadshot462]

Preliminary data indicates Felix achieved Mach 1.24, faster than the speed of sound. Congratz to him.

[zarniw00p]

The first videos from Felix Baumgartners onboard cam are on youtube!

[rb22]

looks intense!

[olex]

Very impressive. I held my breath when he spun, that didn't look like it was going to plan - but he regained control, and touched down beautifully. Kudos to Felix and the team for pulling this off.

[Rascal Nag]

Doesn't he technically still get the record for longest freefall? If I remember correctly, Kittinger used a drogue chute to slow his descent...

Nah, Kittinger didn't use a drogue chute. Though they mentioned during the stream that in an earlier test jump, Kittinger's drogue deployed too early.

[jhz3]

I know for a fact he had a "stabilization chute", I don't consider that to be a free fall. Felix was freefalling until he deployed the main chute, hence the gnarly spin. Either way it was an amazing accomplishment.

[Matokage]

I was hoping for a sonic boom but he spined too much! the same happen at KSP until the Kerbal reach a thicker atmospher

[Nibb31]

I find it a bit annoying hearing the media talk about "the edge of space". Space is empirically considered to start at 100km, which is nearly 3 times the altitude reached by Baumgartner's balloon.

I even read articles this morning claiming that this jump was a huge step to figure out how astronauts could evacuate from orbit which is totally silly, or people asking if he was closer to the ISS than to the ground (the ISS orbits at 10 times this altitude and more importantly travels at 28000km/h). Most people don't realize that spaceflight is about speed, not altitude, and that you can't just jump off the ISS wit a parachute or get into orbit with a balloon.

[rb22]

via @RedBullStratos

The 30 mill cubic ft balloon was tracked in descent and taken to Mission Control post mission

http://www.redbullstratos.com/technology/high-altitude-balloon/

[heath]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU6ZI...ature=youtu.be

Very short video to celebrate his success.