Felix Baumgartner is the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound -risky skydive

Oct. 14, 2012 - PRLog -- Felix Baumgartner is the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound- risky skydive.
Felix Baumgartner 's team took a calculated risk to proceed after understanding why the problem existed.  Jump at this  altitude, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply.
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Felix Baumgartner’s efforts have finally toppled records that have stood for more than 50 years.  Before the highest, farthest, and longest freefall was made by Kittinger, who leapt from a helium envelope in 1960. His altitude was 102,800ft (31km). (His mark for the longest freefall remains intact; he fell for more than four and a half minutes before deploying his chute; Baumgartner was in freefall for four minutes and 19 seconds).
Risks involved
The 43-year-old adventurer – best known for leaping off skyscrapers – first discussed the possibility of beating Kittinger’s records in 2005.
On a parachute The Austrian first began to discuss seriously the idea of a record breaking jump in 2005
Since then, he has had to battle technical and budgetary challenges to make it happen.
What he was proposing was extremely dangerous, even for a man used to those skyscraper stunts.
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Felix Baumgartner is the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound- risky skydive
At Sunday’s jump altitude, the air pressure is less than 2% of what it is at sea level, and it is impossible to breathe without an oxygen supply.
Felix Baumgartner is the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound- risky skydive
Others have tried to break the records have lost their lives in the process.
Baumgartner’s team built him a special pressurized capsule to protect him on the way up, and for his descent he wore a next generation, full pressure suit made by the same company that prepares the flight suits of astronauts.