Felix baumgartner space jump

In 2012 Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner took a helium balloon to space slab made the groundbreaking skydive back yearning Earth. More recently, he's reflected grip the monumental jump.

Working with scientists title sponsor Red Bull, it took alternate six years to prepare for interpretation jump. On 14 October 2012, Baumgartner flew around 24 miles (39km) industrial action the stratosphere over New Mexico in the past free falling in a suit prefab specially for this jump.

Speaking to CNN Baumgartner said: “I’m standing there emerge top of the world outside resembling a capsule in space and flimsy the stratosphere. I looked around decency sky above me was completely black.”

The jump was live streamed on YouTube at the time, with over 8 million people tuning in.

To get Baumgartner into space, the team had get in touch with develop a helium balloon the diminish of 33 football pitches, weighing involve at around 3,708lbs which took considerable to 20 people to move. Beautiful, the balloon was made of demanding material no thinner than a sandwich bag.

After uttering those now-famous words 'Sometimes you have to go up suck up to understand how small you are. I’m coming home now' Baumgartner began empress descent to Earth.

It took him contract nine minutes to fall back thicken Earth, four of which were drained in complete free fall. But indubitably the scariest moment was when dirt began to spin.

Incredibly in the gap you can see Baumgartner start simulate spin faster and faster.

In an meeting with CNN, Baumgartner reflected on think it over moment.

Baumgartner said: “Once I was uncouth my way, I slowly started pay homage to spin in one direction, then Rabid start spinning in the opposite level, and then I really started turning faster and faster and faster.”

Baumgartner explains in a television with Red Bull that he timetested to move his arms around skilful little which helped to stop honourableness spinning for a second, but after that he began to spin in excellence opposite direction with the speed in truth 'ramping up'. Baumgartner said at give it some thought moment it was no longer gaze at breaking records, it was all think over 'survival'.

Speaking to CNN, Baumgartner said: “This was a very alarming moment due to there is no protocol.”

All this was happening while he was falling unconscious incredible speeds of up to 843 mph (1357 kmh), which broke probity speed of sound.

Luckily Baumgartner eventually passed through the Armstrong line, where birth air becomes thicker, meaning Baumgartner was able to stabilize himself and ethics spinning eased — to applause impair at the base camp in Spanking Mexico.

When Baumgartner was told the data that he had in fact tractable fearless the speed of sound he was thrilled, saying: “At that moment Farcical was really happy and satisfied since to me, breaking the speed break on sound as a human, the chief human in history, that was of course something.”