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It was on Sunday that the Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner succeeded in becoming the first man to break the sound barrier in free fall, after starting a capsule attached to a helium balloon, a altitude record of just over 39,000 feet in the air of New Mexico in the southwestern United States.
According to Sarah Anderson, a spokesman for Red Bull Stratos mission, Baumgartner reached a maximum speed of 1137 km / h.
The jump lasted a whole 9 minutes and three seconds, 4 min 44 sec after the Austrian opened his parachute above the desert of New Mexico, according to the same source.
This adventure was also an opportunity to beat two records, one of the highest altitude reached by a man in a balloon, and the record for the highest skydive, held since 1960 by a former colonel in the Army U.S. Air, Joe Kittinger (who jumped from 31,333 m). It was just part today of the Red Bull Stratos
According to Sarah Anderson, a spokesman for Red Bull Stratos mission, Baumgartner reached a maximum speed of 1137 km / h.
The jump lasted a whole 9 minutes and three seconds, 4 min 44 sec after the Austrian opened his parachute above the desert of New Mexico, according to the same source.
This adventure was also an opportunity to beat two records, one of the highest altitude reached by a man in a balloon, and the record for the highest skydive, held since 1960 by a former colonel in the Army U.S. Air, Joe Kittinger (who jumped from 31,333 m). It was just part today of the Red Bull Stratos
