Monday, October 15, 2012

Space Jump Amazingness

         Yesterday, on October 14, 2012, the amazing Felix Baumgartner made history. He broke multiple world records and did something no man has ever done before.
         He started his journey by floating up in the sky, in a balloon, for two hours. Then at 128,100 feet, he jumped off. He free fell 128,100 feet in the air, it took him 4 minutes and 20 seconds to reach the ground. This amazing adventure is a Red Bull promotion, but it is also helping test out new space suits. No flight like this is perfect, there where some problems. Like Baumgartner's visor fogged up which could of effected his vision, and also he began to spin uncontrollably, luckily he got the spinning under control before he sped Horizontal, which would cause him to black out. He broke the record for fastest man, he traveled at 833.9 miles an hour or 373 meters per second. He was going so fast the he broke the sound barrier, creating a sonic bomb with his body. He also broke the record for Super Sonic Speed, Highest Free Fall, and Highest Balloon Travel, and he also broke the record for highest human.
        He finally landed in the New Mexico desert after his amazing journey. He challenged others to beat his record, he said that he wanted to see someone younger do this.
       So whats your take on this? and would ever do something like this? Leave a comment!

2 comments:

  1. I think what he did is amazing, but I would be way to afraid to do it!

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  2. I would never do this, but I am very impressed that he broke the sound barrier.

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