43-year-old Austrian, ‘Fearless Felix’ Baumgartner, became the first freefall diver
to break the sound barrier and the record for the
highest-ever manned balloon ascent and also made the highest and fastest skydive in history. He made his death-defying jump from a
tiny capsule that took him in about two-and-a-half hours to reach the edge of space(128,177ft) while it took him less than ten minutes to descend down to earth.
He had been planning the jump, sponsored by energy drink maker Red Bull, for seven years even then so many things could have gone wrong; if his $200,000 pressurised spacesuit and helmet had been damaged it could
have been catastrophic. A rip could have exposed him to a lack
of oxygen and temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero,
causing potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a
condition known as 'boiling blood', brain bursting and eyeballs
popping out. He, however, made a very successful jump and landed in one piece.
Amazing feat! See the fall in pics after the cut...
No comments:
Post a Comment
PLEASE DROP YOUR COMMENTS