A Man Who Fell from Space to Earth

We already know about aircraft that travel at supersonic speeds. That’s mind-boggling on its own. But what about a human doing the same? You know, without the plane! One man flew faster than the speed of sound while freefalling 120,000 feet from space. Was it Superman? Well, close but not exactly.
Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian Skydiver and a bit of a daredevil. Ever since he was little, he loved heights, and his life-long dream was to become a skydiver. He began working on his goal at the age of 16. His achievements started getting more and more thrilling. He was the first person in the whole world to Cross the English Channel with a pair of carbon wings, and the first person to fly next to an airplane.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Why job as a skydiver got tiring for Felix 0:31
The lowest BASE jump 1:36
Kittinger’s record 3:32
Btw, what's the speed of sound? 4:18
What his innovative pressure suit looked like 5:23
The record-breaking day 6:46
#skydiving #basejumping #brightside
Preview photo credit:
This picture provided by www.redbullcontentpool.com shows pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumping out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos on October 14, 2012. The Austrian daredevil became the first man to break the sound barrier in a record-shattering freefall jump from the edge of space, organizers said. The 43-year-old leapt from a capsule more than 24 miles (39 kilometers) above the Earth, reaching a speed of 706 miles per hour (1,135 km/h) before opening his red and white parachute and floating down to the New Mexico desert: By AFP PHOTO/ www.redbullcontentpool.com/ Jay Nemeth/EAST NEWS, www.eastnews.r...
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SUMMARY:
- By 1988, Felix started doing skydiving exhibitions for the well-known company. Even though his job as a skydiver was filled with adrenaline and excitement, it got tiring for Felix at some point.
- In 1999, he achieved his first record for the lowest BASE jump. He leaped from the Hand of the “Christ the Redeemer” statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Felix transformed from a regular sky-diver into a daredevil. He would parachute from different fixed objects all the way down to the ground.
- His most mind-boggling achievement came with the Red Bull Stratos Project on October 14th, 2012. When Felix was 43 years old, he made his life-long dream come to life.
- Back in the day, there was another legendary man named Joseph Kittinger. He was an Air Force Command Pilot, and in the 1960s he performed the highest dive in history.
- The speed of sound is calculated by a Mach Number. When something approaches the speed of sound, they get close to the Mach number 1.
- Baumgartner’s team put together an advanced capsule that would operate as Felix’s controlled climate during his ascent to 120,000ft.
- His suit was specifically coated to keep his body protected. Since the whole mission was going to be recorded, he was equipped with cameras on both his legs and his helmet.
- After extensive training, the record-breaking day had arrived. It was October 14th, 2012.
- Baumgartner climbed to 128,100 feet with the high-tech balloon. The sliding doors of the capsule opened, and his most thrilling and terrifying experience began.
- As he was falling, his speed was accelerating, and so was his heartrate. He could see the earth’s curve. He was both amazed and terrified.
- The moment he reached his maximum velocity, he slowed down. He was in a free fall for 4 minutes and 20 seconds before deploying his parachute at 8,200 ft.
- His mission was a success, despite the minor difficulties. His excitement for the supersonic fall that broke all the records was indescribable.
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[@randomcomment5492]

He didnt get to high fiv him :(

[@melluvsyou_]

lOL.

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That's funny

[@mohammedtawil5897]

"He could see the Earth's curve" Flat earthers: ......

[@itsshivsworld2877]

Yeah many people told that is a fish lenses or something like that

[@hapwn]

Ikr... The CURVE lol...is so PLANE to see! Pun intended 😂👌

[@flattony7556]

So why does the inside camera show a flat horizontal line yet the outside fish eyed lens show a huge curve? 🤔

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[@bose5160]

@@flattony7556 I'm not saying "flat earth" but during the liftoff portion of the jump you can see the 'curve' of the Earth from an external camera from just above 9000 feet. That would be impossible.

[@daania333]

Teacher: whats the most extreme thing youve ever done? Me: falling down of my bed

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Ha! Ha!

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Mst extreme comment i have ever see 😂😂😂

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"Red Bull gives you wings."

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Ya,sure does

[@vrmil6843]

dude a redbull ad just popped up 💀

[@mrvoidschannel359]

A

[@athenaoverton4270]

Yeah

[@olithebackslapper9112]

8:43 Felix just wanted to give a high five!!!

[@Furukan455]

Ikr

[@sudhars]

My parents told this is how they went to school everyday

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Lol

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Lol 🤣🤣🤣

[@prajwalpravasa5224]

Hahahaahaha

[@jairajgautam8807]

Lol hahahah

[@davecomrad750]

Mine too

[@windcat8449]

Wooow.. I love the way joseph kittinger supports him.. Like a father to a son.. 💓💓💓 woooow..

[@yeabsira1523]

you will be successful this year ❤ thx have a good day

[@safamohamud7218]

Thanks

[@Vindtum]

Thank you

[@soup6381]

Thanks alot mate

[@alphariusfuze8089]

Thanks

[@kuruptedwolves7518]

Thx

[@gooner72]

The whole Red Bull documentary was brilliant, Felix did an amazing job and he was coached by the bloke who did it in the 60's...... 2 true legends.

[@krealyesitisbeta5642]

Felix Baumgartner is such a pro gamer, he never in his life, took fall damage.

[@materdoit5667]

/gamerule falldamage false

[@materdoit5667]

That's how he did it

[@shuangcui5528]

LOL Minecraft rules

[@mrmythic87]

yea no more fall damage for him;(

[@dianaparente6157]

Lol

[@evoevannismo8141]

I'd be terrified to the point I pass out. This man has the nuts of steel to pull off this treacherous stunt. What a dare devil indeed that he is one without too much worry.

[@sarahhogue8590]

My grandfather broke the speed of sound record in the Salt flats in Utah. He was on a motorcycle. I would love to try something like that one day!

[@damianbaran360]

yeet

[@spidermummin8958]

yeet

[@kjz-kun653]

”A human who is faster than speed of sound” Superman: am I joke to you? Speed of sound: do I look joke to you?

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[@devilguy8733]

Speed of light : am I a joke to you all ???

[@kjz-kun653]

Speed of sound: im sorry

[@str4005]

*Do I sound like a joke to u*

[@lukechristy9509]

Me: looks of the side of my bed. Me: struggles not to scream from fear of heights. Felix: I jumped from outer space to earth and I have the same name as pewdiepie! Beat that!

[@dillongreer2402]

Cooooolllllll

[@cloudifyph]

___'InuYasha' ___ heck

[@mrmythic87]

I'm just like u dont feel bad

[@urmilashahi5344]

If we travel faster than speed of light then we will be also able to time travel

[@hazelcarey2735]

hole

[@manpreetsingh7749]

8:49 MISSION PASSED RESPECT+++++

[@Discoveringbandsbymichaelnagy]

Yes much respect for him doing this!!

[@derrickharris8050]

I saw that live and it was something to see. The jump was similar to the one from Star Trek the movie. Felix is a bad dude. Love the guy!

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Hi Brightside just want to say hi 👋!!!

[@sid2279]

That's sooooooooo cool; yet terrifying

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I sub

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U first

[@Wholelottahavoc]

KDRAMA FULL EPISODES me always first

[@WarriorsPhoto]

The only thing that would have made this video better would have been showing the actual fall or skydive. (: Either way, I enjoyed it a lot.

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

If I'm flying at the speed of light That means I'm always in darkness...

[@umeshbk254]

Just A Dio Who's A Hero For Fun yes

[@tubbyqueen]

But that’s ok

[@awsomekeira6943]

Umesh BK ws

[@andrewm6424]

I remember watching this fall on the Discovery Channel when I ran into it channel-surfing. I seriously was scared that I was going to watch a man die on live television. And yet, I was so intrigued at the thought of seeing this man jump safely from outer space, that I spent the next two hours just waiting to see a daredevil jump to the Earth.

[@hbrowneyes4981]

I remember watching this live on tv . I wish they would replay it .

[@1totalhitman]

Mate. It was live on KZbin. Just search the video.

[@AgdaFingers]

I remember seeing this on television when it happened. There was also a re-enactment done with LEGOs.

[@blobfish1829]

lol, next thing he’ll jump from: the moon

[@lukechristopher1137]

😂

[@xixin5269]

Thats already done by saitama..

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@@xixin5269 im about to say that :(

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@Lucky RZ hahahaha

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Hello fellow otakus

[@WhatSoEv3r]

I guess you could say this guy was...OUT OF THIS WORLD!

[@turg532]

Its funny because I just finished watching a 2 hour long doc about red bull stratos in school, and yesterday was their 7 year anniversary

[@googletricksyz]

Great Achievement! Looks like you are really fearless!

[@CaptainLin1]

Here Before 100k Views

[@SB_M7-p6p]

Nobody: My teacher: what was the most extreme thing you have done? Me:killed a spider

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First

[@jackier3046]

I remember watching this on TV. It was super cool to watch! I didn’t even think that type of jump was possible!

[@cabooseresurrected5183]

They call it the “HALO Jump”.

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Caboose Resurrected .

[@melluvsyou_]

Caboose Resurrected.

[@LB-tl3vx]

Actually it would be a High Altitude High Opening Jump or HAHO I think he deployed around 12,000ft

[@1hard2findbro]

You really need to see the live footage of this epicness 👀 🙌

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Yup

[@ajdintb]

I actually watched this with my brother live on tv

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Bright side: a man who jumped from space to Earth Me: of course, Redbull gave him WINGS

[@Astrophysics__]

Felix's college teacher: What was the most extreme thing you have done felix :Felix: Jumped from space to the earth

[@NotboyXD]

what a nice video

[@harminh]

4:45 did you realise that he said *FREE FRALING*

[@hansasoni2337]

Lol

[@swasthikmahesh718]

there is no explanation for his courage .i do not think nobody will be able to break that record sooner or later

[@5scbasher17]

I once reached mach 1 while running to the restroom take a dump.

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Hehe ur so fummmy

[@krishnapurampraneeth3770]

This guy's vedio has been in KZbin already but still as this is a famous channel has uploaded vedio about this guy now now he will become more popular.Thanks from my side for making him more popular he is like a role model for me from when he did this and I knew about him.

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I bet he is single. He loves falling and no one catches him. :(

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So he catches himself

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yea hes single

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Great one 😂😂😂

[@exakins4014]

In the US, "space" begins at 80.4km (50 miles), or 264,000 feet. General international consensus sets a similar limit for the start of space as 100km (62 miles), or 380,000 feet. "Low Earth Orbit" (LEO), where many satellites live, goes from 160km (100 miles, 525,000 feet) to 2,000km (1,240 miles, 6.5 million feet). Yeah 120,000 isn't even close.

[@SilentKillerMC21]

but its above the stratosphere.....

[@manwithtwoeyes6911]

I remember just missing it live.

[@just_jared_bailinga1363]

Felix gets to space to earth in 4 minutes My pizza gets 1 hour to go to my house So a big record then

[@eljoethegoat2405]

0:37 😂 Repeat that 10 times😂

[@chickenoof6982]

?

[@savageshrek3738]

Anyone else realize that he was in the air for 4 minutes and 20 seconds?

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Savage Shrek That’s because he was really high. 😉

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Thomas Lloyd ah yes I see now

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Yes finally malaysia is in a video! Geng malaysia like sikit!!

[@tallbrownman]

"base jump is the most dangerous sport in the world" So jumping off a top bunk bed is dangerous?

[@extremerobot1235]

You tempted me

[@extremerobot1235]

I’m not gonna do it I’m just thinking about it

[@extremerobot1235]

I did it

[@winstermanyt3870]

That's completley Insane

[@azuricdom9037]

The most extreme thing I’ve done was I slept in a tent in my backyard overnight without my phone

[@mrmythic87]

eh

[@oxigenplays135]

This is so cool if we see the camera end he is jumping

[@boldcounsel9406]

"You can't see the Earth's curve from up there... That stuff is FLAT." -Neil DeGrasse Tyson (talking about this jump)

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Bold Counsel The earth isn’t flat.

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@@danielledewitt1 how do you know?

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spyKitten * I went to school and learned there about the earth not being flat.

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Do you two have evidence?

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I don’t think he broke all the records. I think one record is still held by Joseph Kittinger. I watch this live on tv and it was a super exciting event. I was so pumped and on the edge till he touched down.

[@JoseGranny]

I watched the Baumgartner one in real time. It really was exciting!

[@marioyippie1132]

Ales my heart rate go up just listening to this

[@justinianjequinto4409]

8:03 "...he could see the Earth's curve..."

[@harleen9488]

Because its radius is 6400km and thus appears to be flat but from a height as in the video earth's can be easily seen

[@kay-O-kin]

Just because it has a curve does not mean it's a sphere plates have curves too plus if he was that high he should have seen the earth spinning at how many thousands of miles per hour? Wake up research flat earth there is so many errors in the heliocentric model but the giocentric is far more accurate

[@boldcounsel9406]

It was shot with a fisheye lens (which curves straight lines). Look at the thumbnail. Where are the oceans? If that's the "curve," then New Mexico is 1/3 of the planet.

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Kay - O Well the earth is a sphere.

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@@danielledewitt1 u don't know that but believe what u want

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That looks like fun

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bright side uploads every 10PM me:why?

[@c3pean250]

I'm from Austria and this is true because I even watched it live

[@davidf399]

When you realize this is actually old.

[@mrmythic87]

I dont care

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@@mrmythic87 ok

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Fix-It-Felix to Fearless Felix

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Woo I made it 5th comment finnaly I made it early >:D

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xkawaiikittykatx not its fourth comment mine is 5th

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@xkawaiikittykatx once I was first on a bright side vid

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@@ItzSoltz I wish I could be that fast XD

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I'm amazed legit 200IQ ADDED

[@lightyt4220]

The man literally has the name as PEWDIEPIE like if u noticed 🤣

[@gordonlawrence4749]

Felix Baumgartner only held the record for a short while and Alan Eustace beat it by near enough 1.5 miles back in 2014. Eustace also exceeded 1300km/h (812 MPH). Basically Kittinger's record lasted from 1960 to 2012 and Baumgartner's record stood for less than 2 years with Eustace holding the record for 5 years so far.

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3:50 he says, "joe jumped from a helium balloon" it shows a hot air balloon

[@mrmythic87]

Hah

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Excellent

[@rickylafleur9601]

FIRSTCOMMENT

[@Mytorturedsenses]

You know it's actually really dangerous to go above the speed of sound because just a house fly could go straight through you

[@JanTheAnnoying]

how about me jumping from moon to the earth surface.... In roblox

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"Jumping off moon and land on earth simulator"

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Very inspiring

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_"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to your goal not to objects and things"_ -*By a KZbinr*

[@kranz9382]

Luckily I have one in my back garden

[@yaliw3322]

Sorry bright side, a person broke the record of highest fall at 130,000 ft 2 years later, not 120,000 but he did get the guiness word records of biggest balloon travel.

[@playerdarsh123]

I can’t do anything like that

[@bilalykko7]

Duh

[@CCNB04]

Not with that attitude.

[@jer842]

🙄 Duh

[@Emilia-nz8is]

the live video of this jump is awesome aswell

[@areamusicale]

I always thought that past 55km/h we hit the terminal velocity .... air resistance, y'know? Physics?

[@sebastiannolte1201]

The air resistence depends on the air density. The air becomes thinner when you go higher. Finally you even have more or less a vacuum. So with higher altitude the terminal velocity is higher. He jumped from 39 km, air pressure there is already less than 1 % comparing to sea level. He reached 1356 km/h only for a short time, then he slowed down continuosly as the air density increases. At an height of 2.5 km he had only 200 km/h and opened the parachute. Actually about 200 km/h is terminal velocity for a human being on such altitude. I don't know where you 55 km/h comes from.

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I have seen felix video of jumping from space it was legendary

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Nice video BRIGHT SIDE!

[@Semper_Fish]

Space has zero g but he seemed to fall just fine. Try again.

[@sikkgamer5388]

there is no such thing as zero gravity

[@sebastiannolte1201]

Space doesn't have "Zero G". Never wondered why satellites and the moon orbit around the earth? Earth's gravity pulls on them. Without it, they would just fly away.

[@sebastiannolte1201]

@TheAstro30 irrelevant.

[@Charles25192]

@@sebastiannolte1201 Space begins at 100km, not 36.

[@sebastiannolte1201]

@@Charles25192 100 km is the Karman-line. At that altitude the necessary speed to get aerodynamic uplift becomes as high as orbital speed. That definition originally was used to distinguish aeronautics from astronautics and then became the most used definition for the beginning of space. But us is arbitrary, if course. The atmosphere becomes thinner fluently - and has nothing to do with gravity or zero g. Nothing special happens when you pass 100 km. He would just fall down like here also if he would jump from 139 km instead if 39 km.

[@cozz124]

He’s not falling he’s flying with style.

[@farahsaeed2547]

What an incredible story

[@Airbear211]

This guy broke the record with 04:20 minutes of free falling, and his birthday is 04/20/1969 🤯

[@RecklessMienshao]

I droped a small snowball from around the top of mt. Fuji which almost coverd to homes in snow and that snow ball turned out to be massive...

[@lago1892]

Hi I’m Felix Baumgardner i saw this video thank you for doing this for me

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I know it! So, He is that GUY! Wow!

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You just learned that from a video I watched it to!!!

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Yes

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Awesome!

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hi love your vidos super much

[@sherry8174]

felix jumping from mars to jupiter in 30 seconds epic

[@andrewosuri]

Felix: Wow the earth is curved Camera:🌍🌎🌏 Flat earthers.........?

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Hi I Love your videos

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Guy falls from space to earth in 4 minutes and my pizza takes 1 hour to be delivered

[@thee1956]

Yes!