If Baumgartner is successful, the Red Bull Stratos mission will break four world records: the altitude record for freefall, the distance record for longest freefall, the speed record for fastest freefall by breaking the speed of sound with the human body, and the altitude record for the highest manned balloon flight.īaumgartner during a test flight. “If we can prove that you can break the speed of sound and stay alive I think that is a benefit for future space exploration.” “This is the biggest goal I can dream of,” Baumgartner said. Red Bull Stratos team members say the mission will explore the limits of the human body in one of the most hostile environments known to humankind, in the attempt to deliver valuable lessons in human endurance and high-altitude technology. Sometime during 2010, Baumgartner will make an attempt in his “Red Bull Stratos” mission - named after the energy drink company that co-created the program with the Austrian skydiver. There have been several attempts to surpass Kittinger’s record, but none have succeeded, and people have given their lives for the quest. His jump contributed valuable data that provided ground work for spacesuit technology and knowledge about human physiology for the US space program. Credit: Red Bull Stratosīack in 1960, a US Air Force captain named Joe Kittinger made aerospace history by making a jump from 31,000 meters (102,800 feet). That excites me.”īaumgartner, left with Joe Kittinger.
As such, a piece of me will become immortal.
“If I succeed, I will be the first person to break the sound barrier, alone. “After years of training with my team of dedicated Red Bull Stratos experts, I’ll be going on a journey that no one has ever done,” Baumgartner told Universe Today in an email message. He will travel inside a capsule with a stratospheric balloon to 36,500 meters (120,000 feet) step out and attempt a freefall jump targeted to reach – for the first time in history – supersonic speeds. Felix Baumgartner wants to break the sound barrier with his body, in freefall from the edge of space. The speed of sound - historically called the ‘sound barrier’ – has been broken by rockets, various jet-powered aircraft and rocket-boosted land vehicles.
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