First person plunge: Baumgartner's exhilarating space leap (VIDEO)
What is it like to skydive from the edge of space? A brand new and positively breathtaking video shows Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner's record setting jump from a pulse raising point of view perspective.
The new footage, lasting eight minutes and captured by body
mounted GoPro cameras, shows exactly what Baumgartner saw when he
broke the speed of sound while in free-fall.
The video includes the footage of an uncontrollable spin that the
‘space diver’ experienced after jumping from a balloon about 39km
above Earth, sending the viewer into vertigo.
“In that situation, when you spin around, it's like hell and
you don't know if you can get out of that spin or not. Of course
it was terrifying. I was fighting all the way down because I knew
that there must be a moment where I can handle it,” said
Baumgartner as cited by the Daily Mail.
Baumgartner made his death-defying jump in October 2012, becoming
the first human to break the speed of sound by reaching a total
speed of 833.9 mph, or mach 1.24. He also set the records for the
highest balloon ascent and highest parachute jump.
The previous record for the highest parachute jump was held by US
Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger. The new video includes archive
footage of Kittinger’s jump from 31,300 meters back in 1960.
