The pictures weren't this good.
And it took days

He's jumped and coming home!!!

I about shit my pants when he stepped off the platform.

Visor is fogged, he's in control, CUTE OPEN!

Chute has opened. I don't think he beat the freefall time record, but he got the altitude record.

Wow!!! Huge congrats to everyone! Amazing.

Can't have both, either go for freefall time at min ROD or speed record at max ROD which will shorten his freefall time. Amazing the freefall record was set in 1960! Visor fogging must have been a major annoyance.

Pretty cool!!

That's the coolest thing I've watched in a long time.

That was wild! Thanks for posting the link!

The old guy in mission control was the previous altitude holder.

Job well done.

(I still aint jumping out of a perfectly good vehicle)

Zzz wrote:20 F outside the capsule during depressurization? Seems like the oat probe is getting dusted a little with cabin air or something.

Once you pass like 80k it actually starts warming up again, but ya, it could've jumped at at depress too probably.

Congrats Felix! Very proud!

Well done Felix!!

Well done RedBull

Well done YouTube

Well done GoPro... I'm sure we're gonna see the output of those chest and suit cams pretty soon. Friggin' scary watching that spin/tumble on the IR camera. What RPM do you get to before your head explodes? No air damping to make it stop either. Next pressure suit needs some reaction control jets before the general public starts trying this.

Most exciting media event I've watched in years. Thx for posting the link.

Tadpole wrote:Once you pass like 80k it actually starts warming up again, but ya, it could've jumped at at depress too probably.

I learned of that while checking their mission info page the other day...something about the ozone layer trapping heat in between strata? You can "scroll" Felix up through the atmosphere and see the data.

However, when we were seeing the live telemetry during the jump, the OAT read 11.9 F at 127K and change, then when he started depressurizing the capsule, it jumped to like 21 F.

porterjet wrote:The old guy in mission control was the previous altitude holder.

Job well done.

(I still aint jumping out of a perfectly good vehicle)

Seriously, that was Joe Kittinger? He looks pretty good for 84! I hope I'm doing that good at that age.

Av8r3400 wrote:
Seriously, that was Joe Kittinger? He looks pretty good for 84! I hope I'm doing that good at that age.

Yep. Has to feel good knowing the voice of mission control has been right where you are, experienced all the same stuff. He was sharp, too! A good partner in the mission.

Joe leaving his open, unheated, unpressurized gondola in 1960 for his record setting jump. Amazing how far the technologies have come.

Zzz wrote:Being born well after the apollo moon landing, I only ever experienced shuttle launches as a kid. Watching this kinda thing live is so exciting!

I agree! That was cool to watch. I was kinda holding my breath watching him tumble though during his freefall.

One of the coolest things I have seen for certain!

The out of control tumbling out the door was something else. No air to push against. As the air thickened he was able to get stable. I bet at that point he felt pretty good about things.


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aktahoe1 wrote:As the air thickened he was able to get stable. I bet at that point he felt pretty good about things.

Yes, I can imagine.

Is there a video uploaded yet? I didn't see but a minute of it ascending before the errors.