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Faster than the speed of sound: Supersonic skydiver Fearless Felix hits mach 1.24 in terrifying plummet to Earth from 128,000ft+ h/ }8 K2 l* T) e8 `! s+ S" Q* C

'Fearless Felix' Baumgartner completes astonishing 128,000-foot drop from the top of the stratosphere
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Austrian daredevil had been planning the feat for five years 公仔箱論壇, S) o$ @. `. x- u% Z- X
Previous launches had been delayed due to wind
One tiny error could have resulted in his blood boiling and his brain exploding

By Tom Leonard In New York
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For more than four nerve- racking minutes, he was a tiny white speck against a dark sky, hurtling from 24 miles above the Earth at up to 729mph.Then his parachute opened and five minutes later, to the relief of the millions watching, ‘Fearless Felix’ Baumgartner was back on solid ground – having made the highest and fastest skydive in history .

In the process, the 43-year-old Austrian became the first freefall diver to break the sound barrier, and also broke the record for the highest-ever manned balloon ascent.

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On the edge: 'Fearless Felix' pauses before jumping out of the capsule and plummeting back to Earth

One giant leap: Baumgartner begins his free fall after jumping out of his space capsule

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Falling down: Baumgartner was expected to hit a speed of 690 mph before activating his parachute about 5,000 above the ground in southeastern New Mexico
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He made his death-defying jump from a tiny capsule that took him up to the edge of space after days of delays due to  bad weather.
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The helium inside the capsule’s vast  silver  parachute had expanded to fill nearly 30million cubic feet by the time  Baumgartner opened the hatch, more than 127,000ft above the New  Mexico  desert.
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Less than ten minutes later the professional daredevil reached the ground,  landing on his feet despite  moments during the descent that had silenced his  mission control as he  appeared to lose control and plunge into a  head-over-heels spin.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。3 a7 g/ `( w7 t, X! y
Falling to his knees, he punched the  air in  triumph as his mission control room, packed with scientific  experts and family  including his teary-eyed mother, Eva, erupted into  roars of applause.
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The extreme sportsman has skydived or base-jumped off statues and skyscrapers around the world, but  yesterday’s feat  was easily the biggest challenge of his career. TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。2 O7 ]5 c8 S' U$ x# r+ u

Nobody could be quite sure about the  physical effects of breaking the sound barrier in freefall, and if  Baumgartner’s pressurised spacesuit and helmet had been damaged it could have  been catastrophic.5.39.217.76# q7 A8 N, \0 H+ r" w  S

The multi-million pound attempt,  sponsored  by the energy drink maker Red Bull, had begun before dawn as a support team  unwrapped the huge parachute on a landing strip that had  been hand-cleared of  anything that might damage its thin fabric.5.39.217.761 [) c9 x. W; m. S+ t- S

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Fearless: Baumgartner can be seen falling from the sky during the mission+ a- m- [- F) C' [- l
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Jubilation: Baumgartner celebrates with this crew after  completing the jump
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The ascent took around two-and-a-half hours,  faster than expected. But there were fears the mission would  once again be  cancelled, after he reported that the heating device in  his visor was not working properly,  causing it to mist up.

He and his mentor, Joe Kittinger,  back in  mission control, discussed whether to terminate the attempt.  Kittinger, an  84-year-old US Air Force colonel who set the previous  freefall record in 1960  when he jumped from 102,800 feet, had agreed to  come out of retirement to help  Baumgartner set a new record.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。- P5 k5 @: P* e2 w0 L
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But they decided to go ahead, and as  the  balloon stopped rising, Baumgartner began conducting his final exit  checks.  In his bulky, specially made suit, the skydiver had little room to maneouvre inside the capsule and had to slide feet first through the hatch.$ I1 W3 r1 D# p1 t: G6 E, A; a5 s
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Gripping the hand rails on either  side of  the hatch exterior, he hauled himself up on to an outside  platform little  bigger than a skateboard. After a final salute, he fell  forwards in what his  team describes as ‘bunny hop’ – pushing out with  both feet at the same time to  avoid falling into a potentially fatal  flatspin.
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As hoped, he was soon plunging down  headfirst through the air. His 70-strong team of engineers, doctors and  scientists, which spent five years planning the attempt, had estimated  he  would fall at around 700mph in the first 50 seconds.
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But he managed to plunge even faster, reaching 729mph during the first 50 seconds of the four minute, 22  second  freefall. He communicated with Col Kittinger via a radio built  into his suit  but he sounded largely unintelligible until he could be  heard complaining once  more about his visor fogging up. But by then he  was already falling into warmer  altitudes and by the time he had opened  his parachute, he had long since  regained control.

His success left Col Kittinger with  only one  record – for the longest time spent in a freefall. But he was  clearly as  relieved as anyone to see the others broken at last. 5.39.217.76- z7 S7 |7 K/ ]$ u! @: }- `
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‘Couldn’t have done it better myself,’ he  joked as Baumgartner glided to the ground.5.39.217.76" |1 M1 y! b) L" r

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Top of the world: Felix Baumgartner steps out of his capsule after reaching a height of nearly 128,000 feet above Earth
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Stepping out: Felix Baumgartner's feet can be seen outside the capsule as he prepares to jump from the edge of space

Chute: Baumgartner floats down to the ground with the  help of a parachute after the successful leap

Baumgartner stepped out of a capsule  pulled  by a 55-story helium balloon after it had reached the height of  127,718 feet.  As he softly landed on Earth with the help of a parachute  about five minutes  later, Baumgartner raised his hands in victory.

'Sometimes we have to get really high to see  how small we are,' an exuberant Baumgartner told reporters  outside mission  control, shortly after the jump. He was expected to  offer more remarks at an  afternoon news conference.

Baumgartner was expected to hit a  speed of  690 mph before activating his parachute about 5,000 above the  ground in  southeastern New Mexico. A member of his team told  CNN that he achieved a speed of 833  mph, or mach 1.24 - breaking the speed of sound.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。; l8 Y1 M3 N0 q+ t: |' e
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Before sunrise the former Austrian  paratrooper's crew began unpacking the 30 million cubic foot helium  balloon to  hoist the capsule that will carry him 23 miles up in the sky.

The three-hour ascent began on Sunday at about 9.30am MDT. The jump was  postponed  due to wind on Monday, then aborted twice more for the same  reason on Tuesday  and  Thursday. Meteorologists say conditions will finally be favorable for  the  jump Sunday morning.
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Any contact with the  capsule on his exit could have torn his pressurized suit, a rip that  could  expose him to a lack of oxygen and temperatures as low as minus-70 degrees. That  could have caused lethal bubbles to form in his bodily  fluids.公仔箱論壇9 K( n2 E6 f8 c+ `3 r# M/ I
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But none of that happened.  He  activated his parachute as he neared Earth, gently gliding into the  desert  east of Roswell and landing without any apparent difficulty. ; q% T2 \* I# ^' t' e

The  images triggered  another loud cheer from onlookers at mission control,  among them his mother,  Eva Baumgartner, who was overcome with emotion,  crying.

He then was taken by  helicopter to meet fellow members of his team, whom he hugged in  celebration.
The balloon is so delicate that it can take  off only if winds on the ground are 2 mph or less. Checking through an equipment  list from his seat in the pressurized capsule, Baumgartner, 43, expressed  concern that his astronaut-like helmet was not heating properly.' S- `+ }( |4 ?) L  w

'This is very serious, Joe,' said Baumgartner  as the capsule, designed to remain at 55 degrees Fahrenheit ascended in skies  where temperatures were expected to plunge below -91.8 F (-67.8 C), according to  the project's website. 'Sometimes it's getting foggy when I exhale. ... I do not  feel heat.'5.39.217.76- S4 ^3 L. d, u$ f

Baumgartner was disappointed 'like the  rest  of us' but taking a couple of days of critical downtime, his  high-performance  athletic trainer, Andy Walshe, said on Wednesday.公仔箱論壇0 B2 A+ I' E( k6 R

Team meteorologist Don Day noted during a  media briefing at the Roswell  launch site that weather delays are common in  stratospheric ballooning.公仔箱論壇# a8 K) h' ^9 T; |6 [  f

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Grounded: Baumgartner raises his hands in the air after a safe landing from 24 and a half miles above the earth

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Pride: Members of Baumgartner's family watch triumphantly as he completes the jump

Mission control: The members of Baumgartner's team keep  an eye on the extreme skydiver as he ascends further and further above  Earth

As Baumgartner dropped, his lead team member  Joe Kittinger told him: 'Our guardian angel will take care of  you.'7 ~* B3 {1 U: e

Kittinger first attempted to break the sound  barrier from 19.5 miles up in 1960, reaching speed of 614 mph. He was the only  member of  mission control who could communicate directly with Baumgartner  during the nearly three-hour ascent in a pressurized capsule.
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Kittinger said his 1960 jump, the first  attempt to break the sound  barrier, also was delayed by weather. He leapt from  a helium  balloon-floated, open-air gondola from an altitude of 19.5  miles.
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'I was ready to go and had to wait,'  Kittinger said at the briefing.  'It's frustrating. But you have to go through  it. What you see is what  you get.'
Kittinger reached 614 mph, or Mach 0.9.  Baumgartner, a former military  parachutist from Austria, hopes to reach 690  mph, or Mach 1 - faster than the speed of sound.

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Predecessor: Joe Kittinger, who held the previous record for a freefall to Earth, cheers as Baumgartner completed his jump

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Lift: Baumgartner is pictured right with crew members before the launch, and in his capsule as it's pulled skyward by a sophisticated weather balloon, left0 R* f$ h* R v: ?, n9 A

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Time to go to work: Baumgartner is pictured on Sunday stepping out of a trailer in preparation for his ascent into the edge of space

Away we go: Felix Baumgartner is lifted into the air by  a massive balloon, the first step in his major jump
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Kittinger also was involved in the Air  Force's Excelsior project, making a series of parachute jumps from helium  balloons in the stratosphere in 1959 and 1960. Excelsior was a test bed for the  nation's space program. With one balloon flight, 'we waited 30 days and we never  got it off,'  Kittinger said.
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The energy drink maker Red Bull, which is  sponsoring the feat, has been promoting a live Internet stream of the event from  nearly 30 cameras on the capsule, the ground and a helicopter.

But organizers said there will be a 20-second  delay in their broadcast of footage in case of a tragic accident./ r# E9 Z7 @( U4 \! X) r
After the jump, Baumgartner says he plans to  settle down with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and  firefighting missions in the U.S. and Austria.
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Baumgartner's team had hoped to make the  launch in the summer, when  there is less wind, but was forced to delay it until  October because of problems with the capsule.9 H" e9 J3 A  ^/ `1 [" @7 P  K( o- u
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One of the disappointments of Tuesday's  aborted launch was losing the  balloon. The balloons are so fragile that once  they are taken out of the box, they cannot be reused. The team has one more  balloon. Team members said they are looking for a backup, but that could take  four weeks or  more.

As he ascended high above the earth,  Baumgartner took to Twitter to greet his fans from space.5.39.217.76' L# s. i; |* R/ F7 b6 h
He tweeted: 'Live from space! World you are  beautiful.'

Art Thompson, the project's technical  director, said there likely would  be windows in the weather for making the jump  through November, but  declined to speculate on long-term plans beyond  that.

The jump is being sponsored by energy drink  maker Red Bull. The costs  have not been disclosed.  h( ]8 ?( o, b8 H% N1 I
But Thompson said on Wednesday the balloons  cost  several hundred thousand dollars each, and he estimated the team lost  $60,000 to $70,000 in helium with the aborted jump.! E% e  n1 j2 c" u
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Weather conditions at the Roswell launch site  caused Tuesday's delay as Baumgartner's three-hour ascent in a high-altitude  balloon cannot start unless ground wind speeds are below two miles an  hour.5.39.217.766 x3 y) S4 f( @8 k; E

The record-breaking attempt had been  scheduled to begin at 11.30am but the launch was called off at 11.46am local  time.0 Y/ E4 w7 x6 f1 P- S
Meteorologists said Wednesday morning should  have provide ideal weather conditions for the Austrian as he attempts to become  the first human to break the sound barrier unaided by a vehicle.

However, when the Austrian finally entered  the capsule just before 11am MDT, the crews discovered that winds 700 feet above  the ground, at the top of the balloon, were 20 mph, which was far above the safe  limit of 3 mph.  z/ f- j1 I5 s
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Keeping in touch: Baumgartner shouted out to his fans on Twitter, from more than 100,000 feet above earth
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After the flight was postponed for  the  second time in as many days, some openly wondered whether there was a deliberate  attempt by the Red Bull Stratos team to build suspense.

Sources close to Red Bull have allegedly said  that the jump was never intended  to occur before tomorrow to ensure 'maximum  coverage' and must take  place before 6pm in Europe to hit newspaper deadline  times on the  continent.公仔箱論壇; v- E+ L' Z  t) ^5 p
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During weekend practices, Baumgartner went  over the technical  details in the capsule before sitting solemnly in his  trailer, wearing  his specially designed $200,000 suit, to gather his thoughts. TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。% ?  a4 n3 A# f0 m9 w# E, }

Red Bull Stratos  announced on Friday that the  jump had been moved from Monday to Tuesday due to  a cold front with gusty winds.

Coincidentally, Sunday also marks the 65th anniversary of U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager's  successful  attempt to become the first man to officially break the sound barrier aboard an  airplane.

Finishing touches: Felix Baumgartner is prepped for the  historic skydive today% N/ D, E2 m! S8 o. m; @+ y
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Baumgartner plans to  travel faster than the speed of sound with only the benefit of a high-tech  suit.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; `3 N; N4 x. |& B# l  M  z

Dr. Jonathan Clark,  Baumgartner's medical director, has told reporters he  expects the pressurized  spacesuit to protect him from the shock waves of breaking the sound barrier. , p1 B3 K0 o0 e: y
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If all goes well and he  survives the jump,  NASA could certify a new generation of spacesuits for  protecting  astronauts and provide an escape option from spacecraft at 120,000  feet, he said.5.39.217.766 n2 n8 k4 ^7 Y% V& X- g1 H
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Any contact with the  capsule on his  exit could tear the pressurized suit. A rip could expose him to  a lack  of oxygen and temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero. It could  cause potentially lethal bubbles to form in his bodily fluids, a  condition  known as "boiling blood."TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。1 Z& _/ D5 b4 D3 J' ]: s
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The nightmare scenario that Felix’s project  director likens to a ‘horror  film’ would involve his blood boiling, brain  bursting and eyeballs  popping out - all of it watched live via the internet  around the globe.5.39.217.767 g- }! G8 J! N/ e9 C- {
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This may sound like the sort of  lunatic feat  that no one but a man who has spent 20 years at the more  extreme end of extreme  sports would want anything to do with. % c0 Q" o0 C2 v; T. [

But a team of engineers, doctors and  pilots  have spent five years working alongside Baumgartner, 43, to  ensure he gets down  alive and in one piece.
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Banishing talk of nerves, he says he would  never jump if the odds were against him. And he insists he didn’t have a death  wish.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb4 n7 `) k8 B* s8 _( w7 A7 c
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Of the skeptics who will be holding  their  hands in front of their eyes as he hurtles towards Earth at nearly 700mph, he  says simply: ‘I think they underestimate the skills of a  skydiver.’
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Fearless Felix  has been flinging himself out  of planes and off skyscrapers for years. tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb7 {& W/ C% z3 K7 K0 m9 Y

Sunrise skydive: Workers prepare at the launch site,  ahead of an attempt by Felix Baumgartner to break the speed of sound with his  own body by jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon
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He has clocked up 2,500 skydiving jumps,  including one in which he  became the first person to 'fly' across the English  Channel, with  carbon-fibre wings strapped to his back.
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He has performed various  horrifying ‘base  jumps’, freefalling off the Christ statue in Rio and  leaping head-first into a  pitch black, 620ft-deep cave in Croatia.5.39.217.762 O3 c! v9 T& k0 ?- {

Baumgartner has said that the supersonic  plunge will be the end of his 'journey' as a  daredevil.

Rising: Baumgartner's capsule is lifted by a giant  weather balloon
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Ahead of his grand  finale, he has completed  a couple of high-altitude dress rehearsals. In  July, he leapt from 96,640ft - just 6,000ft shy of a world record set in 1960 by Joe Kittinger, a U.S. air  force test pilot. TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。& G) S- B5 x8 H0 W

The grandfather of stratosphere skydiving,  84-year-old Colonel Kittinger  became Baumgartner’s mentor and was the voice he  heard in his  headset as he communicates with mission control before and during  the  jump.$ \0 _  A2 A& V' D/ u2 l( W6 c, o

‘You can feel in your stomach and every part  of your body that  it does not want to be there,’ said the Austrian, a  former military parachutist,  laconically.# ~, N$ ~6 K' q

Baumgartner's body was encased in a specially  designed $200,000 spacesuit. It  has an insulating exterior that can withstand  extreme temperatures, and  an airtight inner layer filled with pressurised  oxygen. % c1 }8 u- _- B0 j+ L: t
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It also has one crucial difference to the  spacesuits worn by astronauts,  which is that it remains highly flexible when it  is fully pressurised.
Baumgartner’s visor is fitted with an  intensely powerful heat regulator that should keep his view free of fog and  frost.

The suit’s 12lb chest pack contains  monitoring and tracking equipment together with a voice transmitter so he can  talk to mission control on the way down. The pack is connected to a device on  his wrist that allows him to monitor his speed and altitude.

The capsule in which he’ll make his ascent is  11ft high and 8ft in diameter, made from fibreglass strengthened by an internal  metal frame, and weighs as much as a Volkswagen Beetle.7 B$ E& }' j, E: H

It was designed by some of the  scientists  who created the U.S. stealth bomber and is based on the  famous Nasa Apollo  rocket, but with a few key design differences.

The exit hatch is bigger for a start,  designed to prevent the sort of  catastrophe that befell Soviet high-altitude sky diver Pyotr Dolgov in  1962. Struggling to leave his capsule  in his cumbersome spacesuit,  Dolgov cracked his visor slightly on the door. : s6 d+ b4 I) p& ^6 h: m
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He was dead by the time he landed, a victim  of ebullism, the terrifying  condition in which the drastically lower air  pressure above 62,000ft  makes liquids in the body start to bubble and vaporise,  inflating the  body and bringing unconsciousness within 15 seconds.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。) J+ i3 K* d. Q% x3 w
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When inflated, it is as high as a 55-story building with a volume of 30 million cubic feet. TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。/ t1 k6 h# Z1 h. |( N0 ^: O2 X

Preparation: A spotlight illuminates the capsule from  which Felix Baumgartner will jump for the world record skydive
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Made from strengthened plastic, it is a tenth  of the thickness of a sandwich bag. Baumgartner has limited space to move around  in the capsule and the balloon will be largely steered remotely from mission  control down on the ground. 2 g5 i2 G2 _7 |- D* O
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When it reaches the jumping height of 120,000ft three times the altitude at which airliners fly - he will  look out  on a black rather than blue daytime sky while he waits for the  final ‘clear to  jump’ message from mission control.

At that point, he will depressurise the  capsule, pressurise his suit and  open the exit door (the capsule will later  automatically detach from  the balloon and parachute back to Earth).

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Out of the gate: Baumgartner steps out from his trailer  during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos
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On Twitter, half the worldwide trending  topics had something to do with the jump, pushing past seven NFL football  games.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。) k% m) V. q: ~
Among the tweets was one from NASA: 'Congratulations to Felix  Baumgartner and RedBull Stratos on record-breaking leap from the edge of  space!'
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This attempt marked the end of a five-year  road for Baumgartner, a record-setting high-altitude jumper. He already made two  preparation jumps in the area, one from 15 miles high and another from 18 miles  high." _& q9 a* h. w" l+ ~% b
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It will also be the end of his extreme  altitude jumping career; he has promised this will be his final jump.公仔箱論壇. b) X: F/ c$ ~3 {/ u- O
Baumgartner has said he plans to settle down  with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting  missions in the U.S. and Austria.

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