As you may have known, Felix Baumgartner recently broke the barrier of sound, by skydiving 128,100 feet!  After spending 3 hours in a balloon flying 24 miles up, he then jumped at speeds of 833.9 miles per hour! After free-falling (skydiving without a parachute) for about 7 minutes, he then opened his parachute and was able to land on his feet! You can watch the youtube footage, here. However, before he was even able to leave the balloon, Baumgartner was required to complete a 40-step checklist rehearsing what he would be doing from stepping off the plane, to landing on the ground. Although the jump was assumed to be live, it was actually under a 20 second delay in the small chance Baumgartner’s head exploded!

Although Baumgartner broke the barrier of sound, he did not actually break the worlds free falling record! He was going to attempt to, but when there was confusion about his visor fogging up, he was instructed to jump from his current location. So, what do you think about the crazy jump? Would you ever try skydiving? I think it would be really fun, but 24 miles up?! That’s too much for me!

~Alle Marino