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It’s official – Iron Man has been born !

1. Highest manned balloon flight – reaching a height just shy of 25 miles

2. World’s highest skydive – Felix jumped from a height of 128 100 feet

3. Longest freefall without a drogue cute – 4 min and 20 sec

4. Fastest freefall for a skydiver – roughly one minute into his jump Baumgartner reached a top speed of 833.9 mph

5. First human to go supersonic during freefall breaking sound barrier – (1,342.8 kph) as Felix hit Mach 1.24

His maximum velocity was an outstanding 833.9 mph, or 373 m/s, meaning that Baumgartner reached Mach 1.24 during his jump.

6. The fourth-highest person near Earth, beat only by the three astronauts living on the International Space Station, which orbits more than 240 miles (386 km) above the planet.

7. Live streaming – at 112 000ft, the Redbull Stratos youtube channel was reporting over 4 500 000 users live streaming the video, with the event going viral over social networks.

8. Most watched live skydiving event in history – drawing more than 7,000,000 viewers from around the world live to YouTube alone, while millions more watched the event live on television.

… am sure there is a long list of records pertaining to the technology that has been used too !

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