![]() For almost 35 seconds I couldn't sense the air around me because basically there was none. ![]() It feels like you are floating into space, and then you pick up speed very fast - but you don't feel the air because the air density is so low. Here's how he described the supersonic freefall, in this morning's Red Bull Stratos statement: This is one cool character under pressure - you'd have to be, really, after more than 2,000 skydives, including jumping off the tallest buildings in the world, or into the occasional deep, dark cave. His cranial region, "the area of most concern," remained under 2 G for the duration of his spin. The G meter on Baumgartner's wrist never experienced the 6 continuous seconds at 3.5 G that would have triggered deployment of his stabilization parachute.He was in a "flat spin" for about 13 seconds during a stretch of turning and spinning that reached a maximum rate of 60 revolutions per minute.He experienced 25.2 seconds of absolute weightlessness during the initial stage of his freefall.His respiratory rate hit a maximum of 30 to 43 breaths per minute during the freefall.My palms were surely sweatier.) That compares with Baumgartner's heartbeat of 40 to 100 bmp during the "prelaunch oxygen prebreathe." (I think my heartbeat was higher just watching the you-are-there video stream. His heartbeat reached a maximum of 185 beats per minute (bpm) when he exited the capsule and ranged from 155 to 175 bpm during freefall - 169 bpm when he hit Mach 1.25.Either way, it still rounds out to a dizzying 24 miles up. The jump altitude, meanwhile, wasn't quite so high as earlier thought - it now stands at 127,852.4 feet, down less than the length of a football field from the previous estimate of 128,100 feet. Red Bull Stratos now says the maximum vertical speed was 843.6 mph, or Mach 1.25, ever so slightly faster than the earlier reported 833.9 mph, or Mach 1.24. The numbers didn't change a whole heck of a lot from the preliminary findings. Red Bull Stratos this morning released what it says is the final data from the October 14 freefall. The certification for Baumgartner's jump from his balloon-slung capsule may now be a little closer. For that, we're all still waiting for validation of the data by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that regulates air sporting events and certifies record claims for aviation and aerospace achievements. But it's not yet a world record (or as Baumgartner's group expects, several world records).
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