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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, ARMENPRESS: Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight on Sunday after his craft rose 23 miles (37 km). As reports Armenpress, this was declared on the press conference which took place on October 15 in New Mexico. The 43-year-old daredevil was inside a capsule tethered to the massive but extremely delicate helium balloon high above Roswell, New Mexico. For those keeping score, Baumgartner, according to preliminary data, had an exit altitude of 128,100 ft, a free fall of 4 min 20 seconds. for a distance of 119,846 feet. Baumgartner achieved a maximum velocity of 373 meters per second, 833.9 miles per hour, faster than the speed of sound, or Mach 1.24.
As reports Armenpress, referring to Itar-Tass, Baumgartner said that the most exciting moment was when he landed and saw the face of life support engineerMike Todd’s faceand the most beautiful was when he was standing above the Earth looking down. Baumgartner noted that he hadn’t felt anything during the flight, hadn’t thought about the record breaking, “I could thing only about coming back alive, seeing my family, parents and girlfriend”.