Last week I wrote about
Felix Baumgartner and his record
breaking jump. After a couple of cancels due to bad weather, the jump has been
done now.
“Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we
are,
Baumgartner is reported to have said shortly after completing the jump. I
am so happy for him, and inspired.
Austrian extreme athlete
Felix Baumgartner landed
gracefully on Earth Sunday after a 38.6-kilometre jump from the stratosphere in
a dramatic, record-breaking feat that may also have marked the world’s first
supersonic skydive.
Baumgartner came down in the eastern New Mexico desert
about nine minutes after jumping from his capsule 39,044 metres, or roughly
38.62 kilometres, above Earth. He lifted his arms in victory shortly after
landing, setting off loud cheers from jubilant onlookers and friends inside the
mission’s control centre in Roswell, New Mexico.
