"He made it -- tears of joy from Mission Control,"
his support team said in a live feed.
Rising in a capsule attached to a huge helium balloon,
Baumgartner got to 24 miles up then jumped, thereby setting the record for both
the highest balloon ride and the highest jump ever.
According to Brian Utley, an official observer on the site,
the Austrian man dubbed "Fearless Felix" at one point fell as fast as
Mach 1.24, well above the speed of sound, with nothing but a space suit, helmet
and parachute, his support team said.
Mission Control, though, said during the jump that the
skydiver did not "break the record for time elapsed" before pulling
the parachute.
Tom’s Take: This was
quite the media event Sunday with Twitter, Facebook and other social media
outlets buzzing on the internet. How did
your station tie-in? And how will the
stunt intern on your morning show top it?
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