I Jumped From Space (World Record Supersonic Freefall)

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00:00I'm the guy who jumped from space.

00:10I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.

00:21I almost weigh twice the weight that I normally have and it's very difficult to do a perfect exit.

00:26Do not over-rotate, because if I start over-rotating, there's no air that you can use to slow down.

00:32Okay, John, we're ready.

00:35Okay, here we go, Felix.

00:37I'm going, hold on.

00:39The first 25 seconds, it looked like everything was under control.

00:48And after 34 seconds, I hit Mach 1 and I broke the speed of sound.

00:54Was that him breaking the sound?

00:55Yes.

00:56That was our goal.

00:57I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.

01:01Because of the fact that a lot of those scientists said prior to the jump, you're going to let

01:03you know the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.

01:08Was that him breaking it?

01:10Yeah.

01:13That was our goal.

01:14I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft

01:17breaking the sound barrier.

01:19Because of the fact that a lot of those scientists said

01:22prior to the jump you're going to spin like crazy

01:25and the other half said we don't think anything is going to happen.

01:29I was mentally prepared to spin,

01:32but I was hoping that I'm not going to spin.

01:35Now, if you watch the next couple seconds,

01:37you see at that moment it slowly starts to spin.

01:40It's getting faster.

01:43The problem is there's no protocol.

01:45There's nobody in the world telling you,

01:47listen Felix, if this happens you have to do this

01:49while the whole world is watching.

01:51Then I was trying to move my arms around a little bit,

01:53just maybe it does something,

01:55and then it stopped for a second,

01:57but now it starts getting the opposite direction,

02:00you know, and then it really ramps up.

02:02At that moment it's not about breaking records anymore,

02:04at that moment it's all about survival.

02:07Speed 600 miles per hour.

02:09There's only one way for the blood to leave your skull,

02:12and that's through all the eyeballs.

02:14If that happens you're going to die.

02:16Speed 700 miles per hour.

02:17I had a chi-wisp attached to my hand.

02:19The chi-wisp is a device that it fires a drogue shoot

02:23that pulls you out of that flat spin.

02:26That's why I put my hands in to trick that chi-wisp.

02:31It's less chi, and now the chi-wisp senses,

02:34oh, less chi, that means he's getting it under control.

02:37I turned around and I was stable as a rock.

02:39So when you look at my suit, you know, the more you fall,

02:44the more depressurized the suit gets,

02:46and here you can already see the suit flapping.

02:51If you look at the sky, it's blue now, you know,

02:54so we went from black sky back to blue sky.

02:57If you look at the right corner,

02:59Luke was dropping some flares,

03:01and it gives me the perfect direction for the wind.

03:03Now this is a very important moment.

03:05Very first time after hours and hours inside that spacesuit

03:10that I'm breathing regular air.

03:13So now I'm really happy

03:15because even the landing worked just perfect.

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