00:01I'm the guy who jumped from Spaceman.
00:11I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
00:22I almost weigh twice the weight that I normally have
00:25and it's very difficult to do a perfect exit, do not over rotate
00:29because if I start over-rotating, there's no air that you can use to slow down.
00:34Okay, John, I'm ready.
00:36Okay, here we go, Felix.
00:39I'm going home now.
00:50We're away.
00:56First 25 seconds, it looked like everything was under control.
01:05And after 34 seconds, I hit Mach 1 and I broke the speed of sound.
01:10Was that him breaking the...
01:12Yeah.
01:14That was our goal.
01:15I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier.
01:21Because of the fact that a lot of those scientists said prior to the jump,
01:25you're going to spin like crazy and the other half said,
01:27we don't think anything is going to happen.
01:30I was mentally prepared to spin, but I was hoping that I'm not going to spin.
01:36Now, if you watch the next couple of seconds, you see at that moment,
01:40it slowly starts to spin, it's getting faster.
01:45The problem is there's no protocol.
01:47There's nobody in the world telling you, listen, Felix,
01:49if this happens, you have to do this while the whole world is watching.
01:53Then I was trying to move my arms around a little bit,
01:55just maybe it does something and then it stopped for a second,
01:58but now it starts getting the opposite direction, you know,
02:02and then it really ramps up.
02:03At that moment, it's not about breaking records anymore.
02:06At that moment, it's all about survival.
02:08Speed 600 miles per hour.
02:10There's only one way for the blood to leave your skull,
02:14and that's through all the eyeballs.
02:15If that happens, you're going to die.
02:18I had a chi-wisp attached to my hand.
02:20The chi-wisp is a device that it fires a drogue shoot
02:24that pulls you out of that flat spin.
02:27That's why I put my hands in to trick that chi-wisp.
02:32It's less chi, and now the chi-wisp senses,
02:36oh, less chi, that means he's getting it under control.
02:39I turned around, and I was stable as well.
02:44So when you look at my suit, you know, the more you fall,
02:46the more depressurized the suit gets,
02:48and here you can already see the suit flapping.
02:53If you look at the sky, it's blue now, you know,
02:56so we went from black sky back to blue sky.
02:58If you look at the right corner, Luke was dropping some flares,
03:02and it gives me the perfect direction for the wind.
03:04Now this is a very important moment.
03:08The very first time after hours and hours inside that spacesuit
03:11that I'm breathing regular air.
03:15So now I'm really happy because even the landing worked just perfect.
03:20There it is!
03:20That was a perfect one.
03:23Don't forget to come together.
03:24The record collectors!
