I Jumped From Space (World Record Supersonic Freefall)

I'm the guy who jumped from space [Music] I wanted to be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier wait twice the weight that I normally have and it's very difficult to do a perfect exit do not over rotate because if I start over rotating there's no air that you can use to slow down foreign [Applause] first 25 seconds it looked like everything is under control [Applause] and after 34 seconds I hit Mach 1 and I broke the speed of sound was that him breaking them yeah that was alcohol I wanted to

be the first human outside of an aircraft breaking the sound barrier because of the fact that a lot of those scientists said prior to the jump you're gonna spin like crazy and the other half said we don't think anything is going to happen I was mentally prepared to spin but I was hoping that I'm not going to spend now if you watch the next couple seconds you see at that moment it slowly starts to spin it's getting faster the problem is there's no protocol there's nobody in the world telling you listening Felix if this happens

you have to do this while the whole world is watching then I was trying to move my arms around a little bit just maybe it does something and then it stopped for a second but now it starts getting the opposite direction you know and then it really ramps up at that moment it's not about breaking records anymore at that moment it's all about survival speed 600 miles per hour there's only one way for the blood to leave your skull and that's through all the eyeballs if that happens you're gonna die I had a chiwis attached

to my hand that she wishes a device that it fires a drug shoot that pulls you out of that flat spin that's why I put my hands in the trick that that G whisp it's less Chi and now the cheese whiz senses oh less cheated means he's getting it under control I turned around and that was stable as well so when you look at my suit you know the more you fall the more depressurized the suit gets and here you can already see the suit flapping look at the sky it's blue now so we went

from black Sky back to Blue Sky if you look at the right corner Luke was dropping some flares and it gives me the perfect direction for the wings now this is a very important moment [Music] very first time after hours and hours inside that spacesuit that I'm breathing regular air so now I'm really happy because even the landing worked just perfect [Applause] [Music]