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Live footage of Felix Baumgartner attempting to break the sound barrier during a freefall from a balloon in space.

He will be wearing a Zenith Stratos Flying 10th on his wrist throughout.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/l/red-bull-stratos/

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Just saw live footage of it on TV and yes, It did cross my mind what is strapped to his wrist

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"It is just a matter of time!"

HE DID IT.

.....and he landed safely.

Absolutely superb to witness.

Unofficially, he reached over 700mph so we will have to wait to see if he broke the sound barrier.

Regardless of that he did free fall from 24.5 miles, which is a new record. Plus he also gets the record for the highest manned balloon flight and the fastest ever freefall.

The big question is.....Did his Zenith survive?

I'm sure we'll find out soon.

Congratulations Felix Baumgartner and the whole Red Bull Stratos team.

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impressive professionalism.
Not sure he reached Mach 1, but like the fact that the Joe Kittinger record for the longest free fall from 1960 was not broken - that guy is now 84 years old and was an important part of the current team, leading Baumgarter through the checklists like a young guy - this was nice to watch.

Agreed. I'm please Joe still holds one record. Felix was estimated to freefall for 5 minutes and 35 seconds. I'm not sure why this only lasted about 4 minutes and 20 seconds.

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833.9mph - official!

it seems weird that zenith was on board?

Watched it at home with my wife and daughter. When the door of the capsule opened up, revealing the big blue horizon and inky darkness above, watching Baumgartner step out and then jump off the ledge took me back to my childhood watching the Apollo and Gemini missions. It was all so exciting and galvanizing back then. The Shuttle program was important in its own way but making orbital travel a more mundane thing clearly separated it from the emotion and imagination of its predecessors.

Surfing a few YouTube clips of those early missions tonight. There was something today about the immediacy between the jump and the just over 4 minutes when it looked like a normal parachute landing. The whole thing was remarkable to watch. And yes, when I found the old NBC special report intro music and Frank McGee's voice (our home preferred NBC to CBS and Cronkite) the years peeled away and reminded me of how amazing it seemed, particularly to a young boy. Kudos the Zenith for their support of the jump, but they have a little catching up to do, on the space side to Omega and of course Breitling looking at that baloon. The Breitling balloon was probably 100 miles north, at the Albuquerque Balloon Festival, one of the best anywhere. I saw it there two years ago.

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Zenith was a sponsor, their name was all over the place. Watch it again to see the sponsor name.

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