Photo of the Day... This awesome image shows Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian BASE jumper, about to leap out of a custom-designed balloon capsule to skydive from an altitude of 71,581 feet on March 15 of this year. Baumgartner reached a top speed of 364.4 miles per hour, and continued to freefall for 3 minutes, 43 seconds before deploying his parachute and safely landing at a spot that was about 30 miles from his launch site in Roswell, New Mexico. This venture was in preparation for Baumgartner trying to conduct the highest freefall
ever by skydiving at an altitude of 120,000 feet...which should take place this summer.
All I can say is, if "spacediving"
(which is essentially what this is since Baumgartner has to wear an astronaut suit) was made available to the public, it would
totally be more expensive than
a skydiving trip above Mt. Everest (the total price of this trip is around $20,000, I believe)...and
definitely (and obviously) pricier than a
HALO Tandem jump
(which can cost as much as $3,495). Unless I play the
Mega Millions lottery and win $290 million
(which is what the jackpot is currently at), I’ll just stick with saving money for HALO Tandem, thank you.
Jay Nemeth / Red Bull Content Pool
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