Austrian skydiver and base jumper Felix Baumgartner released his own multi-camera, full point-of-view video a year after he made the 128,000 feet space jump to Earth in October 2012.
Felix Baumgartner is a famous daredevil known for his dangerous stunts even when he was in the Austrian military. He was able to break the records for skydiving after he took the jump for the Red Bull Stratos Project.
On October 14, 2012 Baumgartner was the first to travel faster than sound with only a parachute to break his fall. Before this daredevil space jump to Earth, retired U.S Air Force brigadier general Chuck Yeager was also able to break the sound barrier on October 14, 1947 in an aircraft.
Last year the sponsor of the 2012 Space Jump Project released a video showing nine minutes of Baumgartner free-falling from the sky towards the Earth. Viewers were in awe at how fast the space jumper was falling in his pressure suit and parachute. His speed had broken the previous record of skydiving at 1,357.64 km per hour.
A year later, Baumgartner released his own full point-of-view video shoot to show his first-hand experience of travelling in 39 km or 24 miles into Earth's stratosphere over the U.S and New Mexico.
The video was released together with the Red Bull Stratos Project documentary entitled "Mission to the Edge of Space: The inside Story of Red Bull's Stratos." The documentary film may be viewed for a fee through FaceBook at the Rdio music streaming service provider, a partner of RedBull.
Baumgartner‘s video was taken from multi-cameras attached to his suit. It showed different angles of the free fall including how his feet were dangling and included the records of his airspeed, altitude, biomed and G force readings. The sounds of the jump including when the parachute unfolded were also captured well.
To watch the POV video would allow space enthusiasts a thrilling, one-of-kind experience of free-falling at an almost impossible speed similar to the David Bowie stunt in the sci-fi film The Man Who Fell to Earth.
