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(Hosting-NewsWire.com, November 15, 2012 ) Prague, Czech Republic -- Jumping from a capsule taken to 128,100 feet, aka 24 miles (39 km), above the state of New Mexico, Australian skydiver Felix Baumgartner broke the record for highest freefall, and in the meantime, shattered Internet viewing records.
Flocking to their devices to see the historic fall, that took over nine minutes to complete, nearly 8 million people watched the 43-year-old Aussie break the sound barrier live on Youtube. The 8 million broke the former record for live stream viewing at a single time.
Estimated that his speed reached 833.9mph (1,343km/h) and hitting Mach 1.24, the Aussie adventurer had this to say about his stunt:
"On the step, I felt that the whole world is watching," Mr Baumgartner said after the jump.
"I said I wish they would see what I see. It was amazing."
Baumgartner jumped from a capsule which was equipped with cameras in order to offer a live internet feed to millions of people all around the world.
It was confirmed to the BBC by a Google spokesperson that the number of viewers simultaneously watching the stunt live on YouTube was the site's highest ever recorded.
"We congratulate Felix Baumgartner and the entire Red Bull Stratos team for their successful mission, and for creating a live stream with the most concurrent views ever on YouTube," Google wrote on its blog.
Just for the sake of comparison, about 8.3 million people accessed the BBC sport website on the first day of the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Used to record the event was new technology that will have a more long-term application. Felix Baumgartner's body was monitored using equipment from a small UK company, Equivital, during the jump. A system strapped to his chest wirelessly transmitted data regarding the skydiver’s heartbeat, respiration, skin temperature, and other vital signs while in flight.
"It's a major coup for Equivital, which, despite its small size (currently only 25 employees) provides the US Army with its human body monitoring system," Equivital told the BBC News.
The scientists behind the stunt said that Baumgartner had given them invaluable data for the development of high-performance, high-altitude parachute systems, and added that the lessons learned would help in the development of new ideas for emergency evacuation from vehicles, such as spacecraft passing through the stratosphere.
"Part of this programme was to show high-altitude egress, passing through March and a successful re-entry back [to subsonic speed], because our belief scientifically is that's going to benefit future private space programmes or high-altitude pilots, and Felix proved that today," said team principal, Art Thompson.
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