Man breaks Sound Barrier Record in space jump-Jonas Portillo

On October 14th Austrian-born extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has become the first man to break the sound barrier. The 43-year-old leapt from a capsule more than 39km above the earth, reaching a top speed of 1342km/h. THATS FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF SOUND. The altitude he leaped from also marked the highest-ever for a skydiver - more than three times the height of the average cruising altitude for a jetliner.Organizers said the descent lasted just over nine minutes, about half of it in freefall. He travelled 36,529m in freefall for four minutes and 20 seconds before opening his red-and-white parachute and floating down to the desert in New Mexico, said Red Bull Stratos mission record keeper Brian Utley. This is one of the most impossible achievments one can gain. So many thing could have gone wrong. His suit might have torn when he was exiting his space capsule and he might have lost consciousness because of the overwhelming G-force. but everything went perfectly fine. That day is a proud day for mankind.