Felix Baumgartner, the Australian daredevil broke three world records in a free-fall jump from space one year ago. To celebrate the first anniversary of the death-defying feat, his sponsor Red Bull has released a new Point of View (POV) video showing the dizzying descent.
According to a report from Digital Trends, the POV footage was captured by several cameras that were attached to the space suit that "Fearless Felix" wore when he made the jump from 24 miles above the Earth.
The video catches not only Baumgartner's bird's eye view of the 128,000 foot free-fall; it also shows a gauge that tracked the Aussie's air speed, g-force, altitude and heart rate through the nearly five-minute endeavor.
The jump, which went down on October 14 of 2012, was a historic one as Baumgartner simultaneously broke three world records. Not only did he break the sound barrier with a top speed of 1,358 kilometers per hour, according to RT.com, but he also broke the records for highest free-fall and highest manned balloon flight.
"When I was standing there in the top of the world so humble, you are not thinking about breaking records," Baumgartner told reporters after the jump. "I was thinking about coming back alive. You do not want to die in front of your parents, all these people. I thought 'please God, don't let me down'."
Red Bull reports that the trip back down to Earth lasted a total of nine minutes and nine seconds, with four minutes and 22 seconds of that time in free-fall. At one point Baumgartner seemed to lose control and start spinning, but quickly righted himself and executed a perfect landing in front of crowds of on-lookers.
"It was an incredible up and down [that] day," Felix said. "First we got off with a beautiful launch...the exist was perfect but then I started spinning slowly. I thought I'd spin just a few times and that would be that, but then I started to speed up."
"It was really brutal at times," he continued. "I thought for a few seconds that I'd lose consciousness...it was really a lot harder than I thought it was going to be."
According to Red Bull, the sponsored jump took Baumgartner and his team five years to train and prepare for. The mission for this feat was designed to improve scientific understanding of how the body copes with the extreme conditions near space.
In addition to the POV video, Red Bull also released a documentary of the historic event. Dubbed "Mission to the Edge of Space: the Inside Story of Red Bull's Stratos," it documents all of the work and preparation that went into the project.
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