Skydiver Felix Baumgartner successfully jumped from a height about 3 times higher than your average jetliner cruises – nearly 18 miles high! He was in free fall for over 3 minutes at over 500 miles per hour… In only a flight suit.
According to this CNN interview, His next jump will be 120,000 feet, which will break the sound barrier.
Any puncture of the suit at this height, “where a drop of water would vaporize instantly”, would be instant death.
That guy is stealing my thunder. That’s what I wanted to do!