1 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:13,800 WADE EASTWOOD:There was a human being falling from space. 2 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,360 At speeds of live human being has fallen for... 3 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:23,640 faster than the speed of a bullet. 4 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:26,680 [ALL APPLAUDING] 5 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:30,680 -Touchdown. -Holy [BLEEP]. He has done it. 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,200 The global effect of how far it reached took me by surprise. 7 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,440 Incredible. 8 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:40,640 ART THOMPSON: That was viewed by half the world's population. 9 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,960 It seemed like one of these once in a lifetime opportunities. 10 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:46,120 You don't want to miss. 11 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,520 MAN 1:Pass the line, over. 12 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,960 WADE: It was one of those major events. 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:53,720 That's unreal. 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,640 WADE: Where are the TV will turn around, 15 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:57,800 the whole world comes together and watches 16 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,120 that to me, is what Stratos was. 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,320 Felix Baumgartner here... 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,200 They crushed all the records of having people 19 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:07,880 watch simultaneously online. 20 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,560 It had the chance that it could take down all of YouTube. 21 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:11,840 Because of the concentration 22 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,160 of the bandwidth on one singular stream, 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:18,040 and it became a really meaningful moment in livestreaming history. 24 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,520 CLAUDE RUIBAL: This was compelling for a whole generation in their teens 25 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:23,280 and in their twenties, because that, too, 26 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:25,120 is going to watch on those platforms. 27 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,120 HELMUT WAHL: We heard that from our teenagers. 28 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:29,400 Thank you. You gave us our moon landing. 29 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,360 LISA POYNTER: This was history in the making. 30 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,160 Who wants to miss a second of that? 31 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:36,160 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 32 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 33 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,800 [MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING] 34 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:09,720 [SIGHS] 35 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,520 It makes me feel really good to sit in this capsule after so many years, 36 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,760 and the only thing that I have to do right now 37 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:22,400 is to talk about what we have accomplished, 10 years ago, 38 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,360 makes it a lot easier. 39 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,880 TIM KATZ: So my job was sports partnerships manager, 40 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,200 to basically be the interface for YouTube to connect with Red Bull. 41 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,960 In 2012, the Internet was very different than today, 42 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,160 and I think YouTube had a reputation 43 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:44,680 for mostly being dogs on skateboards and cat videos. 44 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,640 CLAUDE: Livestreaming was definitely not normal. 45 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,960 We've done a few live things on the YouTube platform. 46 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,160 prior to the 2012 Stratos Jump. 47 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,040 The most meaningful metric that we were looking at 48 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,800 was how many concurrent viewers were watching this event. 49 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:02,960 That's how many people were watching at the same point in time. 50 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,560 CLAUDE: We had the Olympic Games from London, 51 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,960 I think it was probably a hundred meters around Usain Bolt, 52 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,960 was about 600,000 live concurrence. 53 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:13,200 We'd also done a few presidential debates, 54 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,320 probably say numbers 300,000 to 400,000 Live concurrence. 55 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,520 but nothing massive that really tested the system. 56 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,240 So one of my colleagues, Tim Cats, 57 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,240 came to me one day with this idea that Red Bull wanted to do, 58 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,080 eh, this Stratos Jump. 59 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,280 His reaction was a little bit, 60 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:33,480 "Are you crazy to expose us to this kind of risk." 61 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:36,640 You know, we could see Felix die on screen. 62 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,840 Not to mention a pretty incredible technical challenge 63 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,680 of how do you even get video cameras 23 miles up in the air to film this. 64 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,080 This is not just a capsule that protects me inside the capsule. 65 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,040 It's also a flying TV studio, because what we wanted to do is, 66 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,120 to strap people into that seat on the edge of space 67 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:02,160 and let them experience what I experience. 68 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,680 MAN 2:All right, stand up on the exterior step. 69 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:08,880 FELIX BAUMGARTNER:But this wasn't just being streamed on the Internet. 70 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:11,160 I mean, we had media partners worldwide. 71 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:13,080 which supported my training. 72 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,000 I think 77 TV channels 73 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,120 around the world, broadcasted my jump life, 74 00:04:17,280 --> 00:04:20,680 and millions of people watched it on television. 75 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,800 I don't think anyone had ever done this before. 76 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:29,240 So it was really a first ever. 77 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:31,840 Back then I was an engineer, 78 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,680 really soldering all the cables underneath the dashboard 79 00:04:35,840 --> 00:04:38,400 and putting everything into the capsule. 80 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,200 Here we have four cameras. 81 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:42,880 There's a lot more cameras on top 82 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,880 because we want to capture this and show it to the world. 83 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,400 We could start/stop recordings. We could assign those video feeds 84 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,320 to the different downlink than do crazy things. 85 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,840 So basically one decade ago, 86 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,480 we already realized the remote production, 87 00:04:57,640 --> 00:05:01,040 which is nowadays the password in the broadcast industry. 88 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Those cameras are producing a lot of heat, 89 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,520 and because it's almost a vacuum up there, 90 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,480 there's no air that takes the heat away. 91 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,320 So we had to develop a cooling system, 92 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,640 to make sure the cameras, not overheating, 93 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,520 If I look at the capsule, it allows me to go to space. 94 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,360 It's giving me the opportunity. 95 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,640 It's the only chance to reach my goal. 96 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,760 That's going all the way up to the stratosphere 97 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,200 and skied off back to Earth at supersonic speed. 98 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,480 [LAUGHS] 99 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,560 I really appreciated the fact that we have a capsule 100 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,600 that protects my life all the way up. 101 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:45,440 Because you know the suit, it's the last complicated system. 102 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,360 If the suit malfunctions, you're going to die. 103 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:52,680 So to have a double life support system capsule ensued, 104 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:54,960 cannot get better than that. 105 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,080 But on the other hand, it's a very heavy ship 106 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:02,360 that also requires much speaker balloon 107 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:04,600 to get me up to jump altitude. 108 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:06,800 We thought about doing it in a rocket plane. 109 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,080 But how do you get out? 110 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:11,760 Then we decided after a couple months, 111 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,240 let's do it the classic way. 112 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:16,560 Sitting in the capsule, strapped to a balloon, 113 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,760 going all the way up to stratosphere, 114 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:20,640 It's a piece of plastic pretty much. 115 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,440 33 times a soccer field, 116 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,560 two times as high as the Saturn five rocket 117 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:27,520 that they used for going to the moon. 118 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:29,240 It's not the whole balloon in this box, 119 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,080 Of course, it's just part of it. 120 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:35,920 Here you go. The unsung hero. 121 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,040 I mean, just keep in mind. 122 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,280 This has been in space, a part of history. 123 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:45,080 This is what everyone has seen on TV. 124 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,960 And now, ten years later, I am holding in my hand. 125 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,840 I think we should make a coat out of it. 126 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:54,680 It's very fragile, you know. 127 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:57,520 It is ten times thinner than a sandwich bag, 128 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,040 so it's very easy to destroy it. 129 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,160 So we had given the budget for weight 130 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,080 of 500 pounds for camera gear. 131 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,360 We ended up with 1,500 pounds of camera equipment. 132 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:13,720 It was a lot of gear. 133 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,720 This was the largest man balloon ever flown. 134 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,520 The balloon itself is 600 feet tall. 135 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:27,880 The parachute is another 150 feet, so it's a 70 story building. 136 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,840 What can I tell you about Art? Art is an extraordinary engineer. 137 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,360 Blessed or cursed with the heart of an artist. 138 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,920 He brings the two worlds together. I've never met anyone like him. 139 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,040 It was important for me that the program be viewed 140 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:49,120 as a scientific program and not as a promotional stunt. 141 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,240 The fact that Red Bull was so good, 142 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:56,760 about documenting the process and understanding 143 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,960 how to expose that to the public. 144 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,320 that was part of the phenomenon. 145 00:08:02,480 --> 00:08:05,880 of having the general public globally 146 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,680 be part of what was really a fantastic event. 147 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,560 So a year after my scattered from space, 148 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,280 my mom gave me a drawing, 149 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:26,960 a drawing that I completely forgot about. 150 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,000 I did it when I was five years old. 151 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,240 It's me, hanging underneath the parachute. 152 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,200 And it looks like I'm really high because I'm right next to the sun. 153 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,160 You don't even think about skydiving or breaking any records 154 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,520 at the age of five. 155 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:46,880 But it looks like there was something in my mind, 156 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,520 already growing like a seed that you plant somewhere. 157 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,920 I do think there was some sort of premonition all value 158 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,080 to what he was imagining himself doing eight years ahead. 159 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,640 He was going to be a different human. 160 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:02,240 He was going to try things differently. 161 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:04,360 He was going to carve his own way. 162 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,360 FELIX: I started skydiving when I was 16 years old. 163 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:10,800 It was a childhood dream. 164 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,160 From the very first second, when I jumped out of an airplane, 165 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:17,640 I could feel this is where I belong to. 166 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,800 This is what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. 167 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,040 I think skydivers and base jumpers in general, 168 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:25,480 we are a little different, right? 169 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:26,880 We see things a little differently. 170 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,160 Things that outside people who don't do 171 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:31,200 what we do think are like, that's a big deal. 172 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:32,960 You almost died. 173 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,000 Running from a cliff is to me the ultimate dream. 174 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,720 HELMUT: I don't think the wider public understands risk 175 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:45,920 the way you know Felix understands it. 176 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,840 The definition of a daredevil 177 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,280 is a reckless person doing dangerous things, 178 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:54,160 and for me, Felix was never reckless. 179 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,880 He thinks the feats that he did, of course, they were dangerous. 180 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,360 He's not a risk taker. He's a risk manager. 181 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:06,440 WADE: I'm a stunt coordinator. 182 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,160 I think what I do with film stunts 183 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,440 and what Felix did with Stratos, there's a lot of crossover. 184 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,920 Tom Cruise, he's an actor that does literally everything himself. 185 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:17,560 It's months or years of training 186 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,280 to get himself to a position that he's so competent 187 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,720 that the risk factor goes right down 188 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,160 and that's what, you know, Felix did. 189 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,840 FELIX: As a base jumper, it's a very easy relationship. 190 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,120 You know it, it's you, that's your parachute and your decision making. 191 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:38,160 But working on Red Bull Stratos, it's something completely new, 192 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,640 and now you have to be become a team player. 193 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,960 There's so many people on the team that you have to rely on. 194 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,200 I think being part of any kind of team, 195 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,200 especially a team where someone's life is on the line 196 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,320 and the whole world is watching. 197 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,400 It's hard to not get tense. 198 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:55,000 Now he was the center of three hundred people 199 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:56,880 who were in their own right. 200 00:10:57,040 --> 00:11:01,600 World class aerospace engineers, flight test pilots, meteorologists, 201 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:03,760 you know, film production crews. 202 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,000 We put together what was kind of considered the Dream Team. 203 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,280 FELIX: One name that popped up 204 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,200 at the very beginning was Joe Kittinger. 205 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:16,560 Former Air Force colonel who did something very similar. 206 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,200 He jumped from an open controller bag in the '60s. 207 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,360 Joe went 202,800 feet 208 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,480 when he stepped off the platform. 209 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:35,240 and he got up to 614 miles an hour and free falls. 210 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,480 It was nine tenths the speed of sound, 211 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:39,960 so he didn't break the sound barrier. 212 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:43,040 But that record held for 52 years. 213 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,560 Been there, done that. 214 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:47,360 That's the person you have to talk to you. 215 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:51,280 With all Joe's amazing background and history. 216 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:53,320 You know all the things he accomplished. 217 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:55,800 He was a true American hero. 218 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,960 He's space cowboy, what he's done in the past. 219 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:02,600 JACQUELINE VOSS: Sometimes it felt a little bit 220 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,440 like there was a father-son relationship. 221 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,800 He always said things like, attaboy. 222 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,480 FELIX: I confirm everything is on the green. 223 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,000 -No cross, no warnings. -Attaboy. 224 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:14,200 FELIX:Thank you, sir. 225 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:15,600 Joe wasn't a skydiver. 226 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,200 I mean, Joe had 33 skydives 227 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,760 when he jumped from a 100,000 feet. 228 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:24,240 It gives me goose bumps to think about how scary that must have been. 229 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,520 The next step would be to approach NASA, 230 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:30,760 but NASA turned us down. 231 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:32,040 ART THOMPSON: Every time I turned around, 232 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,720 I was being told, "Nope, you can't buy space suits. 233 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:36,080 You can't get the valve. 234 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:38,040 We aren't going to let you have the balloons." 235 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,960 So, we were the complete underdogs, you know? 236 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:43,440 But I don't have a problem 237 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,040 with being an underdog or being underestimated. 238 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:49,280 ANDY WALSHE: This group that had been thrown together 239 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:50,560 really had to figure out 240 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,280 how to get things done in a different way. 241 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:55,760 FELIX:There wasn't anyone in the private sector 242 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,920 that had actually ever engaged in something like that. 243 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:00,520 It was very unique. 244 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:04,840 It took us almost seven years to prepare every detail 245 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 to make sure we're on our A game. 246 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,600 We dropped the ball many times, but we picked it up again. 247 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:13,080 Seven years of negotiation, getting us to the point 248 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:16,320 where people felt like it was all going to come together. 249 00:13:20,680 --> 00:13:24,280 TIM:It was shocking, showing up on site in Roswell, New Mexico. 250 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:25,480 It blew me away. 251 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:27,720 It was really incredible 252 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,240 going to Mission Control, going into the capsules, 253 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,240 seeing where the cameras were set up. 254 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,560 There were nerves. Everybody was nervous. 255 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:39,960 You're waiting for the weather conditions 256 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,880 to be just right, and it looks like we have the window. 257 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:46,720 And the morning of the first attempt, 258 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,880 uh, we started to see the viewership 259 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,040 on the platform we started to creep up. 260 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,200 And it took everybody by surprise, 261 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,840 clipping past a million, two million, 262 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,280 eventually reaching two and a quarter million 263 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:02,920 concurrent viewers. 264 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,560 Everything seems calm and perfect. 265 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,280 MAN 3:Whoa! Gusty winds. 266 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:09,480 LUKE AIKINS: And as I'm walking, 267 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:13,320 literally, this giant helium balloon whips down past me, 268 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,000 hits the ground, trucks are moving everywhere. 269 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,240 Everything got very real. 270 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,480 How dangerous that this could be. 271 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,440 Felix, the winds came up. We'll have to abort. 272 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:25,640 We had one balloon left. 273 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:29,520 TIM: Before we aborted the attempt, we knew this was going to be 274 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,800 unlike anything anyone had ever seen on the Internet. 275 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:39,000 -14h of October. -October 14. 276 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,440 -14th of October. -October 14th. 277 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,400 14th of October, 2012. 278 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,040 I will never forget that day. 279 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,200 I was in Brussels, New Mexico, in mission control. 280 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:54,240 That day, you could feel the tension pretty much everywhere you walked. 281 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,960 We knew if we don't get him off the ground this very day, 282 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,640 this project is not going to happen 283 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,480 or not going to happen for a very long time. 284 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:07,520 FELIX:Getting into the capsule, 285 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,480 Mike Todd puts you in the suit, he puts you in the capsule. 286 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,120 And it's the last guy that you see be looking into his face 287 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:15,760 and you know exactly what he's thinking. 288 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,400 He's like, "Hey, bro, I hope to see you again alive." 289 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:20,760 And I thought the same thing. 290 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,680 Once that door is closed, it's only me and Joe Kittinger, 291 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:25,360 communicating, 292 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,160 doing what we practiced so many times before. 293 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:30,680 FELIX:I am ready Joe. -You were born ready, Felix. 294 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:32,720 I was sitting in front of my computer screen 295 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,720 on Google Hangout with my engineering team. 296 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:37,840 Basically talking to each other 297 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,440 about what was happening and how things were evolving. 298 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,760 TIM: We actually hit two million concurrence 299 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:44,600 before the live stream even started. 300 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,760 So we just had two million people waiting 301 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:50,000 for us to turn on the cameras and say, 302 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:52,200 the jump is going to be in three hours. 303 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,360 We have a long history in human space flight. 304 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:00,600 We started an aerospace company specializing in life support, 305 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:04,080 and thermal control systems for commercial space flight. 306 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,400 What drew us to watching it? 307 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:12,080 It was one of the most exciting things happening, 308 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:15,760 and it was the most exciting thing happening on the planet that day. 309 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,920 I watched with my wife and daughter. It was like a massive event. 310 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:23,560 MAN 4:We are Go for launch. 311 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:25,360 Was sitting, waiting, bated breath. 312 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:27,800 So, let's go! 313 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,920 MAN 5:Balloon is being released in the lunch arm, Felix. 314 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:35,400 It's climbing up. 315 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:39,520 LISA FURST: It's so beautiful, I mean, when it started to lift, 316 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,160 it's incredible. 317 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:46,080 To see that huge balloon go up, and all worked, you know, perfectly. 318 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,080 MAN 6:Getting on the move now to get that line straight. 319 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:50,640 It's good so far. 320 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,760 The moment of launch is exhilarating. 321 00:16:57,640 --> 00:16:59,080 [ALL CHEERING] 322 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:00,640 Good release. 323 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,000 MAN 7:Our arms were up in the air, screaming and yelling. 324 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,600 It was fantastic. 325 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,080 LISA:It looks sculptural, like a piece of art. 326 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,280 It was a magical moment. It was just pure magic. 327 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,120 MAN 8:We are going up just great. FELIX:Thank you so much, guys. 328 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:25,800 FELIX: Once you take off, 329 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:27,880 you need to keep that balloon in shape 330 00:17:28,040 --> 00:17:30,120 all the way up to jump altitude. 331 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,160 I want a camera on the balloon. 332 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,800 FELIX:The first 300 feet, it's called the death zone. 333 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,520 If something happens to the balloon, the capsule parachute rescue system 334 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:44,400 will not open fast enough because we are too low. 335 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:48,280 And I am also not having enough time to unhook all my oxygen hoses, 336 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,680 depressurize the capsule, and get outside the capsule. 337 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,200 WADE:If something goes wrong, he's dead. 338 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:56,520 Watching as an audience, you just see the... 339 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,080 You see it floating up,but it's still quite close to the ground, 340 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:00,720 so it is not dangerous yet. 341 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:02,520 But that was actually the most dangerous part, 342 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,880 apart from the free fall. 343 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,080 CLAUDE: We were feeling a dual stress. 344 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,240 You know, there were a lot of issues 345 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,080 that could have gone wrong on the streaming side 346 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,840 and a lot of issues that have gone wrong 347 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,560 on the Stratos jump side. 348 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:15,840 We were worrying about both of those. 349 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,280 You swing from this staggering sense of exhilaration and achievement 350 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:25,160 to a real kick in the guts, check of reality, that wow. 351 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:27,760 Now we've got to make it through this first flight. 352 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,040 I was properly trained to do everything by myself, you know. 353 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,880 But still you want that calming deep voice from choking, 354 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:40,600 and you're talking to you because it calm you down. 355 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,000 Doing great on that cabin. 356 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,960 You're doing great, and everything looks green. 357 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:49,280 It made sense for me that Joe be the voice 358 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:52,480 that spoke to Felix because who better, 359 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,520 but the guy who actually did the jump in 1960... 360 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:03,440 Reaching a certain height was crucial for us to know, 361 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,160 okay, now it's gonna work. 362 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,960 JOE KITTINGER:So we're pretty much out of the worst of the danger zone. 363 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:14,040 Once we had that, you know, it's like the first relief. 364 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:16,160 CLAUDE: So as time went by, 365 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:18,520 Felix kept getting higher and higher in the sky, 366 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:22,320 and our live, concurrent view account kept in higher and higher, too. 367 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,600 But we also thought we should plan 368 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,880 for potentially as high as five million 369 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,760 concurrent viewers for the for the final jump attempt, 370 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,120 which we thought if we exceed five million, 371 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:35,040 it had the chance that it could take down all of YouTube. 372 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,160 At one point in time on my Google hangout, 373 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:38,920 we got to the three million number, 374 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,720 and I kind of threw the question out to the team. 375 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,720 So everybody worth three million live concurrence. 376 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:45,480 So what do we do now? 377 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,560 And I think one member of the engineering team 378 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,280 set back to me. 379 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:51,680 We're not sure. 380 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:53,160 [CHUCKLES] 381 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,600 And that was a little scary. 382 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,200 Overall exciting just to watch that altimeter. 383 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,480 Check, check, check, check, check. 384 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:04,120 He's doing his job. 385 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,640 FELIX:Feels like it was yesterday. 386 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:12,680 Everything feels familiar. 387 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,560 MAN 9:Doing great on that altitude, Felix, good job! 388 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:18,320 There's a lot of stuff going on in here. 389 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,840 Everything makes sense, so there's no luxury items here. 390 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,920 Everything that's in here has a function. 391 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,160 So if you want to start right here, there's a light inside, 392 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,600 it's mostly for the cameras. 393 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,160 We have two radios here for Capcom, 394 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,800 so I can talk to Joe Kittinger and everyone else. 395 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,840 Have all the checklists here on the door. 396 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,320 I have everything memorized. 397 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:48,720 We had intentionally made the life support very pilot operated 398 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,320 The idea is that if something happens with the communications or the radio, 399 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,800 he's got to be able to operate the 87 switches. 400 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,640 The worst moments are, if your mind is not occupied. 401 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,480 So you're sitting there, you're waiting, you know, 402 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:05,680 you have all those negative thoughts. 403 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,520 What if something goes wrong? What if something malfunctions? 404 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:10,080 What if I don't perform well? 405 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,040 There're just so many things you know because the whole world is watching. 406 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:20,040 I think that's incredible to mentally control all your anxiety. 407 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,240 I think that would have taken a lot to get to control in a calm place. 408 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,560 FELIX:We will spend a lot of time in that capsule. 409 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:35,360 It's always miserable, hot, very uncomfortable, very unpleasant. 410 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,200 And that's why I look at the capsule as an enemy first, 411 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:40,640 same with the pressure suit. 412 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,160 You have to reprogram your mind. 413 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,160 See this as your friend because the only way 414 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,160 to go up into the stratosphere and sky dive back to Earth 415 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,680 at supersonic speed is, if you wear that suit. 416 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:00,800 Reason why you need a pressure suit above 63,000 feet. 417 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,480 It's called the Armstrong line. 418 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,320 Your blood starts to boil at body temperature. 419 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,080 That's why you need to have pressure around you. 420 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:09,520 You have a pressure down right here. 421 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:13,640 You turn it all the way up, and the suit will completely inflate. 422 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,320 LUKE:When it is pressurized, you have super limited mobility. 423 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:19,120 You can't move. You can't turn your head like this. 424 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:22,120 But you're not putting your hands, you know, and do whatever you want. 425 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,680 Just stop getting anxious inside, claustrophobic. 426 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,240 It's hard to breathe inside a helmet like this. 427 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,800 At 68,000 feet, Felix said, 428 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,240 "I think there's a problem with my faceplate heater." 429 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,080 I do not think I have face heating. 430 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,560 Sometimes it's getting foggy when I exhale. 431 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,480 Joe, I think this is serious. This is really serious. 432 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:49,200 Look at this. 433 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,960 Fel, check your monitor. Fel, check your monitor. 434 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,840 ART: We had already prearranged a code 435 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:03,040 for what do you do in the event that there's some issue. 436 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,560 And so Joe says, "Fel, check your monitor." 437 00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,000 And that basically means cut the communication with the public. 438 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:14,160 JOE:There is a minor problem with the heat in the face plate. 439 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:16,920 Mission for the time being is continuing. 440 00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,560 As a team, consider what are the options? 441 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,120 He said, "I really think we need to disconnect Felix 442 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:25,000 from the capsule, 443 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,560 which will force everything over to the chest pack radio 444 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,040 to the life support on his backpack, 445 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,440 Had an overwhelming, "No, you can't do that." 446 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,120 JACQUELINE: I was really afraid that if he would disconnect, 447 00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,960 we would lose comms. 448 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:44,640 ART:And if we lose communication, 449 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,160 will he be able to understand what needs to be done? 450 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,520 MAN 10: Okay, Felix, we think we should do. 451 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,520 ART:So he disconnected the main umbilical and he ran a check. 452 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:04,400 Comms and radio came on and he said great. 453 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:06,440 So, Felix, breathe in and out. 454 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,360 You should feel the face plate heating coming on, 455 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:10,520 now you'll feel the heat. 456 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,200 Hey, Felix, it appears as if it's dissipating 457 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,760 while you've get your breath held. 458 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,000 Is that what you're seeing? 459 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,120 It looks like, yeah. 460 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,280 Okay. I think we should continue 461 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,760 and hopefully, just pack. 462 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,600 Basically, I am feeling hot. 463 00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:30,240 As said, we just went from 68,000 feet 464 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,040 to a 118,000 feet. 465 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,200 So, you're already past Joe. 466 00:24:35,360 --> 00:24:37,680 You've already passed his record. 467 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,040 All you have to do is step out of the capsule 468 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:43,160 and you've broken Joe's record. 469 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,520 We had just continually gained audience, 470 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:50,560 gaining, gaining, gaining and then right at the top of his ascent, 471 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,160 the speed at which we were gaining users 472 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:54,520 through this live stream 473 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,720 was like nothing any of us had ever seen before. 474 00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:59,760 At which point, we don't really know what's going to happen, 475 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:03,360 and we don't have complete confidence that our systems will hold up. 476 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,880 FELIX:Okay, Joe, ready. JOE:Okay, here we go. 477 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,600 Felix, item one, 478 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,120 Depressurized suit, reinstall hose and cover. 479 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,880 When Felix hit the jump altitude of 128,000 feet, 480 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,160 we hit 8.2 million concurrent viewers, 481 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,240 which still stands today 482 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,160 as the most viewed live event on YouTube. 483 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,880 CLAUDE: So it was always a little bit stressful 484 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:31,040 and for something this massive you want it to go well. 485 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:33,840 The last thing we want to do 486 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,160 is have this thing not work and go to black, 487 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,640 just as Felix has made it up to his jump point 488 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,080 and everyone wants to watch that. 489 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:47,160 That moment, he was up there and the door finally slid open 490 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,720 and that view and all the camera angles captured. 491 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:54,280 It was breathtaking. 492 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:55,880 What? 493 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:57,560 -Oh, my God, see it. -Oh, no! 494 00:25:57,720 --> 00:25:59,200 [LAUGHS] 495 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,200 Very, very few people that have ever seen 496 00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:09,480 the Earth in that context from just inside a space suit. 497 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:11,240 LISA: It's just sort of a hole, 498 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,440 flabbergasting idea of just standing out there 499 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,600 and looking at the curvature of the Earth. 500 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:21,240 My hands are already sweaty. 501 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,680 LISA: Every astronaut I've ever spoken to 502 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,520 and from some of the quotes that I've seen coming from Felix, 503 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,520 it is a truly momentous experience 504 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,240 to see our planet in the context of space. 505 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,160 128,175 feet in the air... 506 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,280 -Highest freefall. -...and he's about to jump out. 507 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:47,840 FELIX:You see the rest is not there. 508 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,120 You look up, the sky is completely dark. 509 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,040 It's kind of black. 510 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:57,560 You look at the balloon, it's completely inflated. 511 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,200 You can see how shiny the surface is. 512 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:04,320 I wish, I could stay there a little longer. 513 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,200 LUKE: It must have been the most amazing feeling 514 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,600 in the world to be, basically you're standing 515 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,440 at the edge of space, above you is nothing, right. 516 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:15,760 And the whole world is below you. 517 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,680 And I can only dream about what that was like for him. 518 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,520 As said, sometimes you have to grow up really hard 519 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,320 to understand how small you are. 520 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:32,240 We were all, you know, 521 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:34,880 not moving one centimeter in that Mission Control. 522 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,880 My eyes were glued on the screen 523 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:40,840 and just like you got this feelings, we got this. 524 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,520 We were just like, "Yes, go ahead, do it." 525 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:48,560 It was a heart stopping moment, and he had some big balls to do that. 526 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,720 FELIX: I've never seen the whole thing 527 00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,800 because I never watched it. 528 00:27:57,960 --> 00:27:59,360 Here we go. 529 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,200 I'm coming home now. 530 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:11,880 He's like I'm coming home now. I mean, that's pretty cool. 531 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,640 I would have said something stupid like Geronimo or something 532 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:16,680 that wouldn't have been nearly as iconic. 533 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,200 If you look at the exit, it's nice and clean. 534 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:22,400 It couldn't be better, 535 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:24,120 Joe told me, Kittinger, 536 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,280 the molecules bump into each other once a week up there. 537 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:27,560 They're so far apart. 538 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:29,440 That's how thin the air is. 539 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,320 So, when Felix steps off, 540 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,400 any momentum that he puts into his body 541 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,160 is going to carry for the next 40 seconds. 542 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,160 Felix left the capsule as perfect as we drew up. 543 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,680 Just starts falling, falling, falling. 544 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,360 ART: Felix told me a year or so before 545 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,200 that he wanted to do a back flip off of the capsule 546 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,200 because that's one of his signature moves. 547 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,120 And I said, well, Felix, if you do a back flip, 548 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:03,360 you will most certainly die because you will not stop spinning. 549 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,160 And then for me, the next critical point is, 550 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,800 when does he have control? 551 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,040 FELIX: I was trying to put my arms out the little bit 552 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:16,760 that just to see how it feels, 553 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,800 because of the fact that a lot of those scientists said 554 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,400 prior to the jump, you're gonna spin like crazy 555 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:23,720 and the other half said 556 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,840 we don't think anything is going to happen. 557 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,520 Um, I was mentally prepared to spin, 558 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,680 but I was hoping that I'm not gonna spin. 559 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,240 We have physicists from all over the world 560 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,640 writing us, please don't let him do it. 561 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,800 His arms and legs will come off. 562 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:44,080 Joe would write them back, you know, thank you for your concern. 563 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:46,760 You may want to double check your calculations. 564 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,560 FELIX: The first 25 seconds, 565 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,200 it looked like everything is under control, you know? 566 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:54,760 So, I thought at that moment, 567 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,720 I still remember like it was yesterday, 568 00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,880 "Hey, everything is cool, you know." 569 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:05,160 At that moment, it slowly starts to spin and was getting faster. 570 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,040 There you go. 571 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,640 It's bare underneath. 572 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:14,320 LUKE: All of that is happening while he is breaking the speed of sound 573 00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,800 going, you know, mock at 1.2 something like that. 574 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:20,880 TIM: It was exhilarating 575 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,520 to see Felix gets at 843 miles per hour. 576 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:26,880 FELIX:That was our goal. 577 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,800 I wanted to be the first human 578 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,640 outside of an aircraft, breaking the sound barrier. 579 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,680 MAN 11: Was that him breaking-- MAN 12: Yes. 580 00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:39,520 At that moment, I reached my goal well, 581 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,640 but I'm still spinning, and now really it's getting worse. 582 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:52,680 And now, it's on me to find out how to stop that spin. 583 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,560 You know, you have to find a solution while the whole world is watching. 584 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,640 I remember watching this with my family. 585 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,880 And when he started spinning out of control, 586 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,720 I was... I mean, I was standing up. 587 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:04,720 I was like, "Come on, come on, come on." 588 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,000 FELIX: Then, I was trying to move my arms around a little bit, 589 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,880 just maybe it does something. 590 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:10,840 And then, it stopped for a second, 591 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,360 and at that moment, I thought, "Okay, that was it." 592 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,720 But now, it starts getting the opposite direction, you know, 593 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,360 and then it really ramps up. 594 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,400 LISA: You could cut the tension with a knife, 595 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,160 and it was terrifying. 596 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:25,920 We didn't know what was going to happen. 597 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,720 Eva, Felix's mother, she had tears in her eyes, 598 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,480 you can see the fear 599 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,640 to really understand what it means for a mother. 600 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:37,000 In that very moment, 601 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,520 I think you have to be a mother and having to have a kid, 602 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,880 who does things like that? 603 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,120 LUKE:Felix gets in this position, he flips over and goes past centered. 604 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:49,560 Now, he's on his back. 605 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,040 So, all of those moves that we practiced, 606 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:54,800 all of those jumps him and I of what to do in a spin, 607 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:56,800 everything's now backwards. 608 00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,720 In that moment, Felix puts out the correct hand to stop the spin, 609 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:01,760 but doesn't wait long enough. 610 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,280 I can't even imagine what it's like, I mean-- 611 00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:07,960 And the sun is spinning around and it's black sky. 612 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:09,240 I mean, it's intense. 613 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,320 It's kind of a helpless feeling 614 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,040 because as a skydiver when you spin around, 615 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:15,760 you immediately know how to stop 616 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,280 by using the air to your own advantage. 617 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,840 But here, you have no air. 618 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,320 It's not a very comfortable situation. 619 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:26,640 Plus, if it gets faster and faster at a certain rpm, 620 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,440 there's a lot of blood going into your head. 621 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:31,800 It is called the red out 622 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,040 because the blood is getting pushed in your skull. 623 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,800 There's only one way 624 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,960 for the blood to leave your skull and that through your eyeballs, 625 00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,400 it means they pop out. 626 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,880 Joe spun a 112 on one of his jumps. 627 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,240 He experienced minus 12G's. 628 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,960 Eh, so he had ocular hemorrhaging. 629 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,760 He was actually bleeding from his eyes on one of his job. 630 00:32:59,920 --> 00:33:01,880 And of course, I was aware 631 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,840 that if this goes on and on and went up like crazy, 632 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:06,720 there's nothing I can do. 633 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,200 I'm worried that the G-Whiz is going to fire now. 634 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,120 I had a G-Whiz attached to my hand. 635 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:19,400 A G-Whiz is a device that we developed together with Luke. 636 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:23,840 At about three and a half G's for six seconds, 637 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,880 the G-Whiz would deploy the reserve parachute for you. 638 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:30,920 A drogue chute is a round parachute that's designed 639 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:35,000 to orient your body in a way where your head is a little bit high 640 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,720 and it keeps you from being able to get in this flat spin. 641 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,840 FELIX:Speed 546. 642 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,760 FELIX: Knowing that I'm already spinning for a while, 643 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,440 and G force was constantly getting higher I knew 644 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:53,280 that G-Whiz could fire my drogue chute any time. 645 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,320 And that's why I put my hands in to trip that G-Whiz, 646 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,240 because as soon as put my hands in, it's less G, 647 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:03,080 and now the G-Whiz sensor is off. 648 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,920 Less G that means he's getting it under control. 649 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,320 That would rather solve that problem 650 00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,800 with my skills versus a safety device. 651 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,400 I was waiting for that moment when he was gonna get enough drag, 652 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,200 where he could right himself and fix himself. 653 00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,360 You could see I was trying to put my right hand out, 654 00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:27,040 then I put my left hand out. 655 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,000 LUKE:Felix, stop the flat spin 656 00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:36,080 and flip back over into a positive freefall position. 657 00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:37,280 That's so good. 658 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,600 [ALL APPLAUDING] 659 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,480 WADE: To recompose himself, 660 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,200 it's a hell of an achievement. 661 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:48,480 The forces on the body were so huge. 662 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,600 Once he had that his abilities were just fine. 663 00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,080 He was going to be okay. 664 00:34:53,240 --> 00:34:57,960 We knew he's in his comfort zone, and I think he's going to be fine. 665 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,080 I was stable as a rock. 666 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,080 And now, it was actually the first moment, 667 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,240 where I had time to enjoy the beauty of the nature. 668 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,120 You look at the sky, is blue now. 669 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,760 At that moment, I actually start enjoying freefall. 670 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:20,120 Every leader that you fall, 671 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,280 you're falling towards a better world. 672 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,560 More oxygen, more pressure, more temperature. 673 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:32,880 While you still so high up, 674 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:35,000 I was constantly checking multi-meter. 675 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:46,040 ANDY:And then, you saw the chute just pop. 676 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,280 There is the chute, there is the chute. 677 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,760 ANDY: I mean, at that point I was, "Oh, my God, game over." 678 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:54,960 -We've done. -He's done it. 679 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,760 FELIX: I think this is probably a moment 680 00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,000 where there's two guys on the team 681 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:03,680 have been really relaxed, and that's me 682 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,280 because my parachute opened 683 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:07,600 and Luke Aikins, because he packed that parachute. 684 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,200 [CHUCKLES] 685 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:11,200 LUKE: I was a little bit worried 686 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,000 that all of my skydiving community's gonna see my opening that I packed 687 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,680 and it was going to be line twist or not the best opening, you know, 688 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,800 and I was going to hear about that for the rest of my life. 689 00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,160 So I was really happy when it was a perfectly nice opening. 690 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,880 Now, this is a very important moment. 691 00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,400 Very first time after hours and hours inside that spacesuit 692 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,120 that I'm breathing regular air. 693 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,640 So now I am reconnected with the outside world. 694 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,440 The visor's open, I can breathe. 695 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,000 I'm back in the real world. 696 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,080 I love that moment and that's in my mind forever. 697 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,120 And I was so worried about my landing 698 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,560 because after everything works perfect, 699 00:36:49,720 --> 00:36:52,240 I really want a clean landing. 700 00:36:55,760 --> 00:37:00,040 [ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING] 701 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,840 That is incredible. 702 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,000 FELIX: So now I'm really happy 703 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,480 because even the landing was just perfect. 704 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,760 WADE:When he landed and dropped to his knees 705 00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,600 and he recognized what he just achieved. 706 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:19,240 That was when I really felt for him and got to this far. 707 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,960 ANDY: I think YouTube together with 10% of the internet 708 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,920 are being utilized to sort of stream at globally. 709 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:31,280 LISA:Wow. 710 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,200 How did I feel? Oh, jeez, tension relief. 711 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,520 I was screaming from the top of my lungs. 712 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,240 We worked so hard for many years, you know, days and nights. 713 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,120 You could see in his face that this was a massive relief. 714 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,680 LISA:We were just dancing and screaming and shouting. 715 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,960 It was just relief, pure relief. 716 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,200 JACQUELINE: I went behind the tin shed, 717 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,160 the shed that we used to prep the capsule in. 718 00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:03,760 I called my mom and I cried like a baby. 719 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:06,480 It was... it was crazy. 720 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,560 It was... it was chaotic and all those feelings and emotions 721 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:13,240 and realizing that it actually happened 722 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,240 and it all worked out fine. 723 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,080 DR ANDY: And I remember looking around the room 724 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:20,280 and thinking, "Wow," 725 00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,520 these people have been such an important part of our lives. 726 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,440 And it's probably not gonna 727 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:28,560 potentially see many of them ever again. 728 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:30,720 You know, there's this sort of... 729 00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:35,360 sort of realization that you know it's over. 730 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,360 JACQUELINE: There you go, the two boys. 731 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:45,920 [MELLOW MUSIC PLAYING] 732 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:55,680 When I looked at my phone, my inbox was blown. 733 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,320 I think I could see every second... 734 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,600 I knew that people felt that it was an extraordinary event. 735 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,560 I knew people had been paying attention. 736 00:39:06,720 --> 00:39:10,320 I was blown away by how many people 737 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:11,920 had tuned in. 738 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:13,520 [CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS] 739 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,240 HELMUT:We went on the media tour. 740 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,200 You know, wherever we went, there were people. 741 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,280 There were people lining up in front of the hotels 742 00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,520 at four o'clock in the morning, waiting for Felix to sign autographs. 743 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,560 Wherever we landed, whatever airport it was, 744 00:39:25,720 --> 00:39:28,000 there were people lining up, it was big. 745 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:29,960 It was big. 746 00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:31,720 Well, talk about a leap of faith. 747 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,920 There is no question that he's a brave man. 748 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,320 This is something that had never been done before. 749 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,200 WADE:When I met Felix, I didn't know it was Felix, 750 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,000 the guy that fell from space. 751 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,680 He is very humble. 752 00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:47,120 What Felix did is a once in a lifetime achievement, 753 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,280 but it's also a once in history achievement. 754 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,600 If you accomplish something so unique, 755 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,480 awards are coming your way. 756 00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,080 It's so surreal. 757 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:01,880 If you go on stage and there's top Hollywood celebrities, 758 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,680 you're standing in front of Morgan Freeman 759 00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,640 and you know the guy because he's one of my favorite actors. 760 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,400 John Travolta, for example, 761 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,720 awarded me with Living Legends of Aviation. 762 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,000 You're standing there and it's like... 763 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,760 mind blowing. 764 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,600 I have received many awards whole entire life, 765 00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:19,880 but this one is special. 766 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,960 For us at Google and YouTube, perhaps a Red Bull, too. 767 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,320 It was like, "Wow, we could pull off an amazing event 768 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,760 that a lot of people just felt was crazy initially to do." 769 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:34,120 We could distribute it to everyone who wanted to see it in the world 770 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,800 if they had an opportunity to get onto the Web. 771 00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:39,080 Within the first couple of weeks, 772 00:40:39,240 --> 00:40:42,600 we saw over 100 million playbacks of the event. 773 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,520 And now, ten years later, 774 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,480 we've seen almost a billion views of content from Red Bull Stratos. 775 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:52,880 It had proved the point that there was an audience 776 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,360 that we didn't think about at that point, 777 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:56,920 and I think this is sort of like the early phase 778 00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,960 of what digital media and social media has become. 779 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,680 Salute to our man, Felix. 780 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,000 Live streaming is a part of daily life now 781 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,600 for billions of people around the world. 782 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:09,880 And Stratos really paved the way for what was possible. 783 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,320 JACQUELINE:Then we were nominated for an Emmy 784 00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,000 and we all went to New York. 785 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,560 And, well, we actually won. 786 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:17,920 MAN 13: Which was super exciting, too. 787 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,600 But it was a bit of a surprise, but a nice surprise. 788 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,200 JACQUELINE: We have really re-used the technology 789 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:26,720 from the Stratos project. 790 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,520 The concept that we applied has really realized 791 00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:32,680 more cameras and events like that, 792 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,880 which also leads to more perspectives for viewers. 793 00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,480 LUKE: Red Bull Stratos did change my life. 794 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,960 I got that job where I did from 25,000 feet with no parachute 795 00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,560 straight because of the work I did on Stratos. 796 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:48,960 That's pretty amazing, 797 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:52,960 that that jump changed my career and put me in a different category. 798 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,280 MAN 14: My goodness, Luke. 799 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,960 ART:Stratos had a global effect on the flight test community. 800 00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,200 Looking at space safety, they actually started classes 801 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:07,920 and used Red Bull Stratos 802 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:12,080 as engineering examples of how to do engineering program. 803 00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:16,800 LUKE: A couple years after Felix does his, 804 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,440 we have Alan Eustace go up and he breaks Felix's altitude record 805 00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,600 which would have not been possible without all of the learnings we had. 806 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:25,920 Alan was very cool. 807 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,320 He goes, "Hey, I took everything 808 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,360 that they learned that I could get my hands on, 809 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,480 and I read it all and I applied some of that stuff in my project." 810 00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:38,480 While StratEx beat the altitude record, 811 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:41,400 we didn't beat Felix's speed record. 812 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,680 What was learned from Stratos, 813 00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,560 I think, enabled us to do StratEx safely 814 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:51,080 and the technology that kept us from spinning up during the descent 815 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:54,920 was a direct result of the work that Stratos did. 816 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,760 The legacy, you know, for me, for Red Bull Stratos, 817 00:42:57,920 --> 00:43:01,840 it's pushing the boundaries of what's possible for a human being. 818 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,280 We openly disclosed all the scientific data that we generated 819 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,480 and provided to the world what we learned from that project 820 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,360 and how that can be applied in those programs. 821 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,200 Now that is massive. 822 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,640 ART: The life support system that we designed on the capsule 823 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:20,440 actually used the technology and data 824 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,400 to change the configuration for life support 825 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,440 for things like the U-2. 826 00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:29,200 And the end result was a plane that was built in the '50s, 827 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:33,480 now flies at a cabin pressure equivalent to 15,000 feet 828 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,800 and they limited any kind of decompression sickness 829 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:39,040 or disorientation in the pilot. 830 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:43,280 TABER MACCALLUM: It showed that there is a huge interest 831 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:44,600 in human space flight 832 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,400 done by private companies, not just government space programs, 833 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,480 and it laid out a technical pathway 834 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:55,000 for us to go forward with other projects 835 00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,800 that built on what was learned at Stratos. 836 00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:02,040 ART:Red Bull Stratos captured everybody's imagination. 837 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,760 They saw all the trials and tribulations we went through, 838 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,280 potential issues and dangers, 839 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,600 because going up to near space is a very dangerous environment. 840 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:16,840 LUKE:It's the only way that the world advances 841 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,680 is by people pushing to the next level. 842 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,960 And Felix has a giant page in the history book 843 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,120 of opening that door for people. 844 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,560 The human putting themselves out in front of the world 845 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:30,520 with a challenge that at times was beyond them. 846 00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,240 ART: I meet people every day 847 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,680 from kids that were in grammar school 848 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,560 to adults who were in the flight test community to astronauts, 849 00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,160 that would tell me and share their stories 850 00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:47,520 and share how it inspired them to do or be part of something. 851 00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:50,720 LISA: If I want to teach my kids something 852 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,520 and something I really learned from Stratos 853 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:56,520 is go out and do what you love and find your own wings. 854 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:01,800 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 855 00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,160 FELIX:Well, you know, I had two childhood dreams 856 00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:09,400 when I was a little kid. 857 00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,200 I dreamed about skydiving 858 00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,480 and I've dreamed about flying helicopters. 859 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,200 [HELICOPTER WHIRRING] 860 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,680 But my parents were not rich, I didn't make a lot of money. 861 00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:21,920 So that's the reason why I had to wait. 862 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,600 For a long time, it looked like my dream is never become reality. 863 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,440 [HELICOPTER WHIRRING] 864 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,040 I want to show you my parents' house. 865 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,640 Most of the time when my mom hears the helicopter, 866 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,880 she runs outside and she waves like crazy. 867 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,320 So let's see if it's the same thing today. 868 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,280 She's out there, see her waving. 869 00:45:46,720 --> 00:45:48,480 [CHUCKLES] 870 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,240 A childhood dream, not just becoming a helicopter pilot, 871 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,520 now I am even entering the next level, 872 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,320 becoming an aerobatic helicopter pilot. 873 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,480 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 874 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:06,240 The machine becomes you and you become the machine. 875 00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:09,680 It's a relationship. 876 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:13,040 And it's a very beautiful and elegant way of life. 877 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,240 It gives you a level of freedom like nothing else. 878 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,120 [HELICOPTER WHIRRING] 879 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:22,160 WADE:Felix and I are both helicopter pilots 880 00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:23,440 and we share that passion. 881 00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:24,720 But there are not many people 882 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,400 that can do what Felix does in a helicopter. 883 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,240 Doing full loops, rolls in the way Felix does it. 884 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:34,560 I only know two. 885 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,000 And that's why I'm not going with Felix in the helicopter 886 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:40,520 as many times he has invited me to go with him. 887 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:44,120 FELIX:I want to take this to an extreme level 888 00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:45,320 like he did in skydiving. 889 00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,360 I started as a regular skydiver, took it to an extreme level 890 00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,880 and I want to do the exact same thing and I'm flying hard times. 891 00:46:52,040 --> 00:46:55,360 [HELICOPTER WHIRRING] 892 00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,400 I learned a lot while working on Red Bull Stratos. 893 00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:04,080 Things like being patient or working with a team 894 00:47:04,240 --> 00:47:06,440 and also how to handle setbacks. 895 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,120 We have been the underdogs but we always come back stronger, 896 00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:12,480 and that's how we became a family. 897 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:13,800 Before I broke the speed of sound 898 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:16,800 I was always asking myself, "How do I want to be remembered?" 899 00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,800 And now I guess I have the answer. 900 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,200 So when my time is up and I have to leave this planet, 901 00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:29,120 I will do it with a smile on my face because I know one thing for sure, 902 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:31,600 "Big dreamers always win." 903 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:33,280 Yes! 904 00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:36,160 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 904 00:47:37,305 --> 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