Red Bull Stratos Felix Baugartner Jump From Space Leaves Him Needing Rest

Red Bull Stratos jumper Felix Baumgartner is reported by The Guardian to be resting after his 24 mile descent from space to earth on Sunday, Oct. 14.

Baumgarten hurled himself from a helium balloon in the stratosphere as part of breaking the altitude record for a manned balloon flight.

The Austrian descended from space with around eight million people watching him via live stream from social media site YouTube.

A spokesman for the Red Bull Stratos said. "He's recuperating." Baumgartner is at this time not making himself available for interviews at this time confirmed the Red Bull Stratos representative.

In his maiden space jump the 43-year-old man gave audiences and crew members note for concern when his visor fogged up due to the high altitude. He told Joe Kittinger a former daredevil himself via earpiece. "This is serious Joe. Sometimes it's getting foggy when I exhale...I do not feel heat."

Baumgartner went to say. "The exit was perfect but then I started spinning slowly. I thought I'd just spin a few times and that would be that, but then I started to speed up. It was really brutal at times. I thought for a few seconds that I'd lose consciousness. I didn't feel a sonic boom because I was so busy just trying to stabilize myself...It was a lot harder than I thought it was going to be."

Felix Baumgartner's record descent saw him break the sound barrier and the jump to earth was approximately ten minutes.

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