HISTORY TV18 and in.com official broadcaster of Red Bull Stratos

MUMBAI: Red Bull India has chosen HISTORY TV18 and In.com as official broadcast partners for Red Bull Stratos in India. The channel will broadcast Felix Baumgartner‘s jump live from stratosphere at 5:50 pm today.

After testing for over five years and planning since 2005, Baumgartner will attempt to create history by making the highest and fastest freefall in history. Supported by a team of experts Baumgartner plans to ascend to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and make a free fall jump rushing toward earth at supersonic speeds before parachuting to the ground.

The team of experts who built this one-of-a-kind technology include retired United States Air Force Colonel Joseph Kittinger, who holds three of the records Felix will strive to break. Kittinger‘s record jump from 102,800 ft. in 1960 was during a time when no one knew if a human could survive a jump from the edge of space.

Baumgartner has already set a world record during his test jump by successfully jumping from 18 miles / 29 kilometres above the Earth freefalling as fast as a commercial airliner - 536 miles per hour.