This is the Statt Mann Baby. It's time to Scatt a little bit.

As we watched the Space Shuttle inch its way through Los Angeles streets this week we got this bit of insanity on Sunday.

Austrian adventurer Felix Baumgartner made skydiving history leaping from a small capsule under a helium balloon 24 miles in the sky. That’s the edge of space if you’re wondering.

The reports say Baumgartner hit 729 miles an hour and possibly broke the sound barrier during the descent. A SpeedFreak to be sure.

The feat came 65 years to the day – October 14, 1945 – after pilot Chuck Yaeger broke the sound barrier in an aircraft. This is another example of The Right Stuff.

 

Talk about Giant Leaps for Mankind: Baumgartner paused on the small platform before diving and said, “Sometimes you have to go really high to see how small you are.”

He then jumped from 128,000 feet above the Earth and landed safely in Roswell, New Mexico. It gets better.

That’s nearly four times higher than we normally fly in jetliners. The next time you’re airborne look out the window and imagine someone skydiving by the wing.

Red Bull sponsored the jump. Who else?

Sounds like an episode of Twilight Zone doesn’t it?

Peace.