His grapes may have turned into raisins
On a serious side, I watched this, or rather I kept flipping over to it until the final checklist was in process...that first step would have filled my pressure suit!
Drudge has it on his page, let's see if I can replicate -
That early tumbling and spinning would have had me tossing all over my visor!
833.9mph for a new record, only record not broken is longest free-fall, but when you want a speed record I guess the other has to give.
"Baumgartner's team included Joe Kittinger, who first tried to break the sound barrier from 19.5 miles up in 1960, reaching speeds of 614 mph. With Kittinger inside mission control, the two men could be heard going over technical details during the ascension."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUPERSONIC_SKYDIVER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-10-14-11-33-29This is pretty impressive, but the technology of today compared to over 50 years ago IMO makes what Joe did that much more impressive.