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Felix Baumgartner's fall-to-Earth video leaked online

German TV shows footage leaked on the internet from camera attached to Felix Baumgartner's body as he performed his supersonic skydive from the edge of space. 

Footage of what Felix Baumgartner saw as he fell from the edge of space in a record breaking skydive has been leaked on the internet. 

A German show called Servus TV also ran the footage captured from camera attached to Felix Baumgartner's body as he performed his supersonic skydive from the edge of space. 

The amazing film also shows the moment Baumgartner hit 833 miles per hour - sending him into the record books as he broke the sound barrier. The Austrian can also be heard reporting that his visor had become fogged up. 

The 43-year-old floated down to earth on a red and white parachute canopy, which he had opened after reaching speeds of more than 1,120km/h in freefall.

Mission control erupted in cheers as Baumgartner made a near-perfect jump from a capsule hoisted aloft by a giant helium-filled balloon to an altitude of about 39km.

"Sometimes you have [go] up really high to [realise] how small you are," Baumgartner said shortly before he jumped, watched in live footage beamed around the world.

He had taken more than two hours to get up to the jump altitude. Baumgartner had already broken one record, before he even leapt: the previous highest altitude for a manned balloon flight was 34km, set in 1961.

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