Free Fall From Space 2024. In 2012 felix baumgartner took a helium balloon into the stratosphere and skydived back to earth in a s. The planets, for example, are in free fall in the gravitational field of the sun.
Free fall occurs whenever an object is acted upon by gravity alone. With a small hop, baumgartner began his descent back to earth, and reached a record speed of 843.6 mph, making him the first human to reach supersonic speeds in a free fall.