THE DIVE OF A LIFETIME Austrian Felix Baumgartner faced a slew of dangers during his attempt to break the altitude record for a freefall jump, from the edge of space, on Sunday. He reached earth in 9 minutes and 3 seconds Pilot Felix Baumgartner jumps out of the capsule during the final manned flight for Red Bull Stratos. PHOTO: REUTERS | The 43-year-old broke the sound barrier, the first skydiver to do so. He deployed the parachute to descent the last few thousand feet | More than 8 million people watched his feat online on Youtube 1,137 km per hour 4 min 19 sec 128,097 feet Speed of freefall which is Duration of Altitude of the fastest the free fall the descent 31,333 meters Record height that Baumgartner was attempting to break, set over 52 years ago by Joseph Kittinger, now a retired US Air Force colonel, who made the jump in 1960 | Kittinger was part of Baumgartner's backup team | Baumgartner floated down to earth in the New Mexico desert Here is a look at some of the risks he could have faced : | Colliding shock waves, could gastrointestinal pain have hit with the force of an | Sudden decompression explosion can lead the lungs to | Low-pressure environment over-inflate and collapse could have caused him to go | Extremely cold into a flat spin temperatures and | Exposure to vacuum could have excessive heat cause his blood to boil from the sun | Gas seeping into the body due | UV radiation is more than to a relatively rapid exposure to 100,000 times as strong at low pressure 120,000 feet | As pressure decreases, trapped | Breach in the protective gas can cause dizziness, acute spacesuit or the accidental tooth, sinus and deployment of a parachute Source: Red Bull Stratos, Agencies.