All the thing was highly sponsored (Red Bull - they really give you wings, apparently! 
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Why did he do it?
I don't know, but the passion for extreme sports makes people to do things that are just crazy. I guess that holding that kind of records will make him "happy".
But I read that the physician that assisted him during the preparation is the husband of a woman astronaut who died on the Columbia shuttle in 2003. One of the goals of this mission was to obtain data regarding the possibility to escape from a shuttle in trouble even if already in the stratosphere.
)Why did he do it?
I don't know, but the passion for extreme sports makes people to do things that are just crazy. I guess that holding that kind of records will make him "happy".
But I read that the physician that assisted him during the preparation is the husband of a woman astronaut who died on the Columbia shuttle in 2003. One of the goals of this mission was to obtain data regarding the possibility to escape from a shuttle in trouble even if already in the stratosphere.
