This Is What It Looks Like to Freefall From Space

Remember BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner's incredible

freefall from the "edge of space"

in October 2012? The highly anticipated (and highly publicized)

Red Bull-sponsored

stunt was watched live by viewers around the world (including me -- it was

very

cool!) and set new records for highest jump, fastest freefall, and highest balloon-powered human flight. That day Baumgartner even broke the long-standing record held by his mentor

Col. Joe Kittinger

, who jumped from 102,800 feet in August 1960… and with seven

GoPro

Hero2 cameras mounted to Felix's

high-tech

suit and helmet, you can see what he saw during every one of the 127,852 feet that he fell down to Earth.

(That's ah, over 24 miles/39 km. Gulp.)

The video above was released today by GoPro, and is a more polished and edited version than the one released by Red Bull

this past October

. Check it out above, or for full vertigo-inducing* freefall effect watch it in fullscreen HD on YouTube.

*Consider yourself warned!

HT to Robert Gonzalez at io9