A Russian cosmonaut and his comrades made a jump from the stratosphere to the North Pole

Participants of the experiment dedicated the world record to Cosmonautics Day

Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, test pilot, parachutist Alexander Lynnik and founder of the Stratonavtika company Denis Efremov congratulated Russia on Cosmonautics Day with a world record. They were the first to jump from the stratosphere to the North Pole, thereby setting a new world record.

Record holders before jumping from the plane Photo: Social networks

The pilots jumped from an Il-76 aircraft from a height of 10 thousand meters. What awaited them overboard was a temperature of minus 55 degrees Celsius and a 5 percent partial pressure of oxygen at a normal level of 20.94%.

According to the K.E. Air and Space Museum. Tsiolkovsky, the very first parachute jump from the stratosphere from a height of 11,037 meters was made on August 24, 1937 by the Soviet pilot Konstantin Kaytanov. On October 21, 2014, 57-year-old Alan Eustace donned a custom-made 226-kilogram spacesuit with an attached weather balloon and climbed to a height of 41,419 meters. From this mark he jumped down, breaking the sound barrier and breaking all previous records for jumping from great heights.

Mikhail Kornienko, Alexander Lynnik and Denis Efremov. Photo: Still from video

The free fall of the Russian stratonauts lasted two minutes, after which at an altitude of about 1 km they opened their parachutes. The record holders were discovered using emergency radio beacons and a mobile early warning system.