See
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/australia010305_skydive.html
"Australian Rodd Millner is hoping to do when he rides a balloon to the edge
of outerspace, 25 miles up, and jumps.
If the ex-commando succeeds, he will not only become the fastest man to
break the sound barrier unaided, he will have made the highest skydive ever,
had the longest free-fall, and be the highest-flying balloonist ever to
survive."