“Video of an Australian astronaut jumping onto earth from his spacecraft covering 1,236 km in 4 minutes from a height of about 40 lakh feet”
What FACTLY found
he person jumping from space is an Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, not an Australian astronaut. Felix Baumgartner made a record-breaking supersonic free fall from space on 14 October 2012, as part of the Red Bull Stratos mission. He Jumped from 1,28,097 feet or about 24 miles above the Earth and reached the Earth in less than 10 minutes
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 24 January 2021. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 25 January 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by FACTLY, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.