Video: Teddy bear falls from space and beats Felix Baumgartner's skydiving record Baumgartner's Red Bull Stratos project set the world record when he skydived from a height of 38,969 metres last October. The event was viewed live on YouTube by more than 8 million people. For his 'Ted Bull Stratos' project Ackerman said that using a teddy bear was an obvious choice because of the "cuteness factor" involved. Ackerman had to remove Babbage's fluffy insides to install the Raspberry Pi computer and GPS software. The low-cost Raspberry Pi was created to introduce computing skills to children but Ackerman chose it for the ease in which it could be used to take photos. After a failed attempt earlier this month Babbage was launched from a site near Newbury, Berkshire. Babbage, like Baumgartner, was strapped into a launch capsule with an over-the-shoulder camera. The computer inside him broadcast his location and shot photographs of his ascent from a camera fitted in Babbage's eye, before switching to video to record his descent. Babbage sat on a cradle which Ackerman built and a firing mechanism on the weather balloon was triggered when Babbage reached an altitude of above 39 kilometres. The bear, who measures just 20 centimetres in height, landed just under four hours later in a field near Shaftesbury. Ackerman said: "The flight went very well. He could have gone even higher but he beat the record. We recovered him in one piece although his aerial was a bit bent. Ackerman said that he hasn't yet decided what to do with Babbage: "We have got close but I think I will auction him off for charity." The video of Babbage's jump was uploaded onto YouTube by Ackerman and has already been viewed by more than 100,000 people. Ackerman said the level of attention was "hilarious." Video Courtesy of Dave Akerman