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Felix Baumgartner’s Supersonic Freefall Jump from Space!

He jumped from Space! You can see the entire earth! Amazing! After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record…

18th March 1965: Russian astronaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space, during the 26 1/2 hour orbit of the spacecraft Voskhod 2. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

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He jumped from Space! You can see the entire earth! Amazing! After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane. Felix reached a maximum of speed of 1,357.6 km/h or 843.6 mph(Mach 1.25) through the near vacuum of the stratosphere before being slowed by the atmosphere later during his 4:20 minute long freefall. The 43-year-old Austrian skydiving expert also broke two other world records (highest freefall, highest manned balloon flight), leaving the one for the longest freefall to project mentor Col. Joe Kittinger.