Following a five-hour hold due to weather, today’s attempt at the first-ever supersonic space jump has been cancelled. The look on Baumgartner’s face after the mission-abort was announced, pictured ...

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The Austrian extreme sportsman, known for his record-breaking skydive from the edge of space, died following a paragliding accident in Italy on Thursday (17 July). The 56-year-old made headlines ...

This is a story of one man’s audacious dream to leap from space, defy the laws of gravity, and break the sound barrier all in a single jump. Felix Baumgartner wanted to do the unthinkable. On October ...

Felix Baumgartner became famous in 2012 for writing history by leaping from the border of space. Many wonder what he possessed even if his bold leap lives on in video archives and textbooks. What was ...