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Felix Baumgartner ready to jump from 120,000 feet (and live) – photos

by | 16th, March 2012

FELIX Baumgartner wants to create a new world record for the highest free-fall fall. And live. Yesterday, Baumgartner roseĀ 71,500ft (22km) above New Mexico in a capsule hanging from a balloon. He then jumped. Eight minutes and seconds later later, he landed.

Baumgartner fell at an estimated speed of 364mph.

In later 2012, Baumgartner will go higher. He will go 120,000ft up. And then he’ll jump. All being well, Baumgartner will smash theĀ 102,800ft record set by US Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger in 1960. The trick is not freezing to death on the way down…

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In this photograph taken by AP Images for Red Bull Stratos, Pilot Felix Baumgartner, left, shakes hands with United States Air Force Col.(Ret.) Joe Kittinger, right, following the Red Bull Stratos press conference announcing Baumgartner's plan to attempt to become the first person ever to break the speed of sound with the human body Friday Jan. 22, 2010 in New York. Kittinger launched a stratospheric jump in 1960 from 102,800 feet that opened the door for space exploration and whose records Baumgartner aims to break. (David Goldman/AP Images for Red Bull Stratos)

 



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