Watch Felix Baumgartner's famous 2012 stratosphere jump
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as posted by the channelAustrian Felix Baumgartner made history when he plumetted from the edge of space – 127,852 feet up – reaching a top speed of 833 mph, or 1.24 times the speed of sound. Baumgartner smashed the sound barrier for just over 30 seconds as he began his fall on to the desert in eastern New Mexico.
At 56 year-old, Baumgartner died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to local media reports. The extreme sports enthusiast reportedly fell ill while flying a motorized paraglider in the Italian coastal town of Porto Sant’Elpidio, crashing the craft into a hotel swimming pool.
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