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A Crazy Guy Just Jumped Out Of A Balloon At 96,000 Feet, Hit 536 MPH, And Landed
A Crazy Guy Just Jumped Out Of A Balloon At 96,000 Feet, Hit 536 MPH, And Landed-August 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:14:30

Skydiver Felix Baumgartner just accomplished a feat that adds to Red Bull's ever growing arsenal of extreme sports accomplishments.

Baumgartner took a pressurized balloon to 96,640 feet and jumped out. He hit speeds of 536 MPH on the way down and in New Mexico. It's an improvement over .

Our planet never seems more beautiful than from a distance. Extreme jumper Felix Baumgartner…

His next jump should be from more than 125,000 feet, which would break Joseph Kittinger's skydiving record of a 102,000 foot jump.

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