15/10/2012 19:15
Stratospheric free-fall, new record
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner landed on his feet on Sunday after breaking up to three world records with a free-fall skydive from a capsule floating more than 38 kilometres above Roswell, New Mexico.
An Austrian daredevil leapt into the stratosphere from a balloon near the edge of space 24 miles (38 km) above Earth on Sunday and safely landed, setting a record for the highest skydive and breaking the sound barrier in the process, the France 24 reports.
Cheers broke out as Felix Baumgartner, 43, jumped from a skateboard- sized shelf outside the 11-by-8-foot (3.3-by-2.4 metre) fiberglass and acrylic capsule that was carried higher than 12 8,000 feet (39 ,000 metres) by an enormous balloon.