Daredevil Felix Baumgartner Preps for 120,000-Foot Skydive
... "I practiced this for so many years and now we are almost there," he said. "So this is my biggest dream, and we are one step closer."
One step closer to a dream that would be nightmare for most people -- stepping out of a capsule 120,000 feet (23 miles) above Roswell, New Mexico to plummet back to Earth at 690 mph. If all goes as hoped, he will be in freefall for almost five minutes, becoming the first person to break the sound barrier outside an aircraft. He will break records that have stood for 52 years. Red Bull is sponsoring this mission, called Stratos, and its team of 200 has worked for five years to make this mission a success.
He already jumped from 90,000 feet in July. That was practice ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/skydiver-felix-baumgartner-ready-jump-120000-feet-roswell/story?id=17379399
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