While many Americans were sitting on their couches watching NFL football, Felix Baumgartner was breaking the sound barrier.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Baumgartner, a daredevil of sorts from Austria, jumped out of a capsule 128,100 feet above ground in space. To put that into perspective, that’s four times the height of a flying commercial airline.
He landed after four minutes of free fall, but not before making the highest, faste...
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