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Today in History: Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier from stratosphere
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- On 14 October 2012 Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner ascended in a helium-filled capsule to roughly 39 km over New Mexico, then free-fell for 4 minutes 19 seconds, reaching Mach 1.25. The ten-minute Red Bull Stratos jump broke altitude, distance and speed records and made him the first person to break the sound barrier without vehicular power.