Stratosphere skydiver Felix Baumgartner training sessions to break the world record by jumping free fall at least 120,000 feet above the earth; that’s higher than Lockheed’s U2 spyplane (85,000 feet) and almost as high as where the space shuttle booster rockets would separate after launch (150,000 feet)<br />Felix Baumgartner made skydiving history Thursday by jumping from 71,580 feet -- or more than 13 miles above earth -- and setting a world free-fall speed record of 364.4 mph.He became the third person to jump Kittinger jumped from a balloon Aug. 16, 1960, at an altitude of 102,900 feet, and fell for almost five minutes before opening a parachute to slow his descent at 18,000 feet.<br />http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/33089/skydivers+incredible+jump+from+stratosphere+spans+13+miles/<br />He made history for the highest-balloon ascent, the highest parachute jump and the fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere.from the same altitude and survive. The others were Russia's Eugene Andreev and American Joseph Kittinger, who accomplished their feats in the 1960s.
