Skydiver makes record-setting jump

"Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner made a death-defying free fall that could make him the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.

He has broken the record for the highest free fall ever, the fastest free fall and the highest manned balloon ride, according to organizers.

Baumgartner took off from a launch site in Roswell, N.M., on Sunday in a pressurized capsule carried by a 55-storey ultra-thin helium balloon and took nearly three hours to climb into the stratosphere."
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