Daredevil Felix Baumgartner Dies
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Space.com on MSNStratospheric skydiver Felix Baumgartner dies at 56 in tragic paragliding accidentBaumgartner is most well-known for breaking the sound barrier with his body during a freefall from the stratosphere in 2012.
Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme adventurer who hurtled to earth from more than 24 miles high in 2012 and became the first human to break the sound barrier while free-falling, died on Thursday in a paragliding accident along the Adriatic coast in Italy. He was 56.
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