In a giant leap from more than 38.6 km up, daredevil skydiver, Felix
Baumgartner, shattered the sound barrier while making the highest jump
ever — a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing
in the New Mexico desert. He hit Mach 1.24, or 1,342 kph on Sunday,
according to preliminary data, and became the first man to reach
supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft after
hopping out of a capsule that had reached an altitude of 39,045 meters
above the Earth. The risks associated with the jump were tremendous. His
blood could have boiled, his lungs could have overinflated, the vessels
in his brain could have burst and his eyes could have hemorrhaged. And
yes, he could have broken his neck too.
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