Click to open image viewer. Nick Piantanida, a 34-year old New Jersey truck driver, athlete and sky diver, ascended from Joe Foss Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota aboard the Strato-Jump III ...

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It seems like the Red Bull Stratos jump (redbullstratos.com) is back on track. For those of you not familiar, the basic idea is fairly simple. Felix Baumgartner will take a balloon ride up to an ...

All of us here at SlashGear were excited to watch Felix Baumgartner jump out of a balloon 23 miles above the surface of Earth earlier today, but sadly, the jump was called off due to less-than-stellar ...

For the second consecutive day, extreme sports athlete Felix Baumgartner was forced to cancel his death-defying free-fall due to wind conditions. Maybe that's a sign, Felix. Baumgartner is looking to ...

Chances are likely that your job doesn't involve free-falling, setting a world record, wearing a space suit, risking your life or breaking the sound barrier. But in your line of work, there are many ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Felix Baumgartner is happy he never has to jump from space again. The Austrian daredevil, BASE jumper and skydiver doesn't feel that way because the famous Red Bull Stratos jump, ...

As high-tech reality TV goes, it’s hard to top Sunday’s riveting leap from the stratosphere by Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner. It took courage and skill, to be sure. But the technology required ...

Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria lands in the desert during the second manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico, USA on July 25, 2012. Red Bull Stratos is a mission to the edge ...