Felix Baumgartner, the man known for jumping from the stratosphere back to Earth, has died in a freak paragliding accident in Italy, which saw him lose control and fall into a swimming pool ...

Rome: Felix Baumgartner, the daredevil Austrian who famously broke the sound barrier in a record-setting space jump, died on Thursday, July 17, following a tragic powered paragliding crash along Italy ...

(AP) Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of space, poised in the open doorway of a capsule suspended above Earth and wondering if he would make it back alive. Twenty four miles below him, ...

Beachgoers knew something was wrong when they heard a loud boom ring out as a paraglider spun out of control, killing its only occupant, extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, when it crashed next to a ...

Daredevil Felix Baumgartner — who successfully completed a 24-mile skydive from the edge of space in 2012 — tragically perished in a motorized paragliding accident when he suddenly fell ill, lost ...

That's one of the things Red Bull stresses in its marketing message, and that's why it sponsored Felix Baumgartner in his quest to jump from the edge of space and break the speed of sound. Unlike the ...

First it was the Endeavour space shuttle and its plane piggyback ride down the West Coast. Yesterday, it was Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner and his speed of sound-breaking freefall from space.

Baumgartner was an Austrian skydiver, BASE jumper and overall daredevil. Known for multiple jumps such as from Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Today at about 1:15 EST, stuntman and skydiver Felix Baumgartner is scheduled to be lifted via a special balloon to the edge of space. Wearing a pressurized spacesuit-type outfit, he will step out of ...