Outside of the entertainment world, and action films specifically, it's not often the world becomes familiar with a professional skydiver. One would have to participate in some pretty wild stunts to ...

Felix Baumgartner, the world-renowned Austrian pilot who was named National Geographic’s 2013 People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year for his fearless aerial feats, has died in Italy. According to ...

The free fall from 25 miles above the Earth was rife with risks. Temperatures well below freezing. Too little oxygen to breathe. The danger of going into an uncontrolled spin where the body's blood ...

The world's most famous base jumper, Felix Baumgartner, recently paid a visit to the Red Bull factory in Mattighofen. Baumgartner came to pick up his new motorcycle, a KTM 990 Superbike R, however not ...

Felix Baumgartner aborted his death-defying, 23-mile free fall into the New Mexico desert on Tuesday because of high winds and rescheduled it for Wednesday. If he survives the jump, he will become the ...

It’s been 10 long years since Felix Baumgartner, clad in a pressurized spacesuit, rode a Red Bull Stratos capsule under a helium balloon to the edge of space, 127,852 feet above Earth, then jumped out ...

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - Felix Baumgartner's historic jump from 24 miles above Earth captivated more than 8 million YouTube viewers on Oct. 14. On Monday, National Geographic announced it will air a new ...

"There it is. There's the world out there." It's been a great day for writing about views of the Earth from high, high above our lovely planet. First, there was news of the Global Space Balloon ...

Any time I hear that someone is going to try to break multiple records that can realistically never be broken, it's hard to look away. That is what makes Austrian Felix Baumgartner's 120,000 foot free ...

The mini camera company GoPro released video of Felix Baumgartner‘s epic space jump from 2012 giving a new perspective for the 24-mile skydive. Baumgartner, an Austrian daredevil, became the first man ...

The beauty of the internet was put into full effect on Sunday when 8 million people around the world tuned into YouTube to watch one super dare-deveil sky diver jump from space to, like, Earth. Felix ...

Baumgartner's jump, called the Red Bull Stratos mission, was sponsored by the energy drink of the same name and webcast live, with camera views from the ground and from the skydiver's capsule. [ ...