In a giant leap from more than 24 miles up, daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner, shattered the sound barrier Sunday while making the highest jump ever – a tumbling, death-defying plunge from a balloon to a safe landing in the New Mexico desert.
According to preliminary data, Baumgartner hit Mach 1.24, or 833.9 mph, and became the first person to reach supersonic speed without traveling in a jet or a spacecraft after hopping out of a capsule that had reached an altitude of 128,100 feet above the Earth. This video from Red Bull shows the journey… this might just be the most radical example of “gumption” ever undertaken.