Felix Baumgartner is going to try the Red Bull Stratos balloon space capsule launch again today. Everyone is optimistic that the wind will be calm enough to float him up to about 120,000 feet above the Earth. That's 23 miles.Sixty-five years ago today Chuck Yeager piloted the Bell X-1 into history, becoming the first pilot to break the sound barrier. Today Felix Baumgartner may do the same—minus the plane. The Austrian sky diver and pilot is set to step out of aAustrian Skydiver tries to become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound, launching from Roswell, N.M. on Sunday, Oct. 14.Remember a while back when daredevil Felix Baumgartner planned to jump down to the earth from 120,000 feet up, everyone on the internet became infatuated with it out of nowhere… and then the attempt was aborted because of excessive winds? WellFelix Baumgartner’s supersonic leap from the stratosphere is tentatively rescheduled for 6AM MDT (8AM EDT) on Sunday, October 14th, weather permitting. The record-breaking jump from 120000
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