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. But his ...

Renowned daredevil Felix Baumgartner, famous for his record-smashing stunts — including a 24-mile skydive from the edge of space in 2012 — has died in a paragliding accident in Italy, according to ...

Austrian skydiver and base-jumper Felix Baumgartner passed away in a tragic paragliding accident in Italy. The daredevil was flying a motor paraglider in Porto Sant’Elpidio, a historic village in ...

(CNN) — Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian base jumper and skydiver renowned for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, died while paragliding in Italy on Thursday, local media reported.

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 ...

Felix 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 120,000 feet was ...

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 ...

We should all have been charged a nickel to watch Felix Baumgartner jump from his balloon on Sunday. His feat was improbable, it was courageous and it was oddly, fantastically beautiful. The sight of ...

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.