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On Sunday, October 14, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner jumped with parachute off the platform which was 24 miles high from the Earth. The jump was done off the mentioned platform which was carried by the balloon to the edge of space. The man flied down through the sky at speed up to more than 830 mph. The sound barrier was broken during four minutes free fall. Then Baumgartner opened his parachute and made a running landing in the New Mexico desert. The jump was finished, when he fell to his knees and pumped his fists. YouTube broadcasted the jump live, and around 8 million people were watching live, according the information received from YouTube. Right afterwards the massages of such character as "Goosebumps ... Incredible!" as one Twitter user posted shortly after the jump appeared in the social networks. "My dad told me of Maradona and Neil Armstrong, I will tell my children of Ronaldo and Felix Baumgartner," as another user, referring to Latin American soccer star and the first man who walked on the surface of the Moon, wrote being amazed with the jump from 96,000 feet. The words of Felix Baumgartner concerning the jump just after landing were the next, he told that "It's hard to realize what happened because there's still so many emotions. I had tears in my eyes when I was coming back a couple of times because you're sitting there and you thought about that moment so many times, you know, how it would feel and how it would look like." To dub and to support as he was called “Fearless Felix” some other jumps were done. From such landmarks as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro the helicopter pilot and the former soldier had parachuted at the same moment. Felix Baumgartner and his team had been preparing for the jump for five years. The jump was about to happen twice, but each of the times it was postponed because of weather issues. In the result of the campaign the 43-year-old Baumgartner managed to fly higher than anyone ever in a helium balloon and broke the record for the highest jump. The record was set by Col. Joe Kittinger, who fell from 102,800 feet in 1960. The jump was the part of a U.S. Air Force mission. The jump occurred on Sunday. After the third delay which this time took just several hours Baumgartner finally set off. That happened at 9:30 a.m. The platform where the man traveled to the edge of the space was strapped into a pressurized capsule that hung from a giant helium balloon. The target altitude was reached in two hours, when the way back took around five minutes. As soon as Baumgartner landed, the team at Mission Control in Roswell burst into applause as well as probably all the millions of people who watch the jump live. It is necessary to mention that while the brave Australian and his team had prepared diligently for the jump, the survival of the man was no guarantee
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