🪂 Felix Baumgartner's Space Jump

On 14 October 2012, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner stepped out of a capsule in the stratosphere and fell faster than the speed of sound — watched live by eight million people online. This article tells the full story: five years of preparation, the terrifying spinning crisis mid-fall, the moment he hit Mach 1.25, and what the mission meant for science.