🪂 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.
Lesson Plan
- True story with vocabulary highlights
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Past simple for narrative
- Past perfect for events before a main event
- Passive voice
- Reported speech
- Conditional sentences
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