Click to open image viewer. Nick Piantanida, a 34-year old New Jersey truck driver, athlete and sky diver, ascended from Joe Foss Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota aboard the Strato-Jump III ...

Pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria seen before his jump at the first manned test flight for Red Bull Stratos in Roswell, New Mexico on March 15, 2012. The balloon ascends during the first manned test ...

All of us here at SlashGear were excited to watch Felix Baumgartner jump out of a balloon 23 miles above the surface of Earth earlier today, but sadly, the jump was called off due to less-than-stellar ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Felix Baumgartner is happy he never has to jump from space again. The Austrian daredevil, BASE jumper and skydiver doesn't feel that way because the famous Red Bull Stratos jump, ...

As high-tech reality TV goes, it’s hard to top Sunday’s riveting leap from the stratosphere by Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner. It took courage and skill, to be sure. But the technology required ...

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian daredevil known for his record-breaking space jump, has died in a tragic paragliding accident in Italy. Following his death on 17 July 2025, online searches for the ...