Michael Jordan "Failure" Nike Commercial. Felix Baumgartner: 'I hope I can make fear cool' "They call me Fearless Felix," says the man who, with nonchalant courage, fell to earth faster than the speed of sound.
Less than three weeks ago, Felix Baumgartner reached an altitude of 128,100 feet in a small capsule attached to a helium balloon before he plummeted back down again through 24 miles of cold blackness at a top speed of 833.9 miles per hour. His space jump was watched live on YouTube by more than eight million people, and the fevered reaction online was matched by saturation coverage in the traditional media. As a curiously driven man, who had dreamed of flying ever since he was a five-year-old boy in Austria, drawing detailed pictures of himself soaring through the sky, Baumgartner had achieved his greatest ambition.
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