Red Bull Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:56:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Red Bull Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Extreme Skydiver Breaks World Records With Dive From Near-Space https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/10/14/1-extreme-skydiver-breaks-sound-barrier-with-dive-from-space/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/10/14/1-extreme-skydiver-breaks-sound-barrier-with-dive-from-space/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2012 03:53:58 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=7686 Lots of people go skydiving. They jump out of an airplane, with a parachute, and sail down to Earth.

But on October 14, Felix Baumgartner took it to new heights.

Space.

Well, near-space, anyway.

Baumgartner rode in a helium balloon 39 kilometers above New Mexico.

And then he jumped out.

It sounds simple, but it was far from it.

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