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Felix Baumgartner is jumping to Earth from 120,000 feet up in just a few minutes. He hopes to be the first human to break the sound barrier with nothing more than his body.

He has a special space suit but this mission is super dangerous, as in life threatening.

Watch the jump live on this website.

This article appears in Oct 4-10, 2012.

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Dude Jumping From Space to Earth Right Now!

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 9, 2012

<h1>Dude Jumping From Space to Earth Right Now!</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 9, 2012</p> <p><img title="felix space jumper" src="http://www.redbullstratos.com/handlers/thumb.ashx?image=~/media/30705-Felix_stratos_25022010__16_.jpg&amp;altimage=~/assets/images/placeholder.png&amp;width=390" alt="" width="390" height="250" />Felix Baumgartner is jumping to Earth from 120,000 feet up in just a few minutes. He hopes to be the first human to break the sound barrier with nothing more than his body.</p> <p>He has a special space suit but this mission is super dangerous, as in life threatening.</p> <p>Watch the jump live on <a href="http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/" target="_blank">this website.</a></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dude-jumping-from-space-to-earth-right-now-2185960/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=21503&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dude-jumping-from-space-to-earth-right-now-2185960/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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