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October 15, 2012

Chuck Yeager and Felix Baumgartner Take to the Skies

Millions of viewers were glued to their television screens yesterday as skydiver Felix Baumgartner made his world record-breaking jump over Roswell, New Mexico. Encased in a state-of-the-art pressurized suit, Baumgartner leaped from a balloon ...

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