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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some time soon, Felix Baumgartner will take a supersonic freefall from 120,000 feet in the air, jumping from the stratosphere wearing only a spacesuit in an attempt to break the speed of sound.