Felix Baumgartner of Austria poses for a photograph at the Flying Crown Ranch near Casa Grande, Arizona, United States on October 6, 2017.
Felix Baumgartner of Austria poses for a photograph at the Flying Crown Ranch near Casa Grande, Arizona, United States on October 6, 2017.

Felix
Baumgartner

Austria

Austria

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Aerobatic Flying

Felix Baumgartner will forever be the man who fell from space – indelibly linked with the moment when he jumped from a capsule nearly 40km above the New Mexico desert and the world held its breath.

Date of birth

20 April 1969

Place of birth

Salzburg, Austria

Age

56

Nationality

Austria

Austria

Career start

1988

Disciplines

Aerobatic airshows / B.A.S.E. Jumping

Now well over a decade on from October 14, 2012, one of the first moments of global virality in the digital age, Felix Baumgartner's achievement feels no less inspiring.

After stepping from his specially built capsule, Baumgartner plunged at a top speed of 1,357.6kph and broke three world records in the process: the highest freefall, highest crewed balloon flight and first person to travel faster than the speed of sound in freefall.