The Sky-high Memory: Recollecting Felix Baumgartner’s Record-Breaking Space Freefall

The extreme sports community is mourning the loss of Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian athlete who made history by becoming the first person to surpass the speed of sound during a skydiving jump back in 2012. Tragically, Baumgartner passed away in a paragliding accident off the eastern coast of Italy at the age of 56.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/07/18/feeling-supersonic-felix-baumgartner-on-10-years-after-skydive-from-space