On a clear morning in the early space age, the U.S. Air Force sent a single man to the edge of the atmosphere and told him to step off into the void. The man was Joseph Kittinger, a test pilot whose ...
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner, immortalised for his breathtaking 2012 skydive from the stratosphere, tragically died Thursday in a paragliding crash in Porto Sant’Elpidio, Italy. He was 56.