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Skydiver sets 3 records with 24-mile leap
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier Sunday in a world record-shattering jump from a balloon floating 24 miles above the Earth.
Daredevil's 23-mile jump aborted
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner's 23-mile jump from a balloon above Roswell, N.M., was postponed Tuesday due to high winds.
Daredevil readies 23-mile free fall
An Austrian aerial daredevil planning to leap and free-fall from a balloon 23 miles over New Mexico says he will go supersonic before his parachute opens.
UPI Almanac for Friday, Sept. 14, 2012.
Skydiver in 4-minute free-fall jump
An Austrian who made a free-fall jump from 71,581 feet into New Mexico that lasted nearly 4 minutes plans to make a 120,000-foot "space jump," officials said.
An Austrian skydiver says he'll attempt to set the record for highest skydive in history this year, aiming to fall faster than the speed of sound.
An Austrian daredevil says he will attempt the highest skydive in history that will see him exceed the speed of sound during his descent.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011.
A plan by an Austrian daredevil to break the world's record for the highest skydive has been put on hold by a lawsuit, organizers of the attempt say.
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008.
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Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch