ROSWELL, N.M., March 16 (UPI) -- 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.
Felix Baumgartner stepped out of a custom-built capsule suspended below a balloon and plummeted to Earth in a free fall that lasted 3 minutes and 43 seconds, reaching a top speed of 364 mph, officials of the Red Bull Stratos project said.