Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier during his jump from the edge of space this morning, but he did not set a new record for the longest freefall. The 43-year-old Austrian achieved the fastest ever freefall speed at 1,137 kilometres per hour during the 4 minutes and 19 seconds of freefall from an altitude of 128,097 feet
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