Gettin' Down: Planned Record-Breaking Skydive This Year Will Include First Supersonic Free Fall

Friday, January 22, 2010 - 17:14 in Mathematics & Economics

NEW YORK--A privately funded team will attempt this year to break a 50-year-old record for the highest-altitude parachute jump, floating a balloon well into the stratosphere before its pilot leaps out for a supersonic free fall. [More]

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