Adrenaline junkie plans extreme leap — from space

You’ve heard of skydiving, right? How about space-diving?

Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian skydiver, BASE jumper and adrenaline junkie who hopes to set the record this summer for the highest skydive ever.

If all goes well, Baumgartner will use a pressurized capsule attached to a high-altitude helium balloon for a “stratospheric flight” to more than 120,000 feet. “He will then exit the capsule and jump — protected only by a pressurized ‘space’ suit and helmet supplied with oxygen — in an attempt to become the first person to break the speed of sound and reach supersonic speeds in free-fall before parachuting to the ground,” according to jump plans.

For my dive, I will leap from the ISS into a pint sized cup of water.

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