Terrible to hear. I even got to see his suit when it was on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center!Only mildly relevant to this thread, but slightly more than a dozen years later Felix Baumgartner has died in an unspecified paragliding accident:
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Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner dies in paragliding crash in Italy
Felix Baumgartner, the first person to break the sound barrier during a freefall jump in 2012, died in a paragliding crash in Italy. He was 56. #EuropeNewswww.euronews.com
His absolute height record fell in 2014, when Alan Eustace jumped from 135,890ft, though it remains the highest - and fastest freefall speed - without a drogue chute.