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Daredevil breaks world record with highest fall

Mission control screens show pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumping out from the capsule.

Mission control screens show pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumping out from the capsule.  (Stefan Aufschnaiter / AFP/Getty Images)

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Felix Baumgartner leaped from a capsule dangling more than 24 miles above the Earth and safely landed in New Mexico, breaking a 52-year-old record.

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