Felix Baumgartner Plummets to Earth at 834 Miles Per Hour in New Video

What's it like to plummet to Earth when your starting point is 24 miles above its surface? What's it like to free fall at 833.9 mph — 140 mph faster than the speed of sound?

When the Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner made his great leap from space last year, it was not only the record-breaking nature of the jump that inspired the Earth-bound. It was also, and more so, the video of the leap — the camera shot heard 'round the world. The YouTube version of the dive went immediately viral. (It currently has more than 35 million views.) The footage gave people a taste — a spinning, heavy-breathed, terrifying-even-through-a-computer-screen taste — of what it was like to be in Baumgartner's shoes. Or at least in Baumgartner's chute. Read more...