Correction: US-Supersonic Skydiver-Photo-Gallery
Oct 17, 2012, 2:03 AM
(AP) – In a story Oct. 14 accompanying a photo gallery about a record-setting skydive, The Associated Press reported erroneously that daredevil Felix Baumgartner’s free fall lasted some nine minutes. His entire descent, including partway with a parachute, took nine minutes.
A corrected version of the story is below:
AP PHOTOS: Skydiver’s supersonic, 24-mile jump
AP PHOTOS: Skydiver breaks speed of sound in 24-mile-high jump
By The Associated Press
Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner became the first skydiver to break the speed of sound in a 24-mile-high jump from a balloon on Sunday, reaching 833.9 mph in a descent that lasted some nine minutes.
Landing on his feet in the New Mexico desert, the man known as “Fearless Felix” lifted his arms in victory to the cheers of onlookers and friends.
“When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore, you do not think about gaining scientific data,” he said after the jump. “The only thing you want is to come back alive.”
“Sometimes we have to get really high to see how small we are,” an exuberant Baumgartner told reporters outside mission control after safely returning to Earth.
Here’s a gallery of photos from Baumgartner’s leap into the record books.
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