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You may have heard during the last few days/weeks about the jump that Felix Baumgartner is going to take from the very edge of space. If you haven't hard about this - in a nutshell Felix is going to do a skydive from the stratosphere, which is a record altitude of 37 km or 23 miles. In fact he will be the very first human to reach and go beyond the speed of sound without any craft, just in freefall. He is expected to reach a maximum speed of 1100 km/h. Beyond the record speed it seems some important scientific conclusions will be drawn from this jump. Of course he will have a fully pressurised suit and he will go up with a ballon. On a funny note he will take off from the famous Roswell - who knows what he'll met on his way up... Well after some delays caused by weather problems he is about to embark for the jump. You can watch the action live HERE...