An extreme skydiver is looking to break the sound barrier by jumping out of a "plane" at 23 miles above the Earth's surface, also breaking the highest jump record. Check out the link to see a video of his test run, where he jumped from about 13 miles above the Earth and reached speeds of 364 mph.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/daredevil-skydiver-attempts-break-speed-sound-body-162714160.html
Here's a new link. Yahoo is infamous, at least in my experience, for having very image related stories with no image...or a video that doesn't show much of what its talking about. Unfortunately, I can't find a video of the actual jump...so here's a pic
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112495066/taking-the-bull-by-the-horns-baumgartner-completes-13-mile-skydive/
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