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To the sky and back: Felix Baumgartner's heroic deeds (VIDEO)

Roswell, USA - "Sometimes you have to go up really high to realise how small you are"

"Trust me, when you stand up there on the top of the world, you become so humble. It's not about breaking records anymore. It's not about getting scientific data. It's all about coming back home": that is how Felix Baumgartner comments his deeds, shortly after launching from 39,000 metres and landing safe and sound. In Roswell, New Mexico (USA), the Austrian parachutist got on a little fibreglass...

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Rome, Italy, 10/15/2012 13:01
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