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• You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

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• Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

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• This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It’s not my fault. It’s just in my mind.

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• People should decide ‘are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?’ I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money – they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet.

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• Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

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• They call me Fearless Felix.

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• Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

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• Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren’t crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning.

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• To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

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• People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

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• The stratosphere is a hostile place.

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• Let me tell you – when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don’t think about breaking records anymore, you don’t think about gaining scientific data – the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

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• I’m now a member of a pretty small club.

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• I’m 100 percent sure I’m becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

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• I’ve done a lot of things in a business where you’re lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I’ll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

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• I have no privacy anymore.

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

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• I like to challenge myself.

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• I feel comfortable with what I do and I guess that my girlfriend feels the same.

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Felix Baumgartner (38)

Birth:	20th April, 1969
Nationality:	Austrian
Profession:	Base Jumper, Skydiver, Stuntman

About

Felix Baumgartner was born in Salzburg, Austria. He is an Austrian skydiver, daredevil and BASE jumper. He is best known for his participation in the Red Bull Stratos project, in which he jumped to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on October 14, 2012. He is also renowned for the particularly dangerous nature of the stunts he has performed during his career.

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