Felix Baumgartner made global headlines in 2012 when he jumped from the stratosphere and parachuted down to a landing in New Mexico.

Felix Baumgartner, the Austrian extreme adventurer who made international headlines in 2012 when he livestreamed himself jumping and freefalling for four minutes from a helium balloon that had ascended about 24 miles above the earth,

Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, who fell 127,852 feet from space during a 2012 stunt, has died in a paragliding accident. He was 56.