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Choose from sentences/ words A – Q to fill the gaps. There are more sentences than you will need.

A. ….. carried Baumgartner in a capsule

B. ..… visor

C. …. of 833.9 miles per

D. … records..

E. ….. extremely

F. ….. atmosphere

G. ….. able to regain control

H. …. a parachute

I. ….. in permanent damage

J. …..“Fearless Felix”

K. … watched his fall

L. ….. spacesuit

M. ….. when I was coming back

N. ….. from the extreme cold

O. …. a childhood dream

P. ….. in the military

Q. ….the alien

In 2012, skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed his final daredevil dive—by leaping from the edge of space. _________, as he has been called, broke the record for the highest skydive ever by leaping from a height of 128,100 feet! That’s 24 miles above Earth’s surface.

His free fall, or the part of the fall before releasing __________, lasted for four minutes and 19 seconds. At one point, Baumgartner was falling at a speed __________hour. That’s faster than the speed of sound! He is the only human being outside of a vehicle to achieve this speed, which is usually reached only by special jets.

Accomplishing this feat was no easy task. Launching from Roswell, New Mexico, a balloon _________to his jump height. He then had to complete a 40-step checklist before he was cleared for the jump. A team in Roswell monitored his fall. But even with this level of support, Baumgartner’s dive was ___________dangerous.

Baumgartner wore a special 100-pound _________ to protect his body from deadly conditions high in the air. Because of the low pressure in this part of the ___________ , his blood and other bodily fluids would begin to boil if his skin was exposed to air. So his suit approximated, or got close to, air pressure on the ground. It also protected him ______________at that height.

At one point in the jump, Baumgartner’s _________ started to fog up. Then he began spinning out of control. This could have caused him to lose consciousness and might have resulted __________ to his body.

“There was a period of time where I really thought, ‘I am in trouble,’ ” Baumgartner said after landing. Thankfully, he had been __________ and release his parachute safely.

Baumgartner, 43, is from Austria, where he served _________. He also flies helicopters. His earlier feats include difficult jumps from landmarks such as the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia. Even with all this experience, he has been training for this event for the past five years.

Baumgartner’s jump did more than break _________. The data collected from his fall will help NASA develop stronger and safer spacesuits for astronauts. He also may have inspired dreams of flight in the more than 8 million viewers who _________ live on YouTube.

Baumgartner now plans to retire from being a daredevil and fly rescue helicopters.

“It’s hard to realize what happened because there’s still so many emotions,” Baumgartner told the press after the event. “I had tears in my eyes __________ [to Earth] a couple of times because you’re sitting there, and you thought about that moment so many times.”