We live for taking people on their first skydive – it’s what we specialize in,” said Luther Kurtz of iSkydive America.

Skydiver, daredevil and extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner died Thursday. He was 56.

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"Why is he curled up in the corner like a poor hungry street dog? This is not the vacation he imagined," asked one commenter.

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