Felix Baumgartner set out to be the first person to ever parachute from space and land safely on the ground almost 25 miles down. He rode all the way up their in a balloon which took about 2 hours and 21 minutes to reach its optimal height. The balloon was about 750 feet high. He hoped to make the highest jump history and be the first sky diver to break the speed of sound. There was over 300 NASA employees involved including 70 engineers, scientists and physicians who have been working on this project for more than 5 years. There was an extensive checklist that all of them had to follow to make sure everything went okay.
Every other article I read had the same basic information. The jumpers name, why he wanted to do this jump, the records he was making and who helped him to accomplish this. The only difference I found was in another article it said that the jump took 2 hours and 15 minutes, but they could have just been rounding. After doing all of these compare and contrast blog entries I have learned that many newspapers take information from other newspapers and use it as their own. The often have the same exact structure and information except for a few minor details.
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