Felix Baumgartner successfully completed his jump, from space, at an altitude of nearly 128,000 feet, more than twenty-four miles up.
It took two hours and twenty-one minutes for the balloon to get him to altitude.
During his journey he set the record for highest manned balloon flight, highest sky dive, and for becoming the first man to break the sound barrier without an airplane.
After jumping, he landed safely in the New Mexico desert, outside of Roswell.
With a bit of history justice, today was the sixty-fifth anniversary of Chuck Yeager's becoming the first man to break the sound barrier, in an aircraft.
The event set another record, with nearly seven million people watching it live, on youtube.
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