Video: Felix Baumgartner’s Jump From Space’s Edge Watched By Millions

[Video below.] Felix Baumgartner stood alone at the edge of space, poised in the open doorway of a capsule suspended aboveEarth and wondering if he would make it back alive. Twenty four miles below him, millions of people were right there with him, watching on the Internet and marveling at the wonder of the moment.

A second later, he stepped off the capsule and barreled toward the New Mexico desert as a tiny white speck against a darkly-tinted sky. Millions watched him breathlessly as he shattered the sound barrier and then landed safely about nine minutes later, becoming the world’s first supersonic skydiver.

Coincidentally, Baumgartner’s accomplishment came on the 65th anniversary of the day that U.S. test pilot Chuck Yeager became the first man to officially break the sound barrier in a jet. Yeager, in fact, commemorated that feat on Sunday, flying in the back seat of an F-15 Eagle as it broke the sound barrier at more than 30,000 feet above California’s Mojave Desert.

The dive was more than just a stunt. NASA is eager to improve its blueprints for future spacesuits.

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Click below a full video of the jump:

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