People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach. My jump gave them an opportunity to come along for the ride. They could watch live on their screens how someone rises all the way up into the stratosphere.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.