Felix Baumgartner is prepared to attempt the record breaking supersonic skydive from the edge os space again today.
"Fearless" Felix's week in Roswell, NM was full of false starts. On Monday the jump was postponed due to wind and it was aborted again on Tuesday because of gusts. The balloon used to lift Baumgartner's and the capsule in which he sits is incredibly sensitive. It cannot take off if winds are above 2 miles per hour.
Baumgartner is not the first person to attempt to break the highest, fastest, and longest freefalls. A number of those who have gone before him have lost their lives in the process.
"If something goes wrong, the only thing that might help you is God," says Baumgartner. "Because if you run out of luck, if you run out of skills, there is nothing left and you have to really hope he is not going to let you down."
The previous record for height was set in 1960 by retired Air Force Colonel Joe Kittinger. He jumped from a balloon at a height of 31.3km (19.44 miles).
The 43-year-old hopes to become the first person to break the sound barrier outside of an airplane. The former military parachutist from Austria planned to take off in a 55-story, ultra-thin helium balloon that would take him into the stratosphere.
Baumgartner will make a nearly three-hour ascent to 120,000 feet, then take a bunny-style hop from a pressurized capsule into a near-vacuum where there is barely any oxygen to begin what is expected to be the fastest, farthest free fall from the highest-ever manned balloon.
Baumgartner, who has made more than 2,500 jumps from planes, helicopters, landmarks and skyscrapers, has been preparing for this leap for five years.
After 25 years of skydiving, Baumgartner promises this jump will be his last.
He says he plans to settle down with his girlfriend and fly helicopters on mountain rescue and firefighting missions in the U.S. and Austria.
The venture is being sponsored by energy drink maker, Red Bull, and the company won't say how much the project is costing.
Watch Felix Baumgartner's Stratos Jump live stream sponsored by Red Bull, click here.