He went from man to speeding bullet in a matter of seconds. Human rocket Felix Baumgartner wowed the world on Sunday night by breaking the sound barrier in nothing more than a spacesuit — leaping from 128,000 feet (24 miles) above the Earth and calmly walking away unaided after landing in a field in Roswell, NM.

“When I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble, you do not think about breaking records anymore,” the 43-year-old Austrian daredevil said afterward. “The only thing you want is to come back alive.”