This week many people were glued to their television and computer screens waiting to witness something crazy.

An Austrian man by the name of Felix Baumgartner was attempting to jump through the stratosphere. If his 38-kilometre jump wasn’t impressive enough, he even landed on his feet when he reached the Earth.

He not only beat the highest altitude jump towards the earth at 38 kilometres, but he was also the first man to break the sound barrier outside a plane. Baumgartner even beat the record for the highest manned balloon flight when he reached 113,740 ft.

The man who held the former altitude jump record of 31,300 m in 1960, Joe Kittinger, was in mission control cheering on Baumgartner. Kittinger even cheered once Baumgartner reached his landing point in New Mexico, leaving his own record in the dust.

Red Bull Stratos, the host of the mission, says on their official website that the goal of the mission was to “(lead a) mission to the edge of space, (that) will attempt to transcend human limits that have existed for 50 years.”

 Now that they have accomplished their mission, what’s next?

Will some tech savvy daredevils take jumping from space to even more exciting heights? Like Kittinger found out, 50 years of technological advancements was enough to shatter his own record. And with so much technology constantly improving perhaps we can find out even earlier.

It’s pretty neat that Space seems to be available not only to organizations like NASA, but to drink companies like Red Bull. Even Virgin, who owns it’s own space ship, has been working on Virgin Galactic. Their ship will allow people to buy tickets to fly through space.

I’d hate to say the future is full of crazy things like rocket skateboards or personal jetpacks, but with Google working on a self-driving car and companies investing in space projects for the average person, perhaps these inventions won’t be very far off from reality.