There were naysayers about his jump, claiming that the money spent didn't produce breakthrough results such as fighting cancer or AIDS etc.

But those people forgot that - it is the spirit of trying the impossible that gave us aeroplane, car or even handphone - that none of us thought possible few hundred years ago.

For a man who had done more than 2500 jumps and this time:

Jumping off at 128,100 feet, 'flying' down at speed of 1,342.8 km/h or 834.4 mph(Mach 1.24) -- that is definitely not something those naysayers can do in just few years