Daredevil breaks world record with highest fall

Mission control screens show pilot Felix Baumgartner of Austria jumping out from the capsule. (Stefan Aufschnaiter / AFP/Getty Images)

Oct. 1, 2012 3:53 PM PT

Felix Baumgartner leaped from a capsule dangling more than 24 miles above the Earth and safely landed in New Mexico, breaking a 52-year-old record.