(CNN) -- Update: Felix Baumgartner landed safely on Earth after jumping from 128,000 feet. I will always wonder what it was like to huddle around a shortwave radio and through the crackling static from space hear the faint beeps of the world's first satellite -- Sputnik. I also missed watching Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon and the first space shuttle take off for the stars. Those events were way before my time. As a kid, I was fascinated with what goes on in the sky, and when NASA pulled the plug on the shuttle program I was heartbroken. Yet the privatized space race has renewed my childhood dreams to reach for the stars.
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Felix Baumgartner to attempt skydive from 23 miles up
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Weather will determine whether the jump will go on
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Meteorologist Judson Jones is anxiously awaiting the jump
Below, the @placeholder becomes the concrete bottom of a swimming pool that he wants to land on, but not too hard.