Felix Baumgartner Retires After Space Jump Record, Says "I Did It All" on 'Today'

Record-setting Skydiver Felix Baumgartner retires.

"I had enough. It's time to move on," he says

Days after wowing millions around the world by diving a world-record 128,100 feet above the earth and breaking the sound barrier in freefall, Baumgartner is calling it a career.

"I am officially retired from the daredevil business,'' he told Savannah Guthrie on Today Monday. "I did it all. I had enough. It's time to move on."

On the show, the Austrian-born Baumgartner-who on Oct. 14, set a skydiving world record by going 840 miles per hour by skydiving over 128,000 feet before landing in a New Mexico desert-opened up about the jump, and the early spinning that took place at the early beginning of his jump, which took about 40 seconds to get under control.

Had he not, he would have likely passed out in mid jump while careening towards the ground of the New Mexico desert.

"When you spin so violent, what we call the rapid onset, all your blood goes into your brain and there's a lot of pressure,'' Baumgartner said. "I had to maintain consciousness because I needed to stop this spin, and I did. I had to use all of my skydiving skills to perform well in those four minutes and twenty seconds.''

This was not the first record that Baumgartner has set in his decorated daredevil career. In 1999, Baumgartner set the world record for the highest parachute jump from a building when he parachuted from the top of the Petronas Towards in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia-which, at the time, was the tallest building in the world at 1,241 feet.

He also holds world records for both the world's highest BASE jump, from the 1,669-foot Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan in 2004, and the lowest BASE jump, from 95 feet from the hand of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro in 1999.

Of his jump, Baumgartner said Monday, it was mostly work and preparation in getting ready for the jump-so much that he didn't really enjoy the rush of the fall.

"Did you enjoy it?" Guthrie asked.

"Honestly, no," Baumgartner replied. "This is hard work. Later on, when my parachute opened, this was the first moment where I enjoyed it a lot because I knew it was over and I'm alive.''

Video of the jump, sponsored by Red Bull, can be seen here via their YouTube page.