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October 25, 2014
A senior Google beat Friday balloon altitude record held by Austrian since 2012, narrowly missing the speed in free fall.
Image above: Alan Eustace reached 41'419 meters, 2374 meters higher than Felix Baumgartner October 14, 2012. Image Credit: Courtesy of Paragon Space Development Corporation.
Protected by a pressurized suit specially designed for this experiment, the CEO of the Internet giant, Alan Eustace, rose at dawn in the sky of New Mexico, United States, attached to a balloon to helium from the runway of an airfield abandoned. After a little more than two hours of climbing, he reached 41'419 meters, 2374 meters higher than Felix Baumgartner.
Image above: Protected by a pressurized suit specially designed for this experiment. Image Credit: Courtesy of Paragon Space Development Corporation.
He then won the balloon with a small explosive mechanism to plunge to Earth, reaching a maximum of 1322.9 km / hour, or 1.24 times the speed of sound, triggering a small sonic boom, before opening his parachute. Felix Baumgartner reached a speed of 1357.6 km / h, speed record that still stands free fall.
Alan Eustace Record-Breaking Jump Stratex
Video Above: In the early hours of October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace, Google's VP of Search, made a record-breaking skydive from 135.890 feet. Video Credit: Courtesy of Paragon Space Development Corporation.
The descent Alan Eustace took a total of fifteen minutes. "It was amazing, beautiful; I could see the blackness of space and the layers of the atmosphere that I had never seen before, "he has told the" New York Times ".
Fifteen minutes of fall
After about four and a half minutes of descent, he opened his main parachute and landed ten minutes after a hundred kilometers from the place where he had gone.
"Breaking a record in aviation is significant; it involves a lot of risk, "said Mark Kelly, a former NASA astronaut who witnessed the ascension of Alan Eustace.
Image Above: Protected in a pressurized suit specially designed for this experiment, Alan Eustace rose at dawn in the sky of New Mexico attached to a balloon filled with helium from the runway of an airfield abandoned . Image Credit: Courtesy of Paragon Space Development Corporation.
Unlike Felix Baumgartner, was not housed in a high-tech capsule to climb, but had his suit.
Alan Eustace, 57 years, prepared his feat in the biggest secret for nearly three years with a small group of engineers who designed and manufactured the suit and pressurization system and the parachute and balloon.
Images (mentioned), Video (mentioned), Text, Credits: ATS / Translation: Orbiter.ch Aerospace.
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