Pages

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Alan Eustace(57),Google boss jumps from edge of space

Alan Eustace(57)from Google has set a new skydiving record by jumping successfully from near the top of the stratosphere - about 135,000 feet, or 41,000 metres high, breaking the 2012 record by Austrian Felix Baumgartner.

The record dive by 57-year-old Alan Eustace, who is a "senior vice president of knowledge" at Google, was conducted as part of a project allowing manned exploration of the stratosphere above 100,000 feet

Alan Estace's free fall lasted about 5-minutes and he deployed his parachute at 18000 feet

No comments:

Post a Comment