June 07 2021, 13:55

I remember how we all watched Felix Baumgartner’s jump from an altitude of 39 km. Back then, everyone was writing about it. And two years later, as I recently discovered in a space museum, Felix’s record was quietly broken by Alan Eustace, the senior vice-president of Google’s science division, who fell from 41 km reaching speeds up to 1320 km/h. Well, not so quietly. He talked about it at TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_eustace_i_leapt_from_the_stratosphere_here_s_how_i_did_it?language=en