It’s more than extreme: skydiving from the stratosphere, or nearly at the edge of space. That’s what 57-year-old Alan Eustace did on Friday, October 24, when he jumped from a height of 135,000 feet, or 41,000 meters, as part of the Stratospheric Explorer project. According to a statement from the Paragon Space Development Corporation, Eustace completed the four-hour mission over Roswell, New Mexico, using a specially designed space suit and balloon module to carry him to the stratosphere. He broke the previous record set by Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner in 2012, jumping from a height of nearly 128,000 feet or 38,969 meters, also from New Mexico. According to Paragon, the system has wide-ranging applications for the study of the science of the stratosphere.
Watch a video of his jump, and read more about the feat, on Rappler.
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