2015年9月5日 星期六

How I fell from the stratosphere and lived to tell the tale

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September 5, 2015

How I fell from the stratosphere and lived to tell the tale

14:28 minutes · Filmed Mar 2015 · Posted Sep 2015 · TED2015

On October 21, 2014, Alan Eustace donned a custom-built, 500-pound spacesuit, attached himself to a weather balloon, and rose above 135,000 feet, from which point he dove to Earth, breaking both the sound barrier and previous records for high-altitude jumps. Hear his story of how -- and why.

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