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Google Executive Breaks Record With Near-Space Skydive

Posted: October 24, 2014 at 6:46 pm

Google Executive Alan Eustace descends from his record-breaking jump. (Credit: Paragon)

Two years ago this month, Felix Baumgartner broke a record with his near-space skydive in which he broke the sound barrier.

Alan Eustace, a Vice-President of Knowledge at Google Google, just broke it.

The funny thing is, though, is that in a project nearly three years in the making, it wasnt until the last minute that anyone knew he was going to.

As we were watching him go up today, somebody asked us what the record was, Paragon Space Development CEO Grant Anderson told me. We had to look it up! It was cool to break the record, but frankly it was not in the forefront of our minds at all.

Eustace first approached Paragon, which specializes in developing life support equipment for extreme environments, including space, in December of 2011. The goal apart from the fun of the stunt itself was to develop technologies that could be useful for more human exploration of the stratosphere and beyond.

The day of the flight began with a four-hour stint in an oxygen chamber, where Eustace had the nitrogen in his lung and tissues slowly washed out. Next Next up, he was prepared in the space suit, which is similar in design and material to the spacesuits used by astronauts on the International Space Station. (If it looks funny in the photos, thats because the life support system is on the front instead of the back in order to accommodate the parachute.

The spacesuit itself was absolutely necessary at the altitude Eustace flew to, the atmosphere is so thin that a human cant breathe. Also, the pressure is so low that even at the cool temperatures, the fluids in the body will begin to boil

The balloon that took Eustace to the stratosphere was then inflated with helium, and Eustace was hooked up in place to it. Unlike Felix Baumgartner, Eustace wasnt in a capsule. He was directly attached to a module held by the balloon.

Alan Eustace ascending to the stratosphere. (Credit: Paragon Space Development)

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Revelation: A Futurist Interpretation. chapters 4,5. Four beasts, Angels, throne in Heaven – Video

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Wow! This Hubble Telescope Photo of Mars with a Comet Is Amazing

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The famed Hubble Space Telscope has captured a jaw-dropping view of a comet making an incredibly close flyby of Mars.

The space telescope snapped the amazing image when Comet Siding Spring (also called C/2013 A1) was hurtling through space near the Red Planet on Oct. 18 and Oct. 19. During its closest approach on Oct. 19, the comet passed about 86,000 miles (138,000 kilometers) from Mars just one-third of the distance between Earth and the moon.

Mars and the comet shine in Hubble's new image. The planet glows red, and Comet Siding Spring's bright nucleus and diffuse tail stand out against a host of background stars glimmering behind the two cosmic bodies. The photo was created by combining separate images of the comet and Mars taken over the weekend. [See more amazing Comet Siding Spring images]

"The Mars and comet images have been added together to create a single picture to illustrate the angular separation, or distance, between the comet and Mars at closest approach," NASA officials said in a statement.

"The background starfield in this composite image is synthesized from ground-based telescope data provided by the Palomar Digital Sky Survey, which has been reprocessed to approximate Hubbles resolution," space agency officials added. "The solid icy comet nucleus is too small to be resolved in the Hubble picture. The comets bright coma, a diffuse cloud of dust enshrouding the nucleus, and a dusty tail, are clearly visible."

Hubble officials couldn't capture both the comet and Mars in the same frame properly because the planet is about 10,000 times brighter than Siding Spring, according to NASA. The two cosmic bodies are also moving, and Hubble could only properly track one at a time.

If the space telescope took an image of both at the same time, at least one of the celestial targets would have been blurry, NASA officials added.

Other NASA spacecraft also caught sight of the historic flyby. The space agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Opportunity rover both captured images of the comet passing by Mars. NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) and Odyssey probes were also expected to observe the comet's close pass. The space agency's Curiosity rover was also in position to study the comet.

India's Mangalyaan orbiter circling Mars and Europe's Mars Express spacecraft were also expected to observe Siding Spring's flyby.

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Obama calls for anti-ISIS NATO coalition – LoneWolf Sager – Video

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Obama calls for anti-ISIS NATO coalition - LoneWolf Sager
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The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO – Video

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The Accidental Admiral: A Sailor Takes Command at NATO
As the first admiral to take command as NATO commander in Europe, Adm. James G. Stavridis was responsible for 120000 coalition troops serving in 51 nations on three continents and at sea....

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Garry Kasparov Asks Does NATO and EU Expansion Have Something to do with Putin’s Aggression – Video

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NATO, Swedish Fighters Scrambled To Intercept Russian Plane – Video

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NATO, Swedish Fighters Scrambled To Intercept Russian Plane
NATO and Swedish fighter jets were scrambled to intercept a Russian intelligence-gathering plane that briefly entered Estonian airspace on Tuesday, the alliance said on Wednesday. The Estonian...

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NATO intercepts Russian spy plane

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TALLIN, Estonia, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Estonia called the Russian ambassador after NATO intercepted a Russian spy plane over the Baltic after it allegedly violated Estonian airspace.

NATO said it intercepted the Ilyushin-20 plane with "Danish F-16 jets as it approached Denmark" before it flew north toward Sweden. Estonia claims the plane entered their airspace for about one minute before being intercepted.

Officers confirmed NATO sovereign airspace had been violated.

"At 12:53pm. CET the IL-20 approached Estonian airspace from the northeast," a NATO military officer told the Financial Times. "I'm not aware of any incursions into the airspace patrolled by Nato other than the brief incident yesterday."

Russia denies it violated Estonian airspace. A spokesman from the Russian Defense Ministry claimed the military plane departed Khrabrovo airfield in Kaliningrad and they only flew in the airspace "over neutral waters."

In September, Estonia accused Russia of abducting one of its security officials. Relations between the two countries have been strained since the crisis in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.

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NATO sends Russia message with new quick-reaction force: 'Think about Ukraine'

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NATOs vision for its future Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) is to have up to 5,000 troops from an international coalition ready at a moments notice to deploy anywhere in the world, including the Russian theater. (AP Photo/Vasily ... more >

NATO plans to create a new quick-reaction force by the fall of 2015.

Think about Ukraine. Think about ISIL. Our president spent months trying to build a coalition. Weve learned that politically, as well as operationally, it makes more sense to do that. You just get so much more capability, said U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Frederick Hodges, who relinquished command of NATO Allied Land Command in Izmir, Turkey, on Thursday, Military Times reported. His next assignment will to be to lead U.S. Army Europe.

NATOs vision for its future Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) is to have up to 5,000 troops from an international coalition ready at a moments notice to deploy anywhere in the world.

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Were always going to be part of a coalition, if not an alliance, Lt. Gen. Hodges told Military Times. That means youve got to train and be prepared and do on short notice contingency operations that are going to be multinational in nature. Thats why interoperability is so important.

Officials from the 28 NATO member countries will spend the next two months in Belgium establishing watch capabilities VJFT will have and where they will be stationed.

Think of the VJTF as the lead element the spearhead, if you will of the NATO Response Force, Lt. Gen. added, Military Times reported. To be a very-high-readiness organization, you have to practice the assembly and departure and go do something. This is about deterrence as well as assurance.

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Overview of NSA Spying Law Since 9-11 | LeralViewerib full 2014 – Video

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