SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Alan Eustace, a 57-year-old senior vice president at Google, spent 15 minutes of his Friday free-falling from the top of the stratosphere. His near-space jump set the world record for highest skydive.
Eustace jumped from an altitude of more than 25 miles. After hurtling toward Earth for nearly a quarter of an hour at a speed of 1,600 feet per minute, the Google exec triggered his parachute and landed safely back on an abandoned airport runway in California, not far from Silicon Valley, where Eustace makes his living.