Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it
Alan Eustace: Ik ben uit de stratosfeer gesprongen. Zo heb ik dat gedaan
Alan Eustace leapt to Earth from the edge of the stratosphere wearing only a spacesuit, shattering skydiving records and potentially revolutionizing the commercial space industry. Full bio
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from our backyard
rijden naar de Cape.
in the hour over to the Cape.
van de ruimte en zo,
space and everything about it,
by the engineering that went into it.
from the International Space Station,
vanuit internationaal ruimtestation ISS.
and you go up and up and up,
of the stratosphere,
en dan wordt het weer warmer.
and then it starts warming up,
kunt overleven zonder bescherming.
almost survive without any protection,
getting colder and colder,
toegankelijke plekken van de aarde.
places on our planet.
who are blazing up at it
omhoog gestuwd worden
the speed of sound,
een paar keer de geluidssnelheid.
ball of fire coming back in,
ontstaat zo'n gloeiende vuurbal.
blijven hangen in de stratosfeer.
possible to linger in the stratosphere?
the stratosphere?
the stratosphere?
my favorite search engine
met mijn favoriete zoekmachine.
spannend telefoongesprek.
to call Taber MacCallum
om Taber MacCallum te bellen,
Development Corporation,
gingen we ervoor.
we proceeded to do just that.
41.419 meter.
at speeds of up to 822 miles an hour.
met 1.323 kilometer per uur.
and 27-second descent.
opende ik de parachute en landde ik.
I opened a parachute and I landed.
verhaal, over techniek.
and it's really an engineering talk,
about that experience
we can build a stratospheric suit,
een stratosfeerpak maken.
that formed the core of the group
die het uiteindelijk maakte.
which I think is important,
belangrijk was.
the analogy of scuba diving.
duiken met luchtflessen.
zelfstandig systeem.
that you could ever need.
into the stratosphere.
dat door ILC Dover was gemaakt.
that was made by ILC Dover.
that made all of the Apollo suits
dat alle Apollo-pakken heeft gemaakt,
activity suits.
commercieel verkocht.
which I am very grateful for.
waar ik dankbaar voor ben.
This was all about safety.
Dat ging over veiligheid.
en twee kleine kinderen heb --
and two small children --
and a reserve parachute,
en een reserveparachute.
because of an automatic opening device.
can protect me from the cold.
thermische bescherming.
has thermal protection.
that will wrap around my body.
dat rond mijn lichaam stroomt.
a quarter-inch hole in this suit,
tegen de lage druk in de ruimte.
from the low pressure of space.
zijn gewicht en complexiteit.
is weight and complexity.
recently to go up in the stratosphere,
recente poging naar de stratosfeer,
amount of complexity that goes into it,
to an altitude of 135,000 feet,
that was 45 to 50 million cubic feet.
van 1,3 tot 1,4 miljoen kubieke meter.
500 pounds in this system,
woog met dit systeem,
that was five times smaller than that,
die vijf keer zo klein was.
that was dramatically simpler
veel simpeler zijn
bij een veel grotere ballon.
for a much larger balloon.
New Mexico, op 24 oktober.
to Roswell, New Mexico, on October 24.
dat midden in de nacht opstond.
that got up in the middle of the night.
die je zo zal zien.
that you'll see in a second,
of the actual launch.
van de lancering.
to launch balloons,
om te landen met een parachute,
to land under a parachute,
70 miles away from the place you started.
dan waar je gestart bent.
op de achtergrond.
and a half pre-breathing.
aan het voorademen.
air-conditioned van
een mooi busje met airco
maar ik had die wiellader.
but I got a front loader.
You can see the balloon up there.
Hier zie je de ballon.
20 kilometer vrijmaakt met de FAA.
with the FAA for 15 miles.
is the emergency cutaway.
in nood kon lossnijden.
from using my right hand.
om mijn rechterhand te gebruiken.
Een soort omgekeerde Google Earth.
It's kind of like Google Earth in reverse.
and seven minutes to go up,
twee uur en zeven minuten.
two hours and seven minutes.
zuurstof te gebruiken.
very much oxygen.
in the background
dat de velden hier
because if you look,
and I'm probably at 50,000 feet,
op ongeveer 15.000 meter,
in de stratosferische wind
into a stratospheric wind
that I had just gone higher
dat ik zojuist hoger ben gekomen
had ever gone in a balloon,
the curvature of the Earth,
de ronding van de aarde,
de noodprocedures.
mentally right now.
I want to be ready.
and stay completely stable.
going by, fully inflated at this point.
nog helemaal opgeblazen.
which I'll demonstrate in just a second,
die ik zo meteen demonstreer,
going by a second time.
at the speed of sound.
van het geluid.
it's the speed of sound,
mijn topsnelheid halen,
as fast as I ever get,
the parachute come out right there.
dat de parachute zich uitvouwt.
that there's a parachute out.
dat de parachute eruit is.
was really happy as well.
ook heel erg blij.
is the moment I opened --
was het mooiste
mijn parachutemaatje.
Blikkies, my parachute guy.
and he actually jumped out
en sprong eruit,
kan beter neerstorting heten.
properly called a crash.
niet mijn slechtste landing.
even close to my worst landing.
in that video,
of the entire thing was the release
was het ontkoppelsysteem,
something called a drogue parachute,
wat ze een ankerparachute noemen.
was there to stabilize me.
een tandemsprong heeft gemaakt,
gone tandem skydiving,
zoiets gebruikt.
you're in zero gravity.
als je loslaat.
to just turn right around you.
you can be tangled up or spinning,
raak je verstrikt of ga je draaien,
1.300 kilometer per uur daalt
is you're going down at 800 miles an hour,
Technologies came up with this idea,
Technologies kwamen met dit idee.
als ik hem eruit trekt.
and wrap it around,
en rond kunt slingeren.
it will ever tangle with you.
a very serious potential problem.
without an amazing team of people.
een geweldig team van mensen.
of this whole thing was,
wat het beste was van dit alles.
met de beste experts te werken
to work with the best experts
and parachute technology
parachutetechnologie,
and high altitude medicine.
to work with that group of people.
om te werken met die groep mensen.
bij Google bedanken.
wanted to thank my friends at Google,
tijdens deze poging,
in the times that I was away.
die ik wil bedanken: mijn familie.
I wanted to thank, and that's my family.
de veiligheid van techniek,
about the safety of technology,
that my wife put up with it
after each of the 250 tests,
na elke van de 250 tests.
to take that away from me.
15 jaar, in de auto,
she and I were in the car,
Ze zat daar.
and she was sitting there,
"Dad, I've got this idea."
Pap, ik heb een idee.
and I said, "Katelyn, that's impossible."
"Katelyn, dat kan niet."
after what you just did,
dat iets niet kan?"
"Oké, het is niet onmogelijk.
"OK, it's not impossible,
and I said, "Katelyn,
"Katelyn,
it may not even be very, very hard,
of zelf heel erg moeilijk.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alan Eustace - Stratospheric explorerAlan Eustace leapt to Earth from the edge of the stratosphere wearing only a spacesuit, shattering skydiving records and potentially revolutionizing the commercial space industry.
Why you should listen
Two years after Felix Baumgartner jumped from a capsule in the stratosphere for Red Bull, a quiet group led by now-retired Google exec Alan Eustace beat the height record -- without a capsule. (Neither livestreamed nor promoted, the jump record was announced the next day.) In a custom 500-pound spacesuit, Eustace was strapped to a weather balloon, and rose to a height of over 135,000 feet, where he dove to Earth at speeds exceeding 821 mph -- breaking both the sound barrier and previous records for high-altitude jumps.
Leading up to this jump, Eustace and his partners in StratEx had spent years solving a key problem of stratosphere exploration: returning human beings to Earth from the edge of space using minimal life-support systems. In the process, they’ve opened the door to cheaper and safer near-space travel.
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