Google Vice President Alan Eustace, 57, jumped Friday from a height of 41,150 meters and broke the record set two years ago by Austrian Felix Baumgartner.
Eustace rose in a helium balloon over the desert of New Mexico (USA) and was launched in freefall reaching a maximum speed of 1,322 kilometers per hour (822 miles per hour), breaking the barrier sound. However, it did not exceed the speed record Baumgartner, which reached 1,342 kilometers per hour.
The Google executive wearing a pressure suit as the astronauts designed especially for withstand extreme altitudes and speeds as those endured during the free fall before deploying the parachute.
Eustace jumped personally, Google is not involved in the project Eustace, which took two hours to ascend in the balloon to 41,150 meters, fell in just fifteen minutes .
The jump, which unlike starring Baumgartner in 2012 has been with absolute discretion and has hardly attracted media attention, is part of a project of the corporation Paragon Space Development dedicated to the exploration of the stratosphere.
Although Eustace is a vice president of Google, jumped a personal capacity and the technology company is not involved in the project.
The October 14, 2012, the sportsman high Austrian Felix Baumgartner risk became the first human to break the speed of sound in free fall by jumping from a height of 39,068 meters.
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