# Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it

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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- Runtime: 14 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Space
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/AlanEustace_2015)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/AlanEustace_2015?play=1)