Watch a 57-Year-Old Man Break the Sound Barrier in a Custom Space Suit

When he hit the ground, he tumbled head-over-heels just once, and then waved a thumbs-up to signal he'd made it As the New York Times reported , Alan Eustace broke records Friday when he ascended nearly 136,000 feet, then dropped to earth. In this photo provided by Paragon Space Development Corporation, Google executive Alan Eustace, in the spacsuit, is carried aloft by a balloon for his leap from the edge of space that broke the sound barrier and set several skydiving records over the southern New Mexico desert outside Roswell Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.

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