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href="/wiki/University_of_Central_Florida" title="University of Central Florida">University of Central Florida</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Computer scientist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">World record for the highest-altitude free-fall jump</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anita_Borg_Institute_for_Women_and_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology">Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Alan Eustace</b> (born 1957) is an American computer scientist who served as Senior Vice President of Engineering and first Senior Vice President for Knowledge at <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> until retiring in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Google_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 24, 2014, he made a <a href="/wiki/Free-fall" class="mw-redirect" title="Free-fall">free-fall</a> jump from the <a href="/wiki/Stratosphere" title="Stratosphere">stratosphere</a>, breaking <a href="/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner" title="Felix Baumgartner">Felix Baumgartner</a>'s world record. The jump was from 135,890 feet (41.42 km) and lasted 15 minutes, an altitude record that stands as of 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20141024-JM_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20141024-JM-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20141027-JM_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20141027-JM-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won the <a href="/wiki/Laureus_World_Sports_Awards" title="Laureus World Sports Awards">Laureus World</a> <a href="/wiki/Laureus_World_Sports_Award_for_Action_Sportsperson_of_the_Year" title="Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year">Action Sportsperson of the Year</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The son of a <a href="/wiki/Martin_Marietta" title="Martin Marietta">Martin Marietta</a> engineer, Eustace grew up in <a href="/wiki/Pine_Hills,_Florida" title="Pine Hills, Florida">Pine Hills, Florida</a>, then a working-class suburb of <a href="/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando</a>, where small ranch houses had been built for employees of the Martin Marietta Corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-Kassab2011_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassab2011-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduating from <a href="/wiki/Maynard_Evans_High_School" title="Maynard Evans High School">Maynard Evans High School</a> in 1974, he received a debate scholarship from <a href="/wiki/Valencia_College" title="Valencia College">Valencia College</a> and attended it for a year before transferring to <a href="/wiki/Florida_Technological_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Technological University">Florida Technological University</a>—now known as the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Central_Florida" title="University of Central Florida">University of Central Florida</a>—to major in mechanical engineering.<sup id="cite_ref-Kassab2011_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassab2011-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As a university student, Eustace worked part-time selling popcorn and ice cream in Fantasyland and working on the monorail at <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_World" title="Walt Disney World">Walt Disney World</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kassab2011_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassab2011-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After taking a class on <a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a>, he decided to switch majors and ended up completing three academic degrees in the field, including a doctorate in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-Kassab2011_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassab2011-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_career">Professional career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Professional career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After graduation, Eustace worked briefly for Silicon Solutions, a <a href="/wiki/Startup_company" title="Startup company">startup</a> in <a href="/wiki/Silicon_Valley" title="Silicon Valley">Silicon Valley</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Kassab2011_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassab2011-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> before joining <a href="/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation" title="Digital Equipment Corporation">Digital</a>, <a href="/wiki/Compaq" title="Compaq">Compaq</a> and then <a href="/wiki/Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">HP</a>'s Western Research Laboratory, where he worked 15 years on pocket computing, chip multi-processors, power and energy management, internet performance, and frequency and voltage scaling. In the mid-1990s, he worked with Amitabh Srivastava on <a href="/wiki/Profiling_(computer_programming)#History" title="Profiling (computer programming)">ATOM</a>, a binary-code instrumentation system that forms the basis for a wide variety of program analysis and computer architecture analysis tools. <sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These tools had a profound influence on the <a href="/wiki/Alpha_21164" title="Alpha 21164">EV5</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alpha_21264" title="Alpha 21264">EV6</a> and <a href="/wiki/EV7_chip" class="mw-redirect" title="EV7 chip">EV7 chip</a> designs. </p><p>Eustace was appointed head of the laboratory in 1999, but left it three years later to join <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a>, then a new startup.<sup id="cite_ref-Kassab2011_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kassab2011-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Google, he worked as Senior Vice President of Engineering until he retired from that section of Google on March 27, 2015. </p><p>Eustace is currently Technical Advisor<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at Opener Aerospace, sometimes giving interviews<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671Vf3PFlWU#t=16s">[1]</a> about their electric VTOL aircraft, the <a href="/wiki/Opener_BlackFly" class="mw-redirect" title="Opener BlackFly">Opener BlackFly</a>. </p><p>In the course of his professional career, Eustace co-authored nine publications and appeared as co-inventor in ten patents. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stratosphere_jump">Stratosphere jump</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Stratosphere jump"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg/200px-Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg/300px-Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/62/Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg/400px-Comparison_International_Standard_Atmosphere_space_diving.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="683" /></a><figcaption>Comparisons: Jump altitudes by Alan Eustace and others <i>versus</i> <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Atmosphere" title="International Standard Atmosphere">atmospheric</a> temperature and pressure</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2011, Eustace decided to pursue a stratosphere jump and met with <a href="/wiki/Taber_MacCallum" title="Taber MacCallum">Taber MacCallum</a>, one of the founding members of <a href="/wiki/Biosphere_2" title="Biosphere 2">Biosphere 2</a>, to begin preparations for the project.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20141024-JM_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20141024-JM-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over the next three years, the <a href="/wiki/Paragon_Space_Development_Corporation" title="Paragon Space Development Corporation">Paragon Space Development</a> technical team designed and redesigned many of the components of his parachute and life-support system.<sup id="cite_ref-Paragon_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paragon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20141024-JM_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20141024-JM-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Paragon team integrated systems for the Stratospheric Explorer mission code named <a href="/wiki/StratEx_Space_Dive" title="StratEx Space Dive">StratEx Space Dive</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Paragon_StratEx_Mission_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paragon_StratEx_Mission-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/220px-20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="322" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/330px-20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg/440px-20180328_Eustace_Suit_Udvar-Hazy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2730" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Eustace's suit on display at the <a href="/wiki/Udvar-Hazy_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Udvar-Hazy Center">Udvar-Hazy Center</a></figcaption></figure> <p>On October 24, 2014, Eustace made a jump from the <a href="/wiki/Stratosphere" title="Stratosphere">stratosphere</a>, breaking <a href="/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner" title="Felix Baumgartner">Felix Baumgartner</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Red_Bull_Stratos" title="Red Bull Stratos">2012 world record</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Verge_article_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Verge_article-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The launch-point for his jump was from an abandoned runway in <a href="/wiki/Roswell,_New_Mexico" title="Roswell, New Mexico">Roswell, New Mexico</a>, where he began his <a href="/wiki/Gas_balloon" title="Gas balloon">gas balloon</a>-powered ascent early that morning.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Verge_article_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Verge_article-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reached a reported maximum altitude of 135,908 feet (41.425 km; 25.7402 mi), but the final number submitted to the <a href="/wiki/World_Air_Sports_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="World Air Sports Federation">World Air Sports Federation</a> was 135,889.108 feet (41.419000 km; 25.7365735 mi).<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20141024-JM_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20141024-JM-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The balloon used for the feat was manufactured by the Balloon Facility of the <a href="/wiki/Tata_Institute_of_Fundamental_Research" title="Tata Institute of Fundamental Research">Tata Institute of Fundamental Research</a>, Hyderabad, India.<sup id="cite_ref-Paragon_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paragon-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eustace in his pressure suit hung tethered under the balloon, without the kind of capsule used by Felix Baumgartner. Eustace started his fall by using an explosive device to separate from the <a href="/wiki/Helium_balloon" class="mw-redirect" title="Helium balloon">helium balloon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His descent to Earth lasted 4 minutes and 27 seconds<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and stretched nearly 26 miles (42 km) with peak speeds exceeding 822 miles per hour (1,323 km/h),<sup id="cite_ref-The_Verge_article_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Verge_article-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> setting new world records for the highest free-fall jump and total free-fall distance 123,414 feet (37.617 km; 23.3739 mi).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, because Eustace's jump involved a <a href="/wiki/Drogue_parachute" title="Drogue parachute">drogue parachute</a>, while Baumgartner's did not, their vertical speed and free-fall distance records remain in different categories.<sup id="cite_ref-FAI_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAI-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike Baumgartner, Eustace, a twin-engine jet pilot, was not widely known as a daredevil prior to his jump.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20141024-JM_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20141024-JM-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eustace's world record jump was featured in two episodes of <i><a href="/wiki/STEM_in_30" title="STEM in 30">STEM in 30</a></i>, a television show geared towards middle-school students by the <a href="/wiki/National_Air_and_Space_Museum" title="National Air and Space Museum">National Air and Space Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Space_diving" title="Space diving">Space diving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yevgeni_Nikolayevich_Andreyev" class="mw-redirect" title="Yevgeni Nikolayevich Andreyev">Yevgeni Andreyev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Felix_Baumgartner" title="Felix Baumgartner">Felix Baumgartner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_%22Nish%22_Bruce" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles "Nish" Bruce">Charles "Nish" Bruce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger" title="Joseph Kittinger">Joseph Kittinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Piantanida" title="Nick Piantanida">Nick Piantanida</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Stearns" title="Cheryl Stearns">Cheryl Stearns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Truglia" title="Steve Truglia">Steve Truglia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olav_Zipser" title="Olav Zipser">Olav Zipser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victor_Prather" title="Victor Prather">Victor Prather</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Stratospheric Publishing, 2016. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0997691905" title="Special:BookSources/0997691905">0997691905</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alan_Eustace&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/12px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/18px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/24px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></a></span> Media related to <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Alan_Eustace" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Alan Eustace">Alan Eustace</a> at Wikimedia Commons</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/alan_eustace_i_leapt_from_the_stratosphere_here_s_how_i_did_it?language=en">"I leapt from the stratosphere. Here’s how I did it" (TED Talk, March 2015)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/alan-eustace-jumps-from-stratosphere-breaking-felix-baumgartners-world-record.html?_r=0">"Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere Breaking Felix Baumgartner's Record" (John Markoff, <i>The New York Times</i>, October 24, 2014)</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5468197/">Alan Eustace</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a> movie about record setting space jump <i>14 Minutes from Earth</i> (2016)</li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFF179;">Records </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><span class="flagicon"><span 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