Alan Eustace
- Producer
![Imagine youre Alan Eustace. Youre in your mid-50s, youve got two young daughters and a loving wife at home and youre the Senior Vice President of Knowledge at Google but none of that matters to you right now because in less than a minute the giant balloon strapped to your back is going to inflate to the size of a football stadium as it carries you over 135000 feet straight up into the stratosphere higher than any man has ever gone without a rocket ship! 14 Minutes From Earth documents every harrowing moment of Alans unprecedented mission to promote science and space exploration. From a crazy idea sketched on a napkin to dangling in outer space wondering if hell ever see his family again youll experience every pulse racing failure and feel-good triumph of the worlds most unlikely space explorer.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjQ2MTAwMDc3M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODcwNTU1MDI@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,0,500,281_.jpg)
A computer scientist, Alan Eustace is best known for his daredevil free-fall jump from the stratosphere in 2014. He plummeted 135,908 feet in 15 minutes, which remains an altitude record. The feat of engineering was chronicled in 14 Minutes from Earth (2016).
In the early 2000s, Eustace joined a startup business called Google, holding the position of Senior Vice President of Engineering from July 2002 to April 2015.
In the early 2000s, Eustace joined a startup business called Google, holding the position of Senior Vice President of Engineering from July 2002 to April 2015.