<P> On October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace, a former Google executive, made a jump from the stratosphere, a shepericarp ballon, breaking Felix Baumgartner's 2012 world record . The launch - point for his jump was from an abandoned runway in Roswell, New Mexico, where he began his balloon - powered ascent early that morning . He reached a reported maximum altitude of 135,908 feet (41.425 km; 25.7402 mi), but the final number submitted to the World Air Sports Federation was 135,889.108 feet (41.419000 km; 25.7365735 mi). (2) The balloon used for the feat was manufactured by the Balloon Facility of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India . 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 helium balloon . </P> <P> The previous altitude record for a manned balloon flight was set at 39.045 kilometers on October 14, 2012 by Felix Baumgartner breaking a record of 34.7 kilometers on May 4, 1961 by Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather in a balloon launched from the deck of the USS Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico . </P> <P> The altitude record for an unmanned balloon is 53.0 kilometers . It was reached by a balloon manufactured by Fujikura Parachute with a volume of 60 thousand cubic metres, launched in May 2002 from Sanriku, Iwate, Japan . This is the greatest height ever obtained by an atmospheric vehicle . Only rockets, rocket planes, and ballistic projectiles have flown higher . </P> <P> In 2015, pilots Leonid Tiukhtyaev and Troy Bradley arrived safely in Baja California, Mexico after a journey of 10,711 km . The two men, originally from Russia and the United States of America respectively, started in Japan and flew with a helium balloon over the Pacific . In 160 hours and 34 minutes, the balloon named "Two Eagles" arrived in Mexico, which are the longest distance and duration records for gas balloons . </P>

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