one man who isn't is alan eustace, a senior google executive who in 2014 broke the world record for the highest parachute jump. he took a balloon more than 135,000 feet into the stratosphere and skydived back to earth. the space suit he wore is now on display at the smithsonian's national air and space museum in virginia. jane o'brien kept her feet firmly on the ground and went to take a look. what goes up must come down but simply reaching the earth's stratosphere was the first challenge for alan eustace. it took more than 2 hours to ascend 25 miles and around 15 minutes to parachute back to earth, at times travelling faster than the speed of sound. previous explorers used complicated platforms and shall, mr eustace is the balloon and a very special suit. what was really unique about this was we tried to build the space that was equivalent to scuba diving wet tanks were included so they didn't i did have to disconnect from the shall, didn't have to have a heavy shall, all had to do was like scuba dive in an environment that was capable to sustain me during that time. that suit is now i

one man who isn't is alan eustace. in 2014, he broke the world record for the highest parachute jump, and the spacesuit he wore is now on display in the united states. jane 0'brien reports from the air and space museum in virginia. what goes up must come down, but simply reaching the earth's stratosphere was the first challenge for alan eustace. it took more than two hours to ascend 25 miles and around 15 minutes to parachute back to earth, at times travelling faster than the speed of sound. previous explorers used complicated platforms and capsules, mr eustace used a balloon and a very special suit. what was really unique about this is we tried to build a space suit that was equivalent to scuba diving, where the tanks were included so that i didn't have to disconnect from a capsule, i didn't have to have a heavy capsule to go up. all i had to do was like scuba diving. ijust went up in a suit in an environment that was capable of sustaining me during that period of time. that suit is now on display at the national air

one man that isn't is alan eustace. tea set the record for the highest parachute jump in 2014. spacesuitn -- the that he wore is on display in virginia. jane o'brien went to look. jane: what goes up must go down, but reaching the stratosphere was the first challenge. it took two hours to ascend and 15 minutes to parachute to earth, at times traveling faster than the speed of sound. previous explorers used complicated capsules. ance used ebola on and a special suit. alan: we tried to build a space suit that was the equivalent to scuba diving with tanks included . i did not have to disconnect or have a heavy capsule. in ascuba diving i went up suit in an environment capable of sustaining me in that time. that is on display at the national air and space museum in virginia, home to other out -- other artifacts of space exploration. ofn: everyone i know dreamed being an astronaut, being above the atmosphere, looking at the curvature of the earth, the darkness of space. in my case, that dream never went away. at 57 years old i am still dreaming. jane: the record-breaking suit cheaply

they've got a report on alan eustace — the google executive who in 2014 broke the world record for the highest parachute jump. here in the uk, the news at ten is next. they'll have much more on monday's attack on that christmas market in berlin. ed thomas has been looking into the current state of the investigation. let's go to beijing because the chinese capital has been blanketed in thick smog since the weekend — and that's led the authorities there to take drastic measures to minimise the pollution crisis. despite these measures things haven't improved over the last few days. the bbc‘s stephen mcdonell has been out on the streets of beijing to test the air quality. in beijing this week people say they are living under the dome, after days on end of heavy pollution it feels like being trapped under a giant toxic cloud. so how bad is beijing's pollution at the moment? i have brought this device outside to try to measure it. you would normally have this little thing inside your house measuring if air pollution is coming in from the outside. i sent it to measure the particular. thes