A new viral video chronicles an epic three-year quest.
, Rober settled on an experiment consisting of an egg held by the tip of a rocket-shaped vehicle and carried to an altitude of over 100,000 feet — about 19 miles — by a high-altitude balloon before falling back to Earth. The
, armed with fins for guidance, would target the mattress and release the egg to freefall from around 300 feet up.If that sounds simple, it proved to be anything but. What followed was an exacting, three-year odyssey of scrubbed launches,"dumb failures," lost helium and silly voices, GPS issues, eggs lost in the pursuit of science and much more.
Early failures led to what Rober described as his"ultimate phone a friend." This meant calling on his buddy Adam Steltzner, who you might"recognize as this guy from when we landed
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