Egg Drop From Space

This is space, and this is an egg, just before I tried the highest egg drop in history. If you were never given the opportunity to participate in an egg drop competition in school, the objective is to construct a device that can prevent a raw egg from cracking when it is dropped from the highest height. Since people are constantly creating taller buildings, my original plan was to drop an egg in a contraption I made from the highest building in the world. I therefore realized that in order to truly future-proof this record, I would have to reach the very top and travel straight to space. Additionally, three years ago when I embarked on this journey, I knew if

I could rely on my past experience landing objects on different planets, and I could be sure I would set a record. I had no idea, though, that making this video would be the most taxing on my body, wallet, and mind.

Let me just clarify my thoughts first, though. The idea was to launch a weather balloon with a rocket attached to its front that had an egg clamped to it, and then launch the rocket into space. When it arrived, the weather balloon would release it, and the rocket would use only gravity to accelerate past Mach One and break the speed of sound. After that, it would independently adjust its four rear fins to steer itself to the intended location, and finally at

It would release the egg 300 feet above the ground, allowing it to fall freely onto a mattress we'd set up on the ground. And all of that seemed rather simple. As any competent engineer would, we therefore divided the problem into manageable chunks, beginning with figuring out an egg's terminal velocity.

By terminal velocity, I mean that everything, including people, has a maximum speed at which it will fall once the force of gravity pulling you in the direction of the earth balances with the force of pushback from colliding with an increasing number of air molecules as you fall faster. The maximum speed for humans is approximately 120 miles per hour. Additionally, it tops out at 75 after performing some basic math on an egg.

The plan was to set up a target mattress for the egg to land on in the middle of a field with a little bit of margin built in just in case. This was the next step in our DIY space program, and it involved returning to my friends in the small farming town of Gridley, California—the same place where he broke the world record for elephant toothpaste. - Okay, so we have the smoke charge back here so we can identify it as we're sort of falling out of the sky. The computer is this one. The fins are shown here. - By the way, this is Joe, and BPS Space is an interesting channel. Furthermore, what really cool about him is

He did not attend university to pursue a degree in engineering. After seven years of trying, he finally succeeded in landing a SpaceX-style rocket, having learned everything on his own. Joe was in charge of using these movable tail fins to track the rocket and guide it to the mattress.

I was in charge of the payload, though. Put another way, how we would release the egg itself and prevent it from freezing while it was being heated in a small oven that would burst before we dropped it. Let go of the egg! Additionally, the goal of this