Category: Red Bull Stratos

Video: What Drives the American Spirit of Innovation—Interview With Red Bull Stratos Tech Director Art Thompson

The problem of intellectual property theft by the Chinese government, and even similar intellectual property theft by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, would appear to be unnecessary in the context of STEM education. So what is it that really drives American innovation and the spirit to push the limits of human accomplishment? To…


A Modern-Day Da Vinci: Art Thompson Fabricates Dreams Into Reality 

Along with more than 3 billion spectators, Art Thompson’s anxiety grew as he intensely watched monitors in a packed control room in New Mexico. Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner was about to leap from a capsule, 128,560 feet (24.5 miles) above the earth’s surface. On Oct. 14, 2012, 50 seconds after stepping off the capsule ledge,…