andre borschberg, and were trained piccard, the visionary. >> exploration, you go into the unknown. to happen. you try to use the doubt and the question marks to stimulate your creativity. what i tell to the team almost every week is if it is easy, everybody else would have done it. >> it's definitely not easy. a solar plane lives in a tiny mathematical sweet spot, limited by weight. solar panel area, and batteries. the wing span is bigger than a 747s. but of the plane weighs about as much as a car and holds only one person. >> everything dies signis desig light. it has taken the plane a year and five month to circle. the earth. it needs ideal weather and it's not an especially fast plane. >> 55 miles an hour. >> this thing goes as fast as a car. >> not how fast you go, but how you get to the destination. i checked the plane everything works. >> no surprise to find were trained piccard driving the project. heave comes from a long line of famous adventurers. so famous, creators of star trek, named jean lucpiccard after a relative. >> named after the twin brother of my grandfather. >>