Space Men

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On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon 20 miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. Space Men tells the little-known story of the men whose scientific experiments laid critical groundwork for NASA's manned space program, a decade before President Kennedy committed the nation to sending a man to the moon
Space Men: Introduction (3:46)
Aerospace Experiments in New Mexico (7:08)
History of Balloon Flight Experiments (8:30)
Human Testing Requires Balloon Evolution (7:43)
Air Force Sets Altitude Record (6:16)
Mission to Be "First Spaceman" (7:28)
Soviet Satellite Redoubles Space Efforts (4:34)
Project Excelsior (5:42)
Credits: Space Men (1:07)

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