Space Men

Name: Space Men
Director: Amanda Pollak
Released: 2016-03-01
Duration: 55 min
Cast: Michael Murphy, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom

S28 E5 March 1, 2016 0h 55m

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Overview

In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's acclaimed Mercury 7 would make headlines. Though largely forgotten today, balloonists were the first to venture into the frozen near-vacuum on the edge of our world, exploring the very limits of human physiology and human ingenuity in this lethal realm.