DVD
Space men
Languages
In English, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Narrated by Michael Murphy.
Publication Information
[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 60 minutes) : sound, color, ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Added Uniform Title
Summary
On an August morning in 1960, Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger stepped out of a helium balloon twenty miles above Earth, hurtling down at over 400 miles per hour. 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.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally broadcast on PBS as an episode of American experience in 2016.