When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions - Episode 01: Ordinary Supermen

Discovery Channel, Mary Crisp, Nick Green

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Title: When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions - Episode 01: Ordinary Supermen
Producer: Discovery Channel, Mary Crisp, Nick Green
Category: Science, When We Left Earth
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Added: Mar 10th 2011
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The first episode of the series documents the start of the Space Race and the flights of the Mercury Program, beginning with flight testing of the X-15 rocket plane, Alan Shepard's flight as the first American astronaut aboard Freedom 7, and John Glenn's historic flight Friendship 7 and the potentially fatal problem with the heatshield that occurred during the second orbit. Neil Armstrong, Chris Kraft, Glynn Lunney, Gene Kranz, and NBC News space correspondent Jay Barbree are among those interviewed.

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