When We Left Earth : The NASA Missions

Part 1: Ordinary Supermen 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 [...]