Space Men
2016 · 55 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 100 VOTES · DIR. Amanda Pollak
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.
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00:00:24 NARRATOR: In the spring of 1959,
00:02:30 into the frozen vacuum on the edge of our world,
00:05:14 FRANCIS FRENCH: John Stapp was watching jets
00:07:06 "rather than risk the court-martial
00:09:27 And one day, our boss called all the test pilots into a room
00:11:23 amazing Louis XVI and his court of onlookers.
00:13:27 And suddenly,
00:15:28 Three million cubic feet of hydrogen gas,
00:17:37 FRENCH: The Explorer Project balloonists
00:19:47 at the grocery market, and it has many other uses.
00:21:39 "I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible."
00:23:51 but Manhigh would be their biggest project by far.
00:25:56 And it needed to be that small
00:28:03 extreme cold at night,
00:30:34 You have all these loose folds of material hanging down
00:32:44 and Kittinger was sitting inside with a big grin on his face.
00:34:41 And it was very, very hard to persuade other people
00:36:48 how much the balloon itself weighs,
00:39:56 You know, there weren't new continents to explore,
00:41:56 Dr. Stapp was now not looked at as a mad scientist,
00:43:58 They took his temperature... It was more than 108 degrees.
00:46:22 needs to get out of the vehicle?
00:48:18 there's no sound, there's no wind,
00:51:47 ANNOUNCER: "American Experience: Space Men"
Cast & Characters
Michael Murphy
Narrator
Burkhard Bilger
Self
Scott Carpenter
Self (archive footage)
Francis French
Self
John Glenn
Self (archive footage)
Cooper Gordon
Self
Gus Grissom
Self (archive footage)
Wally Schirra
Self (archive footage)
Alan Shepard
Self (archive footage)
John Paul Stapp
Self (archival footage)
Dana Kilanowski
Self
David Simons
Self (archive footage)
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed840
Dialogue density15.3 lines / min
First line00:00:24
Final line00:51:47
Production Record
DirectorAmanda Pollak
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes100
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