Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Space men / an Insignia Films production for American experience ; American Experience Films, PBS ; produced by Amanda Pollak, Stephen Ives ; written and directed by Amada Pollak.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[Arlington, Virginia] : PBS Distribution, [2016]

Description:

1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. stamping

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

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.

Target Audience Note:

TV parental guidelines rating: TV-PG (parental guidance suggested; this program contains material that parents may find unsuitable for younger children).

Subjects:

Kittinger, Joe, 1928-

Simons, David G.

Stapp, John P. (John Paul), 1910-1999.

United States. Air Force.

United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.

Aerospace Medicine

Manned space flight -- Research -- United States -- History.

Space flight -- Physiological effect -- Research -- United States -- History.

Manned space flight -- History.

Aeronautics -- Research -- United States -- History.

Balloonists -- United States -- Biography.