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Space Men (2016)
Directed by Amanda Pollak
Documentary, History · 55m
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.
Cast
Michael Murphy
Narrator
B
Burkhard Bilger
Self
Scott Carpenter
Self (archive footage)
F
Francis French
Self
John Glenn
Self (archive footage)
C
Cooper Gordon
Self
Gus Grissom
Self (archive footage)
W
Wally Schirra
Self (archive footage)
A
Alan Shepard
Self (archive footage)
J
John Paul Stapp
Self (archival footage)
D
Dana Kilanowski
Self
D
David Simons
Self (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Amanda Pollak
- Writer
- Amanda Pollak
- Editor
- Glenn Fukushima, Don Kleszy
- Producer
- Molly Jacobs, Stephen Ives, Amanda Pollak
Details
- Release date
- 2016-02-09
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Insignia Films