Dr. Stapp's team hoped to fly a man to over 100,000 ft. above Earth. Premieres 3/1 on PBS. Project Manhigh was woefully underfunded and undervalued, but Dr. John Paul Stapp and his Air Force team were ...

Science takes flight -- Probing the stratosphere -- Explorers aloft -- Blossom, Aerobee, and Skyhook -- Early Air Force biological flights -- Manned stratospheric ballooning resumes -- Manhigh I -- ...

Aside from documentaries by Ken and Ric Burns, my favorite PBS program is American Experience, the invariably well done series that covers slices of US history. So when I heard the network planned to ...

Six weeks before Sputnik 1 ushered in the Space Age, and four years before Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight, an adventurous young biomedical researcher named David Simons climbed to the edge of space ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1783, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier launched a ...

Project Manhigh was woefully underfunded and undervalued, but Dr. John Paul Stapp and his Air Force team were certain of the project's success. Using spare parts and ingenuity, they assembled a ...