ROCKET SCIENCE - The History of Space Exploration

Exclusive Interviews
Just a few of the exclusive interviews include:

Walter Cronkite – offering his own personal observations and interpretations of the space program, as seen from behind his anchor desk.

Chuck Yeager – The man who shattered the sound barrier in 1947. Exemplar of the "Right Stuff" and the original mold every future astronaut (and military pilot) would emulate.

Scott Crossfield – First man to travel at twice the speed of sound and the original pilot of the X-15.
Senator Pete Knight – "Speedy Pete", the first man to fly the X-15 rocket plane into space. He reached an altitude of more than 70 miles at speeds greater than 4,000 MPH. (Mach 6.7)

John-Paul Stapp – the Air Force Colonel who built and rode rocket sleds beyond the sound barrier.

Joe Kittinger – The first man to ride a pressurized capsule to the edge of space in the pre-NASA days, and the only man to break the sound barrier without an airplane while free-falling back to earth from more than twenty miles up.

James A. Lovell - commander of the infamous Apollo 13 flight, and the first man ever to travel to the moon twice.

Frank Borman – the commander of Apollo 8, the first manned lunar orbital mission.

Scott Carpenter – one of the original seven Mercury Astronauts, Carpenter has the unique distinction of being the only human to ever penetrate both inner and outer space, and acquiring the dual title Astronaut/Aquanaut.

Gordon Cooper – Another original Mercury Seven astronaut and commander of Gemini Five. He had to manually steer his powerless Mercury spacecraft through a hazardous re-entry when all systems failed after 33 hours in orbit.

Gene Kranz and Christopher Kraft – the flight controllers who built NASA’s Mission Control, launched the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, and brought Apollo 13 back from the edge of disaster.

Max Faget – Designer of every American spacecraft from Mercury through the Space Shuttle.

Bonnie Dunbar – offering her unique perspective on women in the NASA space program, and what it means to be a female Astronaut.

Arthur C. Clarke, Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer and Spider Robinson – award winning authors who offer their unique viewpoints on the history of space exploration, and their predictions for the future.

Wally M. Schirra – the only Astronaut to have flown Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions.

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