Video Description: Type of Video:  Archived Program*

Description:  Who were the individuals who pioneered this amazing program that put Americans into space?  What inspired them to do their work?  How did they design the spacecraft and the systems that would rocket a man into orbit and safely bring him back to Earth? What were their challenges?  What were their triumphs?  Explore these questions and more as you learn directly from engineers who daily applied the process of scientific inquiry to design and build a spacecraft from scratch.

This video is one of many in our History in the First Person video series.  Videos in this series include the following types of videos available from Educate.Today:  Story, Profile, One-on-One Interview, Archived Program, Segment from Archived Program or Interview, Q & A Segment.

*Archived Program (20-60 minutes) videos offer long form exploration of a topic(s) in the area of study with single or multiple guests interacting with an audience.  In addition to being used as stand-alone videos, archived programs are also included in the collection to demonstrate areas of content that may be of interest and where additional shorter Q & A and Topical segments can be created therefrom.

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