Discovering the Void: Mercury and Gemini

This fascinating series explores America's first endeavors in the 1960s at understanding space and its cosmic effects on our planet, and the first small steps in how to safely travel into and navigate the terrestrial void. Includes space research in the early 1960s, John Glenn's first orbit of the Earth aboard Friendship in 1962; and the creation of Skylab, our first space workshop, that ultimately led to the Gemini space missions designed to land men on the moon.