Read all The U. Narrator : There was a demon that lived in the air. They said whoever challenged him would die. Their controls would freeze up, their planes would buffet wildly, and they would disintegrate. The demon lived at Mach 1 on the meter, seven hundred and fifty miles an hour, where the air could no longer move out of the way. He lived behind a barrier through which they said no man could ever pass. They called it the sound barrier. Sign In. Play trailer Adventure Biography Drama.
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Storyline Edit. Tom Wolfe 's book on the history of the U. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it.
Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once. By flying higher and faster than any other man had ever dared before, Chuck Yeager set the pace for a new breed of hero. Those that had just one thing in common Adventure Biography Drama History.
Did you know Edit. Trivia The mysterious "fireflies" observed by John Glenn on his first orbital flight were actually tiny flakes of frost illuminated by sunlight.
As the spacecraft orbited into darkness behind the Earth, the sub-zero temperatures caused condensation on its skin to freeze. When warmed by the sun on the other side of the orbit, the temperature change caused some of this frost layer to break free and to be illuminated by the sun. This was confirmed by astronaut Scott Carpenter on the next Mercury flight when he banged on the craft's side, causing more of the flakes to break free and become visible.
Goofs When Yeager makes the first supersonic flight, we see the plane's Machmeter going offscale because it only reads up to Mach 1. Although this seems completely silly because the plane was always intended to fly supersonically, it is in fact what happened.
Describe what the chapter's title of "On the Balcony" refers to. Why don't the wives ever discuss the dangers their husbands face each day? In detailing the experiences of the astronauts, the author states that "everywhere they went in their travels people stopped what they were doing and gave them a certain look of awe and sympathy. Why do they look at them with sympathy? NASA originally needs six astronauts for the Mercury program, but is going to take twelve astronauts.
What is written in Conrad's file as a reason he isn't selected for the Mercury program? The engineers tend to feel that the glorification of the astronauts has really gotten out of control. Why do they feel that way?
Name two reasons that fighter pilots hate to declare an emergency. View all Lesson Plans available from BookRags. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation.
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