The first documentary in a series of documentaries exploring mans mission to explore space. Mercury: Ordinary Supermen explores the early days of the american space program dubbed Mercury as well as other pioneering research such as the X-15 which was a high speed rocket powered aircraft which as of September 2015, the X-15 holds the official world recordfor the highest speed ever reached by a manned, powered aircraft. These projects were a gate way to further NASA project
