Ordinary Supermen
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jun 8, 2008
NASA selects seven men to become the first astronauts and fly the Mercury capsule. They're all test pilots, prepared to risk their lives. No one has ever survived a vertical launch on top of a rocket, but it's the only way they know to put an astronaut into earth orbit. NASA and America's first astronauts, the Mercury Seven, are on a journey into the unknown. Six of the men ride into space, each launch taking NASA further forward in their quest to conquer space.