it was captain orville anderson, major william kepner and captain albert stevens. and what happened was they got into the gondola and they went up and hit about 60,000 feet and they think that the friction between the metal and the canvas of the balloon ignited the hydrogen that was inside the balloon, and so the balloon failed. it busts up completely and they fell into a freefall. they started exiting the gondola. you know, they had parachutes. first man got out just fine. the second man got stuck in the gondola itself. and we don't know who was first and who was second and who was third. but the first man got out. he had to kick the second man out of the gondola to get him free and then major kepner we do know is actually last. he ended up getting out of the gondola at about 500 feet above the ground. so the second flight happened in 1935. the national geographic and the u.s. army air corps, they did change how the balloon was created. so what they did was they actually used helium instead of hydrogen, and that allowed the balloon to not ignite, which is fabulous