two of the men came back, that was orval anderson and albert stevens. they did both come back for the second flight. and they hit 72,395 feet. they took measurements about the stratosphere and cosmic radiation and anything they could possibly measure they attempted to while they were up in the gondola. and they took an image of the curvature of the earth, which had never been done. they were recognized for their efforts. they were given medals by fdr, and it was just a success, an all-around success. but what makes it even better for rapid city is it happened in the black hills. it was here. it was local. it was just a great community involved piece of history. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] each week american history tvs american artifacts takes viewers behind the scenes at archives museums and historic sites. next a tour of the japanese-american national museum in los angeles's little tokyo

is the story of the deaths of james cook moses parks allen attaway, david phillips, hampton stevens and albert minyard in hamburg, south carolina in 1876. so this is where we'll end with this one story. from a set of inquests in the csid case set this map i know is probably hard for you all to see hamburg is right here. it is directly across the savannah river from augusta. just if you can orient yourself to augusta, you're practically in hamburger hamburg is directly across the way. so here is the savannah river which is rolling down to the sea here and here is the port at charleston one of the most important cities in the antebellum south so hamburg had been settled in 1820 by henry schultz who named the town after the famous city, right and his native germany it quickly became a hub of wagon traffic would come here pulling cotton from the interior of the south at first in 1820, right? we don't have railroads yet. most of that cotton is then going by river by savannah river to ports here and then kerry to charleston by by boat. so that's 1820 by 1825 they build this hamburg to charleston rai