two of the men came back, orville anderson and albert stevens, they did come back for this second flighteet. they took measurements about the stratosphere and about cosmic about, you know, anything they could possibly measure. to do it while they were up in the gondola. they took an image of the curvature of the earth, which had never been done. they were recognized for their efforts. they were, you know, given medals by fdr, and it was a success, a noller round success. what makes it even better for rapid city is that it happened in the black hills. itwas here, it was local, so was just a great community involved piece of history. involved piece of history. >> next on our visit to rapid city, we take you to the south dakota air and space is he him and hear about the role of ellsworth air force base during the cold war. >> welcome to the south dakota air and space museum. people think about south dakota, they don't always think about a great aviation state, but we have a huge aviation heritage in this state. over the years, we have played a huge part in our national defense. ellsworth ai

two men came back, orval anderson and albert stevens. they did both come back for the second flight. hit 72,300 995 feet. they took measurements about the stratosphere and cosmic radiation and anything they could possibly measure, they attempted to well up in the gondola. they took an image of the curvature of the earth, which had never been done. they were recognized for their efforts. given medals by fdr and it was an all around success. what makes it 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. our cities tour staff recently traveled to rapid city, south dakota, to learn about its rich history. to watch more video from rapid city and other stops on the tour, c-span.org visit/citiesto ur. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. the albert the pay center for history at villanova university, a conversation from a series on revisionist history. exploring what the term means means and how it influences our un

two of the men came back, that was orville anderson and albert stevens. they did both come back for this second flight. and they hit a height of 72,395 feet. they took measurements about the stratosphere and about cosmic radiation and about anything they could possibly measure, they attempted to while they were up in the gondola. they took an image of the curvature of the earth, which had never been done. they were recognized for their efforts. they were, you know, given medals by fdr. it was just a success, an all-around success. but what makes it even better for rapid city is that it happened in the black hills. it was here. it was local. and so it was just a great community involved piece of history. >> our city tour staff traveled to rapid city, south carolina, to learn about its rich history. to watch more video from rapid city and other stops on our tour visit cspan.org/citiestour. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. >>> artist harvey pratt shares his vision for the national native american veterans memorial i

three men on the first flight, it was the captain anderson, major william captioner and captain albert stevens, what happened was they got into the gondola and i went up and they had about 60,000 feet and they think that the friction between the medal and the canvas of the balloon ignited the hydrogen those inside the balloon, so the balloon failed, it busted up completely and they fell into a freefall, they started exiting the gondola, they had parachutes, first and got out just fine, the second and got stuck in the gondola, so we don't know who is first and who is second and who was third but the first and got out, he had to kick the second man out of the gondola to get him free and the major was last, he ended up getting out of the gondola at 500 feet above the ground, so the second fight happened in 1935, the national geographic and u.s. army air corps did change how the balloon was created, so what they did is they used helium and set of hydrogen and that allowed the balloon to not ignite, which was fabulous for the people in the gondola, two of them and came back and that was or will and