it was a captain orville anderson major william kepner and captain albert stevens. and what happened was a they got into the gondola and they went up and they 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 the balloon failed it. bust up completely and they fell into a free fall. they started exiting the gondola, you know, they had parachutes first man. got out just find the second man got stuck in the gondola itself. and so the first man 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 was actually last he ended up getting out of the gondola at about 500 feet above the ground. so the second flight happened in 1935. they the national geographic and the us 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 ig