it was captain orval anderson, major william kepner, and captain albert stevens. and what happened was they got into the gondola and they went up and they hit about 60,000 feet. and they think 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 busted up completely. and they fell into a freefall. they started exiting the gondola. you know, they had parachutes. the first man got out fine. the second man got stuck in the gondola itself. the first man -- we don't 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. major kepner, who we know was actually last, he got out of the gondola at about 500 feet above the ground. so, the second flight happened in 1935. the national geographic and u.s. army air corps did change how the balloon was created. what they did was they actually used helium instead of hydrogen. and that allowed the balloon to not ignite, which is fabulous for the people in