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ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Science plays regularly on Discovery Canada. Check your local listings - or just keep your television tuned there and crank the volume whenever you see a really cool spacecraft.
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The Highest Step in the World
Manned ballooning at the edge of space
Long before the first astronauts left the earth, Air Force Colonel John Paul Stapp was testing high-G rocket sleds and launching pilots above the atmosphere in pressurized spacecraft using huge helium balloons. We’ll meet the men and women who prepped and flew those missions, and the pilot who parachuted back from the edge of space - three times.