service, frankly, heroic an unusual service. you will see what i mean from this headline that ran about him in ebony magazine in may, 1959. g.i. risks that 65 times for science. these images are from a documentary by the jacksonville historical society that credited the u.s. air force. and these images are realtime images of him in the late 50s at service in the air force, and they show some of what he went through as part of his service. his name was alton yates, his 23 years old in these pictures, it was the second class in the u.s. air force. and what you see him doing here, is participating in important testing that was conducted for the u.s. space program. they were using airmen in the u.s. air force, for tests that were designed to see whether