That goes beyond the culture of the area. We are talking about the strata owl and theatob stratoballoon flight. Rapid city area is the home of the first spaceflight. What the National Geographic and u. S. Army air corps did is Work Together to make this happen and they wanted to find a natural shape to wrap the balloon and gondola in. They were looking for an area to spread out the balloon on the ground and also the natural bowl shaped to protect the gondola for the first couple thousand. Eet as it goes up they scoured all of north america and they had a couple different decisions. They chose rapid city because of how kind the people were and how welcoming we are. Nice butct shape was it did come down to the people of the area. That was the reasoning behind choosing it. In 1934. Happened there were three men on that first flight. Captain orville anderson, major william, and captor out captain albert stevens. And got into the gondola went up 60,000 feet. They think that the friction bet
Announcer next, an American History tv exclusive. Ou cities tourr to rapid city, south dakota. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits tour. Span. Org cities the cspan cities tour is on the road, exploring the american story. With support from our cable partners, this weekend we travel to rapid city, south dakota, featuring lifesize statues of each of our nations mr. President s. We experience this history of this city of 5000. We will take you into the Black Hills National Forest with a trip to Mount Rushmore national memorial, the states most visited tourist site. In 20 minutes, it is onto one of the most Sacred Places in the world for many native americans. And later, we will visit the Journey Museum to hear about the devastating flood that changed the look of rapid city. We begin with the history of Mount Rushmore. The heart of south dakotas black hills. There it is, the 6
The first manned flight into the earths stratosphere. In 1935, two Army Captains named anderson and stevens sailed off from the south Dakota Plains to a recordbreaking 72,000 feet. Were really lucky in rammpi city. We have some interesting history that goes just beyond the culture of the area. Were talking about the stratobowl and the stratosphere flights. In sending man up above the stratosphere. Essentially rapid city area is the home of the first space flight. So what the National Geographic and u. S. Army air corps did was they decided to Work Together to make this happen. And they wanted to find a natural shape to rest the balloon and gondola in. So they were looking for a bowl area. That bowl shape protects the gondola as it goes up so they scoured all of north america for a place. They had a couple of different decisions that they could have made, places they could have chosen. Essentially they chose rapid city because of how kind the people were and how welcoming we are. The pe
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