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The Man and the Challenge

Season 1 · Episode 4

Sky Diving

0.030mOctober 3, 1959

To study the effects of gravity on potential astronauts, Barton goes to France to learn free fall parachuting from a brother-and-sister team of skydivers: Suzanne and Georges Bolet.

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Episodes

Episode 1The Sphere of No Return
Episode 2Maximum Capacity
Episode 3Odds Against Survival
Episode 4Sky Diving
Episode 5Experiments in Terror
Episode 6Invisible Force
Episode 7Escape to Nepal
Episode 8Border to Border
Episode 9Trial by Fire
Episode 10White Out
Episode 11The Breaking Point
Episode 12Jungle Survival
Episode 13I've Killed Seven Men
Episode 14Man Without Fear
Episode 15The Visitors
Episode 16The Storm
Episode 17Killer River
Episode 18Rodeo
Episode 19The Windowless Room
Episode 20Nightmare Crossing
Episode 21The Lure of Danger
Episode 22Recovery
Episode 23Buried Alive
Episode 24Recondo
Episode 25Flying Lab
Episode 26Hurricane Mesa
Episode 27Astro Female
Episode 28The Extra Sense
Episode 29Man in a Capsule
Episode 30The Dropper
Episode 31High Dive
Episode 32Daredevils
Episode 33Shooter McLaine
Episode 34Early Warning
Episode 35Breakoff
Episode 36Highway to Danger