First Man into SpaceAmazon. com The early reels of First Man into Space should delight fans of the Mercury Sputnik era in rocket technology though it may delight fans of low budget '50s sci fi even more. A small manned rocket, launched from a jet cruising at high altitude, manages to poke its nose up about 250 miles above the earth thus making its cocky, reckless pilot the (you guessed it) first man into space. Unfortunately, weird cosmic debris clings to the spacecraft