1960 - Color, Space Race: Project Mercury
NASA Logo. Mercury Redstone 1, Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Aerial of McDonnell Plant, St. Louis & men assembling Mercury capsule. Rocket moved on crane at Marshall Space Center, men wiring, CU. Assembling in super clean white room; special harness boards, men soldering, attaching. Series of three capsules in a row. Men looking at prints, checking instruments during testing. MR-1 in place w/ escape tower. Airlifted (one shot). Testing. Static testing.
13:44:50 Moving capsule on trailer from Air Force plane to hanger S. Inspected for damage in transit. In white room checking again. MR-1 booster to pad, put in place on gantry. Capsule to pad & crane hoisting into place.
13:46:49 07Nov60 Countdown, engineers in control room. Launch stopped. Repairing, checking out.
21Nov60 again scheduled and countdown begun. CU of men in control. Antennas. Ships in recovery area. Countdown, began to fire then shut down, CU of escape rocket & parachute. Damaged booster shipped back & new one installed. Spacecraft remounted.
13:49:26 Raising MR-1 space craft to top of rocket, CU setting into place. Engineers & technicians during attachment process.
13:50:12 19Dec60 Ready to go again, recovery ships in place; project Mercury flight control center. Aircraft carriers & helicopters. Antennas, radar etc. Firing of rocket, lifting off. LS of contrail in upper atmosphere; firing of separations.
13:53:20 Four helicopters over capsule in water & hooking onto it, hoisted from water and taken by helicopter to deck of aircraft carrier. Robert R. Gilruth looking into craft.
Space Research; Space Race;
NOTE: Transferred from very faded material.
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1960 - Color, Space Race: Project Mercury NASA Logo. Mercury Redstone 1, Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Aerial of McDonnell Plant, St. Louis & men assembling Mercury capsule. Rocket moved on crane at Marshall Space Center, men wiring, CU. Assembling in super clean white room; special harness boards, men soldering, attaching. Series of three capsules in a row. Men looking at prints, checking instruments during testing. MR-1 in place w/ escape tower. Airlifted (one shot). Testing. Static testing. 13:44:50 Moving capsule on trailer from Air Force plane to hanger S. Inspected for damage in transit. In white room checking again. MR-1 booster to pad, put in place on gantry. Capsule to pad & crane hoisting into place. 13:46:49 07Nov60 Countdown, engineers in control room. Launch stopped. Repairing, checking out. 21Nov60 again scheduled and countdown begun. CU of men in control. Antennas. Ships in recovery area. Countdown, began to fire then shut down, CU of escape rocket & parachute. Damaged booster shipped back & new one installed. Spacecraft remounted. 13:49:26 Raising MR-1 space craft to top of rocket, CU setting into place. Engineers & technicians during attachment process. 13:50:12 19Dec60 Ready to go again, recovery ships in place; project Mercury flight control center. Aircraft carriers & helicopters. Antennas, radar etc. Firing of rocket, lifting off. LS of contrail in upper atmosphere; firing of separations. 13:53:20 Four helicopters over capsule in water & hooking onto it, hoisted from water and taken by helicopter to deck of aircraft carrier. Robert R. Gilruth looking into craft. Space Research; Space Race; NOTE: Transferred from very faded material.