Project Mercury Summation Pt. 1 of 2
Clouds, pan to & tilt down Atlas rocket firing & lift-off. Mission Control Room; naval vessels for recovery.
18:29:06 Title: Project Mercury
18:29:11 Astronauts & NASA officials, 07Oct58 (title). Blackboard, diagrams. NASA HQ sign over doorway. Switchboard, typist; engineers; file cabinets. Machinists, assembly of components & testing. Spacecraft designing & model. Atlas rocket in gantry & men working on it. Static testing.
18:31:59 Redstone rocket motor tested. Capsule development & escape tower.
18:33:00 Testing launch vehicle & escape tower. Firing & lowering to earth. Little Joe mounted on rocket & fired; used to test acceleration on Rhesus monkey (not seen). Full-sized capsule assembled. Heat shield shown & testing for water & ground impact effect.
18:35:43 Attaching heat shield; skirt / cushion deployment & testing on track, dropped from plane. Separation rockets installed & tested. Thrusters tested.
18:37:32 Gauges; astronaut in suit; CU hand & controller. CU faces of test pilot / astronauts in testing suits. Posing. Classroom; survival situations on desert & water.
18:38:45 Zero gravity weightlessness testing in airplane - vomit comet. Centrifuge testing 13oct60 Scott Carpenter. Machine testing attitude control in tumbling space craft.
18:40:05 Individual astronaut support couches; measured, materials shown & described; tested.
18:40:34 Project Mercury production spacecraft & Redstone rocket moved to gantry. First firing of MR-1 & slow-motion of failure, shut-down & firing of escape tower.
18:41:43 MR-1A launched successfully; recovery of capsule by helicopter to ship.
18:42:13 Title: May 5, 1961 05May61. Night & launch activity MR-3 w/ Alan Shepard mounting rocket into Freedom Seven. Rocket in flight. Out of helicopter & onto aircraft carrier deck.
18:43:51 Title: July 21, 1961 21Jul61. Liberty Bell 7 prepared. Explosive exit hatch demonstrated. Virgil Grissom into capsule. Rocket, microwave tracking dishes, navy ship, observers. Helicopter w/ capsule; Grissom rescued prior to sinking of capsule.
18:45:21 Mercuy Atlas space vehicle to gantry & installed. Turning red light.
18:45:43 Title: February 20, 1962. Workers in CU. Tracking station chart; men in control room; navy ships. Astronaut John Glenn into Friendship Seven capsule. CU clock; tourists watching.
18:46:59 Lift off lights, rocket launch, tracking camera. Booster rocket firing & section jettisoned. View from tail. INT Glenn in MCU. Tracking animation on chart. Control room activity. Glenn in capsule.\
18:49:27 Re-entry sequence w/ command lights, naval officers, helicopters & capsule recovery shipboard. Smiling, waving Glenn. Continued...
Space Exploration; 1958; 1961; Successes; Achievements; NASA; Cape Kennedy;
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Project Mercury Summation Pt. 1 of 2 Clouds, pan to & tilt down Atlas rocket firing & lift-off. Mission Control Room; naval vessels for recovery. 18:29:06 Title: Project Mercury 18:29:11 Astronauts & NASA officials, 07Oct58 (title). Blackboard, diagrams. NASA HQ sign over doorway. Switchboard, typist; engineers; file cabinets. Machinists, assembly of components & testing. Spacecraft designing & model. Atlas rocket in gantry & men working on it. Static testing. 18:31:59 Redstone rocket motor tested. Capsule development & escape tower. 18:33:00 Testing launch vehicle & escape tower. Firing & lowering to earth. Little Joe mounted on rocket & fired; used to test acceleration on Rhesus monkey (not seen). Full-sized capsule assembled. Heat shield shown & testing for water & ground impact effect. 18:35:43 Attaching heat shield; skirt / cushion deployment & testing on track, dropped from plane. Separation rockets installed & tested. Thrusters tested. 18:37:32 Gauges; astronaut in suit; CU hand & controller. CU faces of test pilot / astronauts in testing suits. Posing. Classroom; survival situations on desert & water. 18:38:45 Zero gravity weightlessness testing in airplane - vomit comet. Centrifuge testing 13oct60 Scott Carpenter. Machine testing attitude control in tumbling space craft. 18:40:05 Individual astronaut support couches; measured, materials shown & described; tested. 18:40:34 Project Mercury production spacecraft & Redstone rocket moved to gantry. First firing of MR-1 & slow-motion of failure, shut-down & firing of escape tower. 18:41:43 MR-1A launched successfully; recovery of capsule by helicopter to ship. 18:42:13 Title: May 5, 1961 05May61. Night & launch activity MR-3 w/ Alan Shepard mounting rocket into Freedom Seven. Rocket in flight. Out of helicopter & onto aircraft carrier deck. 18:43:51 Title: July 21, 1961 21Jul61. Liberty Bell 7 prepared. Explosive exit hatch demonstrated. Virgil Grissom into capsule. Rocket, microwave tracking dishes, navy ship, observers. Helicopter w/ capsule; Grissom rescued prior to sinking of capsule. 18:45:21 Mercuy Atlas space vehicle to gantry & installed. Turning red light. 18:45:43 Title: February 20, 1962. Workers in CU. Tracking station chart; men in control room; navy ships. Astronaut John Glenn into Friendship Seven capsule. CU clock; tourists watching. 18:46:59 Lift off lights, rocket launch, tracking camera. Booster rocket firing & section jettisoned. View from tail. INT Glenn in MCU. Tracking animation on chart. Control room activity. Glenn in capsule.\ 18:49:27 Re-entry sequence w/ command lights, naval officers, helicopters & capsule recovery shipboard. Smiling, waving Glenn. Continued... Space Exploration; 1958; 1961; Successes; Achievements; NASA; Cape Kennedy;