Freedom 7 - Full Mission
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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The countdown, launch, flight and recovery of Mercury Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) with astronaut Alan Shepard aboard. May 5th 1961.
I have used the audio from the PAO, the Air-to-Ground and fitted stock video with it. I have used OSFS to show sequences after SECO and various photos to illustrate sequences where video is not available. The final sequence with Alan on the cockpit cam is not in sequence. I tried for hours to try to synch the video but have not managed to get it right. My apologies.
All video and photos are courtesy NASA
My dad was a teletype operator on this mission in the Canary Islands. His gift to me was the full original minute by minute roll of teletype with his and and his coworker's names at the top.I do treasure it.
Elizabeth Lilley thats a great story Elizabeth, thanks for sharing. Must be good to know that your Dad was a part of space history. Keep hold of that teletype, it is an important part of space history. regards LM5
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Wow. That's really cool.
Perfect item to put it on eBay!😁
Gran Canaria?
60 years ago today. RIP Mr.Shepard and we thank you!
Amen to that I can't believe It's been that long ago 05/05/1961 to 05/05/2021 where has the time gone they've sure have come a long way since then and now It's Space X Crew Dragon.
@@nicolaephillips5778 Yep.
Again, I couldn't wait to finish viewing and had to thank you for these beautiful scenes. Most of them I never seen, thanks again!
I'm listening to the audio book of "The Right Stuff"...while he was waiting for hours on the launch he could not hold his bladder any more...and the techs said go ahead and go in your suit...which he did. Notice he is leaning down and back. It all pooled behind his upper back. Must have been a thrilling and wet miserable ride the whole time.
Boyd White he later reported that the suit oxygen system dried it out. There was a “sponge squeezer” in the suit loop to control humidity.
Great stuff!!! Very much thanks for most high quality efforts, persevering the legacy of history.
Per Van Valkenburg welcome!
US Navy/ NASA test pilot Alan Shepard. These were the years leading up to December 1968 and July 1969 making those historic achievements possible. A lot of hard work and brave men. 🇺🇸
53 years ago today: Alan Shepard became the first American in space!
I have vague recollections of when this happened. Hard to believe we have come so far -- now we have the Voyagers 1 and 2 travelling through interstellar space. Incredible.
First one was Glenn Shepard was suborbital
But anyway.....Soviets were first!!!
I have always been fascinated by the two manned suborbital missions, thanks for posting. While I recognize the Orbiter app screen footage, some of the other footage looks historic. My question: Assuming thart the launch footage is from the actual event as it appears to be, wasvthe rocket jerking up and down as it appears to be doing, or was thay merely the camera moving for some reason?
its the camera
My left ear enjoyed this
Listen to John "Shorty" Powers use the phrase A OK.The astronauts never said that.That was something he made up to tell to the TV viewers.It caught on and even today I occasionally hear it.
Garland English Yeah, I wish Shorty Powers would shut up. I want to hear Shepard. :-)
We couldn't hear Shepard on television or radio.We had to depend on Shorty Powers.
You didn't climb into a Mercury capsule, you squeezed into it.
+Fairview They went from a box to the Space Shuttle within 20 years.
And bolted into it
You werent in it, you were wearing it
At 15:00 reentry starts with G s building up to 9 G, you can hear Sheppards strained voice reporting " OK " confirming still being conscious .
This was so good👏🏻👏🏻
60 years ago Alan Shepard accomplished his 15 minute successful flight. Today SpaceX accomplished their 6 minute SN15 flight and successful landing...where will we be 60 years from today!
Godspeed, Admiral.
I wonder if we'll ever see the day when spaceflight is only just as dangerous as taking off in a jumbo jet.
I wonder who the photographer was when Shepard was entering the cockpit? I bet those photos are something.
America RETURNS To Space On May 27th, 2020!!! God Speed The First Launch From Cape Canaveral Since 2011, when the Space Shuttle Atlantis flew on their last of the Shuttle missions... @NASA @SpaceX
no inflight coffee
No "light this candle" moment recorded?
Its not in the audio currently released by Nasa
I dream becoming a astronaut like Neil Armstrong be the first Australian to walk on the moon in July 2024 and be the first man and woman to walk and stay on mars
parts of Shepard
Number 1 schoole
A couple of things. Notice Shepard said he did not get a green light that the retro pack had separated, and he immediately overrode the system without a second's pause. The original Mercury astronauts were test pilots used to things not going right.
Also, I was a kid when this occurred and remember how easy it all looked. But watching this, it makes you realize how many things could have gone wrong. From the redstone booster failing to the booster failing to separate from the capsule, to the retro rockets not firing to the parachutes not opening.
These were truly heros.
Well, the entire flight was completely automated, so pretty much anyone could have sat in there and gone for the same ride.
@@generalyellor8188spam in a can huh
@@generalyellor8188 automated or no, scientists had theories about what might happen to a man in orbit. The human was necessary to gather information about that and also about what a human could perceive up there, how mobile and effective he’d be etc. It took balls to get on top of that rocket and leave the Earth.
@@generalyellor8188 no the Mercury astronauts experienced over 6g’s on ascent, which would cause the overwhelming majority of humans to black out, but the astronauts still had to be able to talk back to Earth and tell them what was going on
I saw the launch when I was a kid. My mom was watching for hours waiting for the lift off, but I was bored. After that first launch I became a big fan of the space race, and even watched the first moon walk. One day before the moon landing I launched my first model rocket at a local park with my dad. It was all very exciting. Even today I read about new developments in rocket engine technology, it has been a life long passion of mine.
Very nice to read. Thanks for sharing
I was obsessed with Estes model rockets as a kid.
When heroes really were heroes and were worthy of the title! As a kid in the 60's I was space mad, and had his poster on my wall alongside John Glenn and Uri Gagarin.
The word hero is objective. A hero to you is a villain to someone else. When this was happening there were thousands of Russians hoping for us to fail but this guy's name was attached to it's success. It's all perspective in the end.
@Francisco , keep looking up, Francisco.
@@bobsaget9675 yeah Russia bad America good like in movies
@@bobsaget9675 The cosmonauts were heroes too. Astronauts and cosmonauts were and still are hero explorers. Their contributions to science and medicine are vast
Yuri not Uri
I couldn't imagine being one of the first humans to be shot into space, the bravery of these guys is unbelievable
They had b@lls of steel, The Right Stuff!
Yes - they must surely have been prepared for the chance that they could die for the cause. I guess they received a wage & I’ll bet the pay for that flight may not be anything like that which a top soccer player gets for a game nowadays !
The man went to space and he still speaks with not a hint of fear in his voice, so confident.
Why isn't this an American Holiday? I've been celebrating Alan Bartlett Shepard jr, Freedom 7 day since 5/5/1961.
Well, we do have Cinco de Mayo ...
AllBobsAllTheTime My name Jose Jimenez...
It certainly should be.
I celebrate July 20th every year - the day in 1969 man walked on the moon. My own personal holiday.
@Thrasha Films the first launch of the Space Shuttle was April 12, 1981.
The best astronauts ever! Along with the Vostok's Russian program! Top of the top. Heroes!!!!!
10 years later (from 1961) Alan will step on moon...
And played golf in the moon.
Freaking legend.
Oh shit I forgot about that, Your right!
9G. That's why they used test pilots.
My father, Jim Curtin, was the chief radio operator on the Lake Champlain this day. He was the man who made the connection for the famous call between JFK and Shepherd. We have slides of the capsule.
big gratulation!
Wow! Fantastic
As a little side note, flight mission patches did not begin until Gemini V.
The Mercury 3 patch shown here was designed decades later, and is not an official patch.
I was only nine years old but sat with my parents holding our breath and praying that everything went well. We all cheered when they reported success and recovery. Seems like yesterday to be honest. Some of the best years.
One of the most daring thing ever made by human being.
When you see the videos of today's astronaut crews and the amount of risk involved at the various stages on their way to the ISS this makes you realize just how incredibly brave this human being was way back in 1961. They knew so little if anything about what they were about to embark on ...What an incredibly brave man...and to go up there on his own.... Unbelievable
+Jamie Shaw Absolutely amazing. The balls on Alan Shepard....
Newman Noggs 6u
Man..., I love (scared) of the way he’s being professional.., not thinking of self and fear.., but thinking.. remaining focused, doing the job required..,..... singing like a bird all the way.., knowing how important it is to get the info out n back to the scientists n engineers... re the conditions, pressures, Gs etc etc, because if it fails they need to know this stuff.. but save the next guy... he n they all knew it could fail n would likely do so in literally 1 heart beat...
And to this day your Navy/ Military expect nothing less from their people n teams..., crack on USA👍
Nothing shows insane ingenuity (or is it ingenious insanity?) of the human race more than those brave enough to be strapped to the top of a missile and shot into space.
I can't figure out how those rockets could get off the ground being weighed down by these guys' balls.
It's as exciting to watch now as it was when I was 11 years old. When at the Space Center I always take the "Then" tour, just to stand in the blockhouse and imagine what the launch must have looked like from there. The launch pad seems so small and insignificant, especially when compared to the more recent programs, but this is where it all got it's start. It's a humbling experience.
It was a great time to be a kid in America.
great comment gare - thanks
Nice, but I wish they wouldn't have cut the preceeding, "Permission to Wet Your Suit." I know it's not a professional caption, but a purely human one that actually created a whole plate of potential problems, and some ability to learn from this.
I have looked for that audio for years and never found it!
My dream is becoming a astronaut like Alan b Shepard and man of moon Neil Armstrong
My late father, Lt (jg) C. F. Holbrook (navigator) of the VP-5 crew 9, flew in search planes (P2-V's?), for both Shepard and Grissom. Very exciting memories.
Thanks for your memories Lake....I am not an American but I salute your Father...regards LM5
Is there audio of when Al needed to take a bathroom break?
Dear lord please don't let me *uck up
LMAO - good ole Al!
AstroGoji2000 the
I didn't quite copy that, say again please?
“I said:Everything is A-OK!” 😂😂😂
Back in the days when America was serious, admired, and could still do stuff. (Although Shepard WAS the guy who later hit a golf ball on the Moon.)
Great video, well done.
I remember watching this live during class in the 6th grade. A TV set was wheeled in, and we witnessed the event in glorious black and white.
Alan Shepard is from my home state and we are sure proud of him
I was lucky to meet Gordon Cooper and Scott Carpenter at book signings. A special group of men, for sure.
They had the Right Stuff
Perhaps I found the reason you couldn't syncronize the cockpit cam film: even NASA technicians were unable to do so. In NASA Postlaunch Report for MR-3 (www.rmastri.it/spacestuff/data/uploads/docs/43430277-Post-Launch-Report-for-MR-3.pdf) at page 92 (§ 10.6) you can read: "a review of the film from the pilot-observer camera shows a time discrepancy which was apparently due to a camera stoppage or a slow down at some time between .05 g and drogue deploy". So, in the last part, the frame rate isn't nominal (6 fps).
You've done a great job anyway. I really like this mission and this video.
Roberto Mastri Thanks for finding the article Roberto - it certainly was a challenge to try to synch the video/audio, but I was pretty pleased with the result. Not bad for an untrained guy with a £20 video editing suite!
He waited 4 hours of delay, he had to piss in his space suit and the AC dried it up so he was ok lol
Mercury Redstone - Orbiter Space Flight Simulator 2010
A guy who clearly knew that life is not about “self” or now.... but about who n what can come after you focus n build upon...👍🌹
Amazing I can watch a whole Spaceflight while eating dinner
Your videos are always excellent. This is a good one, and I really liked the Apollo 13 video you did too.
Thank you very much!
I remember the Mercury missions, and poring over the newspaper clippings I’d pasted in my ‘Space’ album. So I’m delighted that my friend Lauren Oliver is making a movie about a fictional Mercury astronaut. And no digital nonsense - it will be shot on 35mm b/w FILM. I recently met two of the talented and charming actors, and I’m privileged to have read the script - it’s splendid. “The last astronaut of an era has a secret that may cost him his dream - and his life.” Please Google: Kickstarter T-minus.
I couldn't find anything on Google or Kickstarter
@@subasurf The Kickstarter campaign didn't reach the goal, but I see there is an active Facebook page devoted to the film.
Great stuff! Good work. Today is the 60th anniversary of this historic flight. So important we remember the early trailblazers of the space program
I recently went to the Udvar Hazy space museum and they had the actual Freedom 7 mercury capsule!! It’s kinda cool seeing something that actually went into space and that has a lot of history behind it
They've moved it into the Air and Space in downtown now, along with Shepherd's suit.
Why was it crucial for Shepard to relay the instrument readings so frequently? Surely they had ample telemetry even then?
I was in the fourth grade. We brought radios to school. Shepard’s splashdown occurred during recess. A great cheer went up from all of us Munchkins! What excitement-the first American in space!
Wow do I remember this! I was in elementary school at the time, we watched the whole thing live in living black and white LOL!
+Daniel Folger (prophecyguy) great memory thanks for sharing!
I have the same memory of the space shuttles first launch lol. Only was in color. We gathered in a little assembly area
My 5th grade teacher at Jessie P. Miller Elementary, Bradenton, Florida, was at the Cape with ground control. She was flying her Cessna back across the state Sunday afternoon after Alan Shepard's historic flight. Her plane went down in a thunderstorm killing her. She treated me like she had a "Crush" on me like I was her boyfriend. Mary Montaldi was in her early 20's and It broke my heart when the principal told the class that morning she had died.
9 g's when coming down is a tough task. No wonder he could only respond with 'ok'
Thank you for this video.
My Dad had obtained rocket balloons with the MR 3 printed on them. Once inflated then released they would scream aloft.
"Okay.... Okay"
epic footage, anyone have a missile i can ride on? asking for a friend...
I'd much rather ride on a Falcon 9. The old MRBMs/ICBMs didn't care what was in the nose, they flew rough.
If you give the Russians tens of millions of dollars they might let you tag along on the Soyuz. Trust me, if I had the money, I would do it.
Thank you, Lunarmodule5! Keep up the great work you're doin'. I spread the glory of your channel wherever I go, dude! ;-)
Thanks Vait - 9 years late!
What were the retro rockets for? I know they were used to de-orbit mercury on the mercury-atlas missions but this was suborbital.
so, you are right, they werent actually needed for this flight, but they kept them on and fired them to test the system for the orbital flights that were yet to come
@@lunarmodule5 thanks for answering! Very interesting.
Interesting. It seems they removed the few seconds from the audio where Shepard and his vehicle pass MaxQ with around 11g force on Shepard.. In the original audio, you have several seconds where you clearly hear him under immense physical strain, while still managing to call out 'OK's. Unfortunate that it was removed.
They seemed surprised that cabin pressure was holding. OMG. He got so excited after re-entering the atmosphere that he dumped his peroxide. Sorry, couldn’t resist. Old astronaut joke. This brought back so many good memories.
No apologies required...you do a fantastic job creating these uploads!!
You still around Keno?
I watched this launch in my fourth-grade classroom. I can clearly remember Sputnik and the Gagarin flight, too. It was an exciting time.
you are a lucky man
15:03 - And this is why the first astronauts were all test pilots. 11G is enough to make a normal human being pass out, even if it's only a couple seconds.
Gus was still able to verbally call his G forces up to 10 on his flight. Grissom > Shepard
11 Gs is a lot but Mercury pilots actually experienced training up to 16gs. So while certainly a lot of Gs, it was significantly less than what they trained for.
I know this response is 7 years late but in case others are curious.
Truly bold, brave men!
Folks may not remember that this was not the first launch attempt of MR-3. I only played hooky twice in grade school; this post was my second. Thanks for the post.
You are welcome Paldin - and may we ask what the 1st time was??!
@@lunarmodule5 I believe it was on May 2nd the Redstone was fueled and Shepard was suited up but didn't get into the capsule: some tech glitches cropped up and then clouds rolled in and the flight was scrubbed for the day
Still with the ultimates in heroism
Those early bf goodrich silver space suits were stylin. I know that had to suck , going to the bathroom in it.
Mark Winfrey they wear diapers
ball and chain nope, not for this flight.
I was almost 4 months when Alan went up on my Aunt Vicky's birthday.
Very cool. I bet you could tell some really interesting stories!
This isn’t the full audio as he can’t have gone from reentry to 45k feet in 10 seconds 😂
Lunar module 5 you rock
dony345 I do? lol
I'm assuming when Al called 5G he was referring to his mobile phone signal
Happy 60th launch anniversary Freedom 7!
I like alan shepard
Alan Shepard you brave son of a bitch, how did they find anyone crazy enough to do this?
Nice job! I was 2 years old when this happened, but when I got a few years older I remember the Gemini missions and of course Apollo. I was 10 when Apollo 11 landed on the moon! Great video thanks!!
Same here.
This is outstanding. thanks for doing this---it's greatly appreciated.
Watching this is like playing Kerbal version 0.03 haha. Thanks for the great video!
"Hello CAPCOM, Freedom Seven, how do you read?"
The excitement in his voice is so inspiring!
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5:38 1 minute
what a liftoff thanks.
You are welcome
@@lunarmodule5 Alan Shepard is the 1st American astronaut.
Although the mission was short , still highly dangerous as for instance the retro rocket pack wouldnt have fired the capsule would not reenter with fatal consequences for the pilot.
Shepard and Grissom were on ballistic flight paths; they would have come down regardless. Firing the retros during these two flights was merely a test of the systems to see them operate as well as test how well the astronaut could maintain the proper attitude during retrofire. This was in preparation for eventual orbital flights. If you listen closely, Shepard was on manual control during retrofire and only went back to ASCS after he assumed reentry attitude.
Is there no audio of him doing the “Shepard prayer?”
Very cool, thanks for the upload!
Now, his daughter has been to space too.
So was "Shepards Prayer" an actual thing, or just a myth?
johnmccnj it was an actual thing he said.
On which time in this video?
@@RWKIN I don't think that he ever said it out loud, or if he did, the tapes never picked it up....or they edited it.
This is grand, historic stuff! I really enjoy your channel and thank you for your efforts.
welcome Chris - only just seen this!
Im so glad i grew up during the Space Race
One of the things that's really amazing about this, they usually really didn't film the launch from inside the capsule on any other launches, here you actually get to see Shepard