Mercury-Atlas 9 - Historical Footage, Full Mission, Narration, HD, Gordon Cooper - Faith 7
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- Documentary about the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, entirely based on historical narration, mission audio and footage. The full mission is covered, showing crew, training, launch, beacon release, slow scan tv tests, orbit reentry and splashdown.
Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major. This mission marks the last time an American was launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Crew and Training
04:20 Mission Objectives
07:12 Launch Preparations
10:20 Mercury-Atlas 9 Launch
15:14 Orbit 1
16:54 Orbit 2
17:45 Orbit 3
18:39 Orbit 4 to 5
20:59 Orbit 6 to 8
22:38 Orbit 9 to 14
24:15 Orbit 15
24:55 Orbit 16 to 18
25:42 Orbit 19 to 21
28:00 Orbit 22
28:30 Reentry and Recovery
31:26 Cooper Postflight Remarks
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The footage was AI upscaled (Topaz AI) on some segments, besides the usual color correction. Ambient audio was recreated based on historical elements. Sequences are shown in proper mission context as much as possible.
Historical narration (from mission commentary, NASA documentaries and progress reports, and TV and radio broadcasts sourced from LM5 are used in an attempt to capture the feeling of the times. Language and attitudes should be seen in that context.
Research, cleanup, editing, and processing by Retro Space HD.
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A moment please to remember another space pioneer, Major General William A Anders.
R.I.P. Sir.
Cannot think of Cooper without remembering the movie the Right Stuff.
Manually controlled reentry -- a rare experience in space flight.
He went higher and faster than anyone had ever been at the time, he was also the last American to go to space alone! God speed Gordo !
“Who was the best pilot you ever saw?” Gordo Cooper
Gordo, Gus & Wally the best of the original 7, true possessors of the right stuff .
Gordo,...❤Watched it Live.....damn I'm Old....☹
So many of the great ones of spaceflight early on seen here. It is scary to see now how space flight has become so routine.
Who came here after seeing Boeing Starliner CFT-1 with Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams liftoff and dock with the International Space Station and the forth flight of the SpaceX Starship with a successful splash down of both the booster and the starship?
I remember watching this on tv. I was nine.
Me too! I was eight! Wasn't it great to grow up with the space program? Now I just hope we can live long enough to see another manned lunar landing...
Ditto. Except I remember during Mercury they were not able to track the vehicle this steadily with the cameras that were broadcasting on TV. The craft was dancing all over the screen within a few seconds of lift off. This shot must have been done with a tracking camera the networks didn't have access to.
20:41 Continued From Part 1 about Space Food posted on February 11th, 2021.The biggest challenge for a trip to Mars will be food. The reason is that they will not have the luxury of finding their own food like what earlier explorers did. Space food on a lunar base with the Artemis program and missions to Mars will play a huge role because not only will it have to be shelf stable for five years or more. The food will have to be grown on a lunar base or en route to or on the surface of Mars because their's not going to be resupply vehicles going to come and resupply the mission. The food that will be eaten on route to Mars will be no different from the ISS, but it will have to be supplemented by plants like tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, and other plants. This will not only give astronauts a wider selection of food, but will provide a psychological boost because the astronauts will not only have the ability to process the food from one into quite a few different types of food, but the plants (like we saw in the film "The Martian") can remove the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, recycle water and use the waste products as plant food.
For a trip to Mars, inventory management is vital because there's no way that a resupply vehicle can come to your base on Mars and resupply your crew. The crew will have to keep track of what food they have, how much they have eaten, and how much food is left, and that is for the trip to and from Mars. On Mars, astronauts will have to grow their own food and can use the Martian soil to plant the food. For a trip to Mars, radiation from both the sun and cosmic radiation will have to be taken into consideration. The reason is that radiation might change the composition or the taste of the food and might give it rancidity or give the food an off-taste and since there's no protection from radiation from the Martian atmosphere there must be a a way to protect the plants from radiation. Food of the future will have to not only have a shelf life of five years or more, but will have to be acceptable for the astronauts, but have enough nutrients to ensure that the astronauts can live and work on a lunar base and on Mars.
@4:34, Beats having the Older Temp Sensor shoved up the Backside, like earlier Astronauts had to
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Retro Space HD, it's with great sadness that I must inform you that Astronaut William Anders passed away today.
Wow, Great footage, never seen it before. Thanks!
I once got my hands on Cooper's Mercury QRH book. There wasn't much in it if things went south 😮
My grandfather machined parts on the Atlas rocket. He grew up riding to town in a horse drawn wagon. Think about the disparity between when he was born and how quickly technology advanced.
20:41 Food in space has gone a long way since the infamous toothpaste tubes and bite-sized cubes on the early flights. Now onboard the International Space Station, there is over 200 food and beverage items like shrimp cocktail, barbecue beef, spaghetti with meat sauce, coffee, grape drink. Food in microgravity, must pass strict shelf life standards and microbial count must be kept to a minimum. At the NASA Space Food Laboratory at JSC, Cologue, Germany and Star City, Russia astronauts and cosmonauts taste the food and decide and plan their own menu. In space there's a fluid shift that occurs that gives everyone the impression that they have a cold and it changes what food they like for example, if someone likes a certain food on earth and when they get up in space they don't like it or they don't like certain food on earth and when they get up in space they can't get enough of it. Since the Shuttle-Mir Program, astronauts are paying more attention to their food selection. The reason is that on long duration flights of six months or longer food is more important for an astronaut or cosmonaut. Food pays a huge role not only in the physical well-being of an astronaut, but it is a huge psychological boost and improves their well-being because you can't just go to the nearest store in space for something, you either have it or you don't.
There's several ways that food are packaged like some are your meats like steak, turkey, chicken are packaged in pouches like you would find in a MRE (Meals Ready To Eat). Rehydratables and beverage items, used to be packaged in hard plastic containers. Starting on STS-44 they are packaged in polyethylene and foil pouches because the packaging takes up less space and is easier to compact than the earlier packaging used in the early days of the shuttle. Salt and Pepper are in liquid form because the salt and pepper would get in a astronauts eyes and get into the electronics equipment and cause problems. Whenever the food quality standard is either below standard or unavailable the food is freeze-dried. Freeze-drying reduces the water count and ensures that quality is up to food safety standards for years. Fresh food is loaded in the launch vehicle within 24hrs of launch. Since STS-61B in November 1985, the tortilla has replaced bread as the jack off all trades for food. Food is delivered by Progress spacecraft, Japanese HTV, SpaceX Dragon 2, and Cygnus Spacecraft and is either docked or berthed at the International Space Station. End of Part 1 posted on February 11th, 2021
I had to smile when they showed the blood pressure cuff with the hooks and eyelets on it. Velcro hadn't been invented yet.
there was loads of velcro used in the space program. The fire aboard the Apollo that killed the crew involved a lot of burning velcro.
@@jimparker7778 not at that point, is the point. Apollo astronauts noted that the Velcro used everywhere did not work at all where it needed to, and yet worked too well where it didn’t need to. Different suppliers or material construction, it took a while before they got the “recipe” down correctly.
Charlie Duke or somebody said they could pick up the entire rover off the moon before it would let go on some strap or whatever.
It was patented in 1955 and began in mass production before the 60s.
I stand corrected, sir.
@@KRW628 But it's not to say they used it for that purpose at that time. I suppose in that short window between production and Mercury flights, as you pointed out, the cuff looked primitive.
Le plus Grand des Pilotes
Gordo 😁
He fell asleep shortly before Faith 7 takeoff.
given the circumstances, that is ever so slightly Cool 😮
I wish Gordo could have flown on Apollo.
Is it true that Gordon reported seeing another object in orbit which he attempted to photograph or is this mere UFO Enthusiast bs ?
These guys would have been considered as first year plebes at Starfleet Academy
Gordo shoulda walked on the moon.
lmfao, those cartoons man....
narration by Ronald Reagan
Coop seemed like such a great standup guy - he seemed naive almost to a fault in later decades by getting involved in real sketchy business scams.
Not unusual for astronauts! When we was kids at the time, everybody assumed that astronauts were about the highest paid people in the world, this turns out to be untrue obvs! Cooper also got into trouble for dangerous aircraft flying, "poor discipline" and not getting with the pr image programme. Also for getting involved in motor racing (against orders.) His private life was "interesting." Good lad!
@@robertknight5429 No. The point here was it was absolutely unusual for these astronauts. He was a notable outlier, which is why I brought it up.
having watched the first flight with 2 blokes last week , re the sheer uncertainty & potential danger or risks (in spite of the incredible preparation & training ),responsibility & utter nerves of steel , I found myself wondering how much money these chaps were actually paid ( sure there’s people whom would pay for the experience but..) for the flight & if so would it equate to anything near what a soccer player in the English Premier League gets for a match nowadays !