Real legendary men...called astronauts for the first time in the history of mankind along with the cosmonaut Gagarin riding a rocket into the unknown of the limitless space! The true understatement of being a Hero! True pioneers...
A lot of people dont remember. Shepard didn't actually orbit (John Glenn did). He was the 1st American to go up. He basically just went up and came back down.
from what I can remember, he pissed himself before launch because he was in the capsule for some time because of delay. This delay is also why he called out 'lets light this candle' Cant confirm this is true, but apparently the delay was so long because nobody at the ground wanted the responsibility to actually call a go.
The launch was delayed for a few hours. So he was in the capsule for far longer than expected. Eventually, he had to pee so he asked permission (to make sure it was safe) and they gave him the go-ahead. So yes, he did.
yes its reported they actually had to shut the suit down completely, let him urinate in his suit (because no one thought that would be an issue funny enough), check all of the electrical systems, then reboot the suits systems and he in fact, during this video, is wet in is own urine.
La mission mercury-redstone 3 fue la mission que puso en el espacio al primer estadunidense en el espacio alan shepard. Quien mas adelante se combirtio en el quinto hombre en pisar la luna
Note that Alan is ripping through 5 g's -- which even Apollo crews topped out at. No wonder NASA put the boys through the hoops. Atlas was even MORE intense.
Redstone was worse. Because they weren't able to extend their lateral velocity into orbit, the capsule basically plummeted right back down. Shepard was pushing TWELVE Gs during re-entry.
CusterFlux This Redstone rocket did put in orbit the 1st satellite of the U.S.A. though. Of course the Mercury capsule was 12 times heavier than that 1st ever satellite , and the Redstone could not boost the capsule into orbit. But it was a reliable machine. On the contrary, the Atlas was a risky rocket to fly with...
It launched Australia's [my country] first satellite, however it was not a stock Redstone. the one used to send the satellite into orbit used two upper stages. Currently there is not, and never has been, a single stage to orbit launch vehicle. The delta-velocity needed for that single stage would be close to, or in excess of, 9,000 meters per second. Which is an infeasible situation due to the self defeating nature of current propulsion technology.
SairousClaou The Atlas was still somewhat reliable in that it only needed to be topped off with its cryogenic fuel+oxidizer and as long as nothing failed (which by pure bad luck occurred often in reality) it would (and did from 1980 until Atlas III used hard tanks and not balloon tanks) reliably launch payloads into orbit. My point: the booster itself was not unreliable but hampered by a lot of small problems which proved its fragility to errors.
Gagarin flew in an Intercontinental ballistic missile. Shepard flew in a short range ballistic missile. Little wonder the USSR scrabled to develop ICBMs first - US had bases almost at USSRs borders from which it could hit all important urban centers of the USSR with SRBMs MRBMs or even fast nuclear armed bombers. USSR's only deterrence delivery option was to develop an ICBM as it had no bases close enough to the USA proper to hit almost any of its important urban centers with anything that had less than intercontinental range. They also developed intercontinental bombers (Tu-95) but those were slow and vulnerable to interception.
The US and USSR both pursued ramping up production of intercontinental ballistic missiles after the Cuban Missile Crisis because they could no longer put intermediate range ballistic missiles right on each other's borders through their allies, Turkey and Cuba respectively.
I found this this morning and watched sixty years to the day of Alan Shepard's ride into space. Marvelous.
Real legendary men...called astronauts for the first time in the history of mankind along
with the cosmonaut Gagarin riding a rocket into the unknown of the limitless space!
The true understatement of being a Hero! True pioneers...
They wouldn't do it now, Health & Safety wouldn't let them near that thing.
A real character. The right stuff indeed!
I was in 1st grade and we watched this launch from the school cafeteria. I remember it like it was yesterday.
thing I can't get over was how dead-on Scott Glenn did Shepard's accent in The Right Stuff...
They even look alike.
Alan looks like Scott glens stunt double.
I suppose in a way, he was. lol
Saw Mercury Rocket in Concord. It is smaller than you would think.
it is Jose Jimenez 🙂The first american astronaut! Thanks mister Schepard!
Reading The Right Stuff brought me here.
Same here
Watching The Right Stuff brought me here
thanks for sharing this, Mr. Travis.
A lot of people dont remember. Shepard didn't actually orbit (John Glenn did). He was the 1st American to go up. He basically just went up and came back down.
I knew that, I watched it on tv
The X-15 pilots did pretty much the same, but it wasn't broadcast live on TV. They were our orginal astronauts.
I remember watching this in elementary school. There were many holds before the launch, so it took up a good deal of the day.
Is it true Shepard pissed himself before launch?
from what I can remember, he pissed himself before launch because he was in the capsule for some time because of delay.
This delay is also why he called out 'lets light this candle'
Cant confirm this is true, but apparently the delay was so long because nobody at the ground wanted the responsibility to actually call a go.
The launch was delayed for a few hours. So he was in the capsule for far longer than expected. Eventually, he had to pee so he asked permission (to make sure it was safe) and they gave him the go-ahead. So yes, he did.
yes its reported they actually had to shut the suit down completely, let him urinate in his suit (because no one thought that would be an issue funny enough), check all of the electrical systems, then reboot the suits systems and he in fact, during this video, is wet in is own urine.
100/10
not a typo
This is the same reason you don’t see flames in the lunar module ascent vehicle .
La mission mercury-redstone 3 fue la mission que puso en el espacio al primer estadunidense en el espacio alan shepard. Quien mas adelante se combirtio en el quinto hombre en pisar la luna
Yup, Jayne is right. It was only a 20 minute flight! And he didn't have windows.
@Ho Lam YIU I would have been sick!
Note that Alan is ripping through 5 g's -- which even Apollo crews topped out at.
No wonder NASA put the boys through the hoops.
Atlas was even MORE intense.
Redstone was worse. Because they weren't able to extend their lateral velocity into orbit, the capsule basically plummeted right back down. Shepard was pushing TWELVE Gs during re-entry.
The Redstone looks like a glorified V2 - anybody know if that's pretty much what it is?
+CusterFlux Yeah it is. It was a redesign of the V-2 that Von Braun did for the US Airforce.
CusterFlux This Redstone rocket did put in orbit the 1st satellite of the U.S.A. though. Of course the Mercury capsule was 12 times heavier than that 1st ever satellite , and the Redstone could not boost the capsule into orbit. But it was a reliable machine.
On the contrary, the Atlas was a risky rocket to fly with...
It launched Australia's [my country] first satellite, however it was not a stock Redstone. the one used to send the satellite into orbit used two upper stages. Currently there is not, and never has been, a single stage to orbit launch vehicle. The delta-velocity needed for that single stage would be close to, or in excess of, 9,000 meters per second. Which is an infeasible situation due to the self defeating nature of current propulsion technology.
Ya !
SairousClaou
The Atlas was still somewhat reliable in that it only needed to be topped off with its cryogenic fuel+oxidizer and as long as nothing failed (which by pure bad luck occurred often in reality) it would (and did from 1980 until Atlas III used hard tanks and not balloon tanks) reliably launch payloads into orbit. My point: the booster itself was not unreliable but hampered by a lot of small problems which proved its fragility to errors.
I know why it didn’t fly longer. The weight of Alan’s balls for sure was a factor.
Awesome 👍🚀
How well I remember ...
a las 0:41 empieza la cuenta regresiva del despegue del cohete
Gagarin flew in an Intercontinental ballistic missile. Shepard flew in a short range ballistic missile. Little wonder the USSR scrabled to develop ICBMs first - US had bases almost at USSRs borders from which it could hit all important urban centers of the USSR with SRBMs MRBMs or even fast nuclear armed bombers. USSR's only deterrence delivery option was to develop an ICBM as it had no bases close enough to the USA proper to hit almost any of its important urban centers with anything that had less than intercontinental range. They also developed intercontinental bombers (Tu-95) but those were slow and vulnerable to interception.
Thx that's is really interesting. Times back then ppl had to be on edge. Especially Hitler the damn death angel trying to conquer the world.
The US and USSR both pursued ramping up production of intercontinental ballistic missiles after the Cuban Missile Crisis because they could no longer put intermediate range ballistic missiles right on each other's borders through their allies, Turkey and Cuba respectively.
They sure tried, but Kennedy told them to stay out of the entire Western hemisphere lol
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Cool!
Don't fuck up, Shepard
La capsula l’aveva disegnata il bimbo terribile ?
Aiuto000 ! Le scieeee chimicheeee !!!
Mister Golf 14
"Al's gotta go"
11gs of deceleration....
Im here after hidden figures tbh, end racism.
Did Alan Shepard have gender confusion, offend easily, or have a safe space with crayons and coloring books?
The hell are you going on about?
No! He was a full grown, adult, all American Male!
They all were!
Ok thats disrespectful
@@itsfrediguess7844 To who?
@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 to shepard. To compare him to stereotypes of the people of today
Terrible camera operator.
Dude, this is 1962! The whole phenomenon of manned space flight & coverage thereof was brand new & just ... getting off the ground.
@@OldMtnGeezer you’re right. I didn’t think about that