aurora 7

fireball xl5 style video salute to scott carpenter and the flight of aurora 7

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• scott
• carpenter
• aurora
• seven
• mercury
• atlas
• ekim
• nworb
• astronaut
• space
• animation

[rickl3000]

Wow! Where did you get that audio from?

I was four years old, so I don't have any direct memory of that flight. But MA-7 has always been my favorite Mercury mission. Carpenter did seem to have had a bit of a lackadaisical attitude, but his capsule really did have some serious glitches in the fuel system.

It was the only American flight where an astronaut had to use his survival training after landing, when he got out of the capsule and into his life raft before the recovery team arrived.

[vydeoynkhorne]

@rickl3000 I got the audio from a small 33rpm record. Nat'l Geographic had one like it for John Glenn, but I don't know where the Carpenter record came from - it was a yard sale type thing.

[TracyAndersonFoxhunt]

Carpenter looks like a puppet.... is he related to Michael Jackson?

[vydeoynkhorne]

@TracyAndersonFoxhunt

the puppet Carpenter and Jackson had the same "plastic" surgeon

[PHILLYDEMOCRAT]

this is fake looks like cartoon

[tvdays]

I have the same record

[whotoinfinity]

Far Out! I grew up with this stuff.... Great Job.

[Australian123Gamer]

never knew about aoura 7

[notredamehesamighty]

Kraft had nothing good to say about Carpenter in his book and was, in my opinion, unecessarily harsh on Carpenter's performance. He said he made "sure Carpenter never flew again". Why, then did he continue to stay with the program for several years before moving on to his underwater adventures? Wolfe is a little more charitable in "The Right Stuff". Seems to me M. Scott Carpenter, one of only two original Mercury astronauts still alive is a genuine American hero.

[Troylito]

You have to keep in mind the political atmosphere all of the management had to work within. This was no longer a rouge test pilot out at Edwards doing 'hotdog' stuff. All of the NASA management understood that an astronaut death in a 15 minute sub orbital flight would all but kill the space program and any chance NASA had at longer term plans, which were immensely more ambitious than just the Moon. Carpenter was reckless and cavalier with both his actions and attitude. He could've ended it all.