"Freedom 7" NASA Documentary about the US Space Program & Astronaut Alan Shepard

NASA documentary about the early space programs of the United States, focusing on the sub orbital manned flight of Alan Shepard aboard the Mercury capsule "Freedom 7", launched by a Redstone rocket.

Background information about this space flight from http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/mr-3/mr-3.htm
The main scientific objective of project Mercury was to determine man's capabilities in a space environment and in those environments to which he will be subject upon going into and returning from space. A few of the basic flight problems included: The development of an automatic escape system, vehicle control during insertion, behavior of space systems, evaluation of pilots capabilities in space, in flight monitoring, retrofire and reentry maneuvers and landing and recovery.

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[firmingitup]

I have the NASA 5 DVD set that this is on. The very beginning of this always reminds me of "The Jetsons".

[LOPEZdJUNGLIST]

BOYAKA

[sparkybluefox]

Awesome video! Very well done!

SBF

[julianrns]

Spectacular video!. Great technical contents and a very nice image quality. Thank you for upload it