An Evening With Two Mercury Astronauts

The 2011 John H. Glenn lecture featured a moderated conversation with two of NASA's original Mercury astronauts: John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. Fifty years after the first human spaceflights, they shared stories about their selection as astronauts, the first human spaceflights, and their careers in and out of spaceflight. This lecture was presented in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin IMAX(r) Theater on June 23, 2011.

• Category

  Education

[bankcrisis]

Utterly brilliant, thankyou

[matabeleman]

awesome stuff

[mandaltby]

Wow what a great show, 2 legends talking so openly like they are in my living room, thanks so much for the upload .

[djjbzombies]

I do agree the price we pay to get astros to ISS and back is ridiculous. However the shuttle was old old tech and old hardware. We have the tech now to build a much better and much more efficient system for orbit.