I´ll be 70 the day after tomorrow, so I was nine years old during Gordo´s mission. I remember it like it was last month. Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 were the highlights in early manned space flight to me. Nothing that can possibly come in future will be able to equal what these men accomplished.
I was only 6 years old when this flight took place, but over the years the various astronauts participating in the Mercury program became well known through appearances , lectures, ect. My impression about this group was that astronaut Gorden Cooper was the most down to earth , honest and likable of the group.
Gordo - what a character. "Things are beginning to stack up a little around here" - or something similar , his comment as everything was turning to shit on his final orbits. Buzzing the crap out of Walt Williams before the flight . (Snake Shepard just itching to replace him) .Alas , he just couldn't find the commitment to cope with the demands of Apollo. Big character in The Right Stuff movie (Dennis Quaid) - "Who's the greatest pilot you ever saw?" .
@@pedrodiaz5540 In various interviews I've seen, Shepard seemed the least "likeable" and most ruthlessly "competitive" of the bunch, which kind of dovetails with the book and the film "The Right Stuff", which portrayed him as such. Shepard was a political animal and knew how to get what he wanted, whereas "Gordo" was not cut from that type of cloth, even though he was obviously an extremely talented man.
Love this, but my favorite thing Gordon Cooper did was to call into the Late Night with David Letterman show to congratulate Chris Elliot on his new running gag. He's hilarious!
Faith 7! That name really pissed NASA off!!! Because Gordo's stance was it would be a miracle if it lasted as long as they wanted! Gus Grissom named Gemini 3 the "unsinkable Molly Brown," and that was it. NASA cracked down and allowed no more names until there were two space craft starting with Apollo 9! Gumdrop and Spider!
17:45-18:12 Food in space has gone along 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 a 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 Sources: Food For Space 1985- ( th-cam.com/video/MIRDc-QUV0g/w-d-xo.html ) Space Food Systems- ( th-cam.com/video/-BbRF_aIoz4/w-d-xo.html ) ISS Update: Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 1)- ( th-cam.com/video/mRkI2vorhD8/w-d-xo.html ) ISS Update: Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 2)- ( th-cam.com/video/rbnipg_DsJk/w-d-xo.html ) Destination Tomorrow Space Food- ( th-cam.com/video/JqaZnP7OEtg/w-d-xo.html ) Space Makes Eating A Lot More Fun! Astronauts explain Food Prep ( th-cam.com/video/onm7P_iFueE/w-d-xo.html ) Dining On the Space Station with Scott Kelly- ( th-cam.com/video/PLmc6CJQwLM/w-d-xo.html )
17:45-18:12 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. Sources: From Apollo to Artemis- How Astronaut Food May Change When We Return To The Moon ( www.space.com/apollo-moon-astronaut-food-artemis-future.html ) Will the Astronauts Have Enough Water, Food And Oxygen- ( www.mars-one.com/faq/health-and-ethics/will-the-astronauts-have-enough-water-food-and-oxygen#:~:text=Food%20production%20on%20Mars&text=The%20storable%20food%20from%20Earth,of%20the%20diet%20on%20Mars. ) Destination Tomorrow Food In Space part 2 ( th-cam.com/video/iwKwuzIuttk/w-d-xo.html ) Mars Bunker: Space Food ( th-cam.com/video/NZj2ozisuI0/w-d-xo.html ) CBS This Morning Can Potatoes Really Grow On Mars- ( th-cam.com/video/-s6hbLGAK94/w-d-xo.html ) Growing Food on Mars: MARS: How to Survive On Mars ( th-cam.com/video/LMKl-KAg07U/w-d-xo.html )
This film certainly glazed over the difficult Cooper was late in his mission. It talked about how _one_ system had failed, when about a half-dozen had failed. That's NASA PR in the early '60s. In fact, had the PR wing of the agency not overruled administrators, Cooper would have been removed from the astronaut ranks before he ever went into space. Administrators and Deke Slayton both wanted Cooper out because of his dangerous and obnoxious misuse of fighter jets, but public image demanded that the 7 original continue to look like all that is good in us.
Shortly after this mission Vostok 5 and 6 were launched on another dual mission with Valeri Bykovsky in Vostok 5 and Valentina Tereskova in Vostok 6 to become the first woman in space. Bykovsky would spend more time alone of five days and Tereskova would spend more time than all the Mercury Astronauts combined. It would be another 19yrs before another woman would fly in space. (Svetlana Savitskaya) Source: Russian Space Web- Vostok 5 and 6 ( www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok5_delays.html ) and ( www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok6_flight.html )
What is the point of this nonsense? Yuri Gagarin had done all this already YEARS before. Well, perhaps not surprising, coming from a continent that never managed to invent the wheel...
@@stevefrake8922 The point is that a people, that is too stupid to invent the wheel can only imitate, but not innovate. USA will always be end of the line or as you would call it, a copycat.
My grandpa was on the Kearsarge CVS-33 that picked up Gordon. He took rare photos that have never been seen on the internet or by much people.
I´ll be 70 the day after tomorrow, so I was nine years old during Gordo´s mission. I remember it like it was last month. Mercury-Atlas 9, Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 were the highlights in early manned space flight to me. Nothing that can possibly come in future will be able to equal what these men accomplished.
It kinda sucks that this story is not that well know and that there are no movies about this mission.
This man is a legend.
I pray that Tom Hanks will not play Gordo!
I was only 6 years old when this flight took place, but over the years the various astronauts participating in the Mercury program became well known through appearances , lectures, ect. My impression about this group was that astronaut Gorden Cooper was the most down to earth , honest and likable of the group.
Of all of the 7 Mercury reentry, Faith 7 came closest to hitting the splash down zone. And this is done by hand.
As arrogant and egotistical as Gordon was, he really did have the "right stuff"!
Cooper a superb test pilot...and fine person...what an awesome flight!
I was 11 years old remember this well way to go Gordo God speed
Gordo - what a character. "Things are beginning to stack up a little around here" - or something similar , his comment as everything was turning to shit on his final orbits. Buzzing the crap out of Walt Williams before the flight . (Snake Shepard just itching to replace him) .Alas , he just couldn't find the commitment to cope with the demands of Apollo. Big character in The Right Stuff movie (Dennis Quaid) - "Who's the greatest pilot you ever saw?" .
Gordo should've had his chance to land on the moon.
Shepard finally took Gordo’s place in Apollo 14
@@pedrodiaz5540 In various interviews I've seen, Shepard seemed the least "likeable" and most ruthlessly "competitive" of the bunch, which kind of dovetails with the book and the film "The Right Stuff", which portrayed him as such. Shepard was a political animal and knew how to get what he wanted, whereas "Gordo" was not cut from that type of cloth, even though he was obviously an extremely talented man.
Love this, but my favorite thing Gordon Cooper did was to call into the Late Night with David Letterman show to congratulate Chris Elliot on his new running gag. He's hilarious!
th-cam.com/video/l-pVDb4MNs0/w-d-xo.html
What a bad ass Mr. Cooper is.
I remember!
Faith 7! That name really pissed NASA off!!! Because Gordo's stance was it would be a miracle if it lasted as long as they wanted!
Gus Grissom named Gemini 3 the "unsinkable Molly Brown," and that was it.
NASA cracked down and allowed no more names until there were two space craft starting with Apollo 9! Gumdrop and Spider!
Who's the best pilot you ever saw?
The sixth
American astronaut was
Leroy
Gordon
Cooper,
Jr.
17:45-18:12 Food in space has gone along 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 a 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
Sources: Food For Space 1985- ( th-cam.com/video/MIRDc-QUV0g/w-d-xo.html )
Space Food Systems- ( th-cam.com/video/-BbRF_aIoz4/w-d-xo.html )
ISS Update: Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 1)- ( th-cam.com/video/mRkI2vorhD8/w-d-xo.html )
ISS Update: Packing and Preparing Space Food (Part 2)- ( th-cam.com/video/rbnipg_DsJk/w-d-xo.html )
Destination Tomorrow Space Food- ( th-cam.com/video/JqaZnP7OEtg/w-d-xo.html )
Space Makes Eating A Lot More Fun! Astronauts explain Food Prep ( th-cam.com/video/onm7P_iFueE/w-d-xo.html )
Dining On the Space Station with Scott Kelly- ( th-cam.com/video/PLmc6CJQwLM/w-d-xo.html )
17:45-18:12 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.
Sources:
From Apollo to Artemis- How Astronaut Food May Change When We Return To The Moon ( www.space.com/apollo-moon-astronaut-food-artemis-future.html )
Will the Astronauts Have Enough Water, Food And Oxygen- ( www.mars-one.com/faq/health-and-ethics/will-the-astronauts-have-enough-water-food-and-oxygen#:~:text=Food%20production%20on%20Mars&text=The%20storable%20food%20from%20Earth,of%20the%20diet%20on%20Mars. )
Destination Tomorrow Food In Space part 2 ( th-cam.com/video/iwKwuzIuttk/w-d-xo.html )
Mars Bunker: Space Food ( th-cam.com/video/NZj2ozisuI0/w-d-xo.html )
CBS This Morning Can Potatoes Really Grow On Mars- ( th-cam.com/video/-s6hbLGAK94/w-d-xo.html )
Growing Food on Mars: MARS: How to Survive On Mars ( th-cam.com/video/LMKl-KAg07U/w-d-xo.html )
This film certainly glazed over the difficult Cooper was late in his mission. It talked about how _one_ system had failed, when about a half-dozen had failed. That's NASA PR in the early '60s.
In fact, had the PR wing of the agency not overruled administrators, Cooper would have been removed from the astronaut ranks before he ever went into space.
Administrators and Deke Slayton both wanted Cooper out because of his dangerous and obnoxious misuse of fighter jets, but public image demanded that the 7 original continue to look like all that is good in us.
Shortly after this mission Vostok 5 and 6 were launched on another dual mission with Valeri Bykovsky in Vostok 5 and Valentina Tereskova in Vostok 6 to become the first woman in space. Bykovsky would spend more time alone of five days and Tereskova would spend more time than all the Mercury Astronauts combined. It would be another 19yrs before another woman would fly in space. (Svetlana Savitskaya)
Source: Russian Space Web- Vostok 5 and 6 ( www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok5_delays.html ) and ( www.russianspaceweb.com/vostok6_flight.html )
If I will ever be forced to go to space, I insist on flying Roscosmos.
There is so much propaganda in these early films the actual mission is lost in the bluster.
What is the point of this nonsense?
Yuri Gagarin had done all this already YEARS before.
Well, perhaps not surprising, coming from a continent that never managed to invent the wheel...
"YEARS before" 🙄 Two years before. What's your point?
@@stevefrake8922 - I think the point is obvious.
@@stevefrake8922 The point is that a people, that is too stupid to invent the wheel can only imitate, but not innovate.
USA will always be end of the line or as you would call it, a copycat.
@@thekaiser4333 Thanks comrade.
@@stevefrake8922 - "Your Majesty" is the proper address.