Mercury Redstone-3 In-Cabin Cameras
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- Mercury Redstone 3 In-Cabin Cameras
May 5th 1961 - Compilation of the two cameras in the Mercury Redstone 3 cabin, one facing the control panel, the other pointed at Alan Shepard.
I do not claim that these are perfectly synched, especially the second astronaut camera footage.
I have added in Orbiter and real footage as appropriate.
All camera footage and launch film and audio courtesy NASA.
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Too think, he did this after wetting his spacesuit!
Yes, this is so. He was sitting - correction _lying_ - in a puddle of pee!
@@rogerkearns8094 Well it more absorbed throughout his suits insulation... must have stunk later!
But he dried out quickly. They were pushing 100% dry oxygen through his suit, so that gathered the water out quickly. Now as for the smell...?????🤢🤢🤢🤣🤣😂😂
@@knobdikker I'd still feel clammy, sticky, itchy and dirty.
@@TheGroundedAviator in a 0% relative humidity environment?
Outstanding! I NEVER knew (or ever have seen) they had a second camera pointer to the control panels!
Your synchronization to the voice, footage and simulations is just incredible!
Thanks John
Thanks! Finally, I see "The clock" that Shepard said "has started..." at the moment of liftoff. Well done.
Where is it?
@@jvolstad The clock looks to me to be the large square black instrument in the center of the control panel. Shepard is resting his right hand on the clock at launch and you can see the second hand begin to spin at liftoff.
Shepard.…” G build up… 3….6…..9….okay!..okay!…okay!…okay” That was intense! You could hear the strain in his voice as the Gs got higher. Heroic from Alan Shepard. This is a great piece of work from you Simon. Thanks from your friends in Scotland. 🏴🚀
Yup, the literal strain, he was doing that zero-g holding-breath and straining his abdominal muscles. Needed to let out a minimal bit of breath to speak.
As always William, thank you for your kind words
Loved the video. I used to eat my lunch in an old Mercury capsule mockup that sat in the back of the shop when I worked at MAC. Didn't have an instrument panel though.
wow!
The small steps that made a giant leap possible! Thanks LM5
Never seen this footage before, outsanding work!
That sigh from Alan Shepard at the end, when the ship informs him they can't get a hold of CAPCOM, is absolutely priceless!
You never cease to amaze us with your historic spaceflight presentations. Attaboy!
Superb work. Never knew this footage even existed. As awe inspiring now as it was then. Alan was surely made of the right stuff.
I can't imagine the feeling of relief when the main chute deploys 12:12
I think the relief he felt when they finally let him piss in his suit was on a par . :-)
This is really remarkably well put together. Thank you!!!!!
I was 9 years old. This put such a thrill and desire to reach out and explore that I still experience
8:08 "Retro jettison is confirmed" The retro pack separated at this point but Shephard does not see a light to confirm separation but says he saw the straps floating away and heard a noise. But the video doesn't show separation until he switches to override. The override didn't release the pack it simply turned the light in the cabin green. Excellent video overall!
Yeah I missed that bit by about 10 secs!
@@lunarmodule5 BTW, I love all this content you put out! I could watch the PDI to touchdown videos all day long!
@@jasonbohrmann7058 thanks Jason
This is truly magnificent.
I love this one, LM5. It's hard to imagine the excitement over such a short flight. Fair winds, Al Shepard
Glad you liked it mate..hope all's well
@@lunarmodule5 tress.pass
I have the GI Joe / Action Man Mercury capsule on a shelf here. It's amazing that the control panel sticker details & labelling exactly matches the real thing. NASA gave Hasbro a lot of assistance in making the 1:6 scale model, including a whole spare space suit to copy, back in 1966.
This is one month before I graduated from Selma HS, the real "Spam in a can". Thank you!
I thought he just went up and came down but he had to manually control the craft in orbit testing the manual pitch, yaw and roll retros. And that re-entry! Over 9 G's!! That's black out zone to many pilots, I bet all were worried that they could be listening to his last words. Great footage, great mission that another stone on the pathway to the moon. 👍 Great to see so much more than the 'snippets' on TV documentaries. Thanks Simon!
At least his 9g was "eyeballs-in!" :)
@@hubbsllc Not true... on reentry its "eyeballs-out", and he surpassed 9 and actually hit around 12gs!
"The tests conducted by Ballinger at Wright-Patterson and the interservice experiments with the chimpanzees on the Navy centrifuge featured frontward (eyeballs-in) application of g loads during the launch profile, backward application (eyeballs-out) during the reentry simulation, and the use of rather elaborate restraint straps and basic aircraft bucket seats as a support system."
@@kidkique Reentry was blunt-end-first and every drawing, photo, film, and actual Mercury capsule I've seen had the astronaut's back to the heatshield which is on the blunt end so...eyeballs-in (i.e., toward the back of the head).
@@hubbsllc u could be right - I did not consider which direction the astronaut was sitting in relation to the heatshield
He didn't orbit the earth, that was John Glenn. He went up but didn't come exactly straight down, the ship described an arc before it reentered
I remember watching the launch and recovery in my 5th grade classroom on a TV brought to class by our teacher, Mrs. Bell. It was something else! Unbelievable.
Excellent video! Never saw the one facing the control panel before.
This is absolutely fantastic!
Thank you! I had no idea this video existed or was on TH-cam. Great to watch and remember.
That was a beautiful trip! Love the intro and outro as usual!
Thanks Hicham
Well done as usual!! This is amazing work! I kept wanting to zoom the camera out with my finger 🤣
I was gonna call BS on this cause I remember watching this at the time and seeing grainy b/w footage. Then I remember it was back in 1961 and I watched it on a crappy b/w tv. Thanks for sharing this awesome footage!
To quote the great philosopher Spicoli, “awesome! Totally awesome!”
Well done! Absolutely amazing!
Great work! Really enjoyed it!
Thanks Retro! What new stuff do you have?
LM5 Always a great job!
Thanks!
Nice! I have no idea where you get this footage from (especially given a lot of the rare footage of Mercury and Gemini - which should be public domain - on here is covered in watermarks), but this is great! Thanks! I believe this was the only Mercury flight with a second camera pointed at the instruments and they switched to a convex mirror on the astronaut’s chest for later flights and read instruments in the mirror instead to save weight.
Great Video, never seen this before!
Outstanding, Simon! (as usual)
Many thanks!
That is one smooth rocket. There is absolutely nothing shaking in that video..
That's because the camera would have been hard-mounted to the craft itself and matching the movement and vibrations of the ship with every bump that you can hear Shepard even talking about.
@@generalyellor8188 True but you will always get items like straps moving around in most aircraft whereas there was very little if any movement here until zero G.
Nice one man - us Space Race geeks love your stuff !
Absolutely outstanding.!!
If Alan was alive, he’d probably have tears of joy.
I love the fact, that Charley Duke watches TH-cam videos of his moonwalk and writes comments.
@@goethe528 never seen a comment of his yet. For the 50th anniversary of 16, why not invite him to the live premiere?
Here: th-cam.com/video/yqdU6EQzclc/w-d-xo.html he even mentions the very video in a talk: th-cam.com/video/U7jWk0u4K-E/w-d-xo.html
and tears of sadness that Man had mostly never traveled much further from Earth than he did that day, 60 years ago
Outstanding. Period. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Much more to come!
Another amazing video. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Perfect! Thank you LM5! ;-)
As always, you are most welcome
What a cool way to preserve history!
Fantastic work!
Thank you! Cheers!
This is even better than A-OK, LM5! The key thing that was lacking in NASA PR was the type of authenticity that would allow millions of enthusiasts along on the ride in some way. We were underestimated in our abilities to understand what was happening. The videos you make could be combined with Mission Reports, transcripts, Flight Data File documents and instrument panel diagrams to make a time capsule for each mission that will stand as a historical record or time capsule, even 500 years from now.
Thanks for the kind words Amy
Outstanding!, thankyou for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm in the middle of reading Moon Shot by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. Seeing this video was perfect timing! (specifically Chapter 9 of the book).
was he first man to say Ok in outer space ?
Thank you, LM5!!!!!
Welcome!
Great presentation, very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nostalgic! I remember those audio transmissions as a kid. But I never saw the film footage way back then.
Scary watching that altimeter on re entry 😳
Very nicely done. 👍👍
Fantastic!
Many thanks!
This is what made me become an engineer. I saw Neil walk on the moon in July 1969 at the ripe old age of 8.
I was a little over a month old when this flight happened.
Wow. Wonderful stuff. Thanks 😘
You're welcome 😊
Thank you, nice work!
Glad you liked it!
Unbelievable I have never ever seen this footage wow
That is amazing wonderful great video. I enjoyed this video. Love space exploration. 👏👍🤗😁😀🙂☺️⭐🌟💘💔
Glad you enjoyed it
I assume the big round dial on the left is the altimeter? Watch it drop rapidly when he reenters and he’s calling out the G forces. Holy Pete!
Great job on this video!
Thank you!
Stunning! 👌
WOW!! Thank you!
Welcome!
Impressive work!
Thanks a lot!
Fantastic, thankyou!💥🚀
Welcome
10:00 - nine Gs sounds intense.
This. Is. Amazing!
There is a Mercury capsule at the Boeing Flight Museum in Seattle and the word capsule is exactly correct. It is tiny. I have no idea how they climbed in and out with those huge pressure suits. I think I'd be scared of getting stuck just to climb in it on display. I was a total space geek and watched everyone of the Mercury though Apollo missions. It was a golden era then they pulled the plug. Turned out it was more of a cold war propaganda mission then scientific. The shuttle never had the excitement associated with it. Those were the days my friend. We thought they'd never end.
Awesome! Great job!
Thanks!
Nowhere did you think to put the date for this amazing pioneering flight. For those looking, it was May 5, 1961! Awesome video nonetheless.
Yeah my bad....In my haste I forgot...done now
That was great.. thanks much
Glad you enjoyed it!
where was the two pieces of video found
Al couldn't remove a filter so his view of earth through the periscope was only black and white. Shortly after this flight he experienced vertigo and was grounded. Thankfully, many years later Al was able to get a successful operation to fix his vertigo. Al then knocked all the Apollo astronauts out of their rotation to get to the moon in a hurry. No way was he going to miss out going to the moon!
Only man to hit a golf ball on the moon!
Did anyone else notice the stray washer float down near the altimeter at 9:13 ? :)
@2:22 - Cabin pressure is 14psi (normal atmospheric) and @2:56 it is 8psi? Major air leak detected.
Man, where do you find this stuff? I'd love to see if this kind of footage exists for friendship 7!
That was Awesome!
Glad u liked it Glenn
That’s Awesome!!!
I’m afraid your discord link has expired. Would you mind providing an updated one?
discord.gg/PscYHeJk
@lunarmodule5 What altitude did the tower and first stage of the Mercury Redstone rocket jettison at and how did Freedom 7 get propelled further into space when there was no propulsion?
It didn’t, there was only two stages, the main one that propelled the capsule into space and then the second one was only fitted with a retro booster to send him back to earth. It was very basic compared to Vostok one that sent Gagarin into space, he managed to complete whole orbits
It's called momentum...he was on a ballistic trajectory, like a canon ball
Thanks. What altitude did he jettison from the rest of the rocket at?
@@DarkFalconAnimations The altimeter dial is the circular dial on the far left scaled in increments of 10,000 ft per numbered tick. At 4:10 he reached 100k on the dial and pinned the dial until his descent. So by the video, the tower and booster separated roughly about 105-110k ft. The altimeter is also marked with words drogue, snorkel, and main, so it looks like it was read during descent to show altitude for parachute deployment and useless for most of the flight. At maximum altitude he reached 616k ft or 116 miles halfway into the flight.
So how did he keep climbing with no propulsion?
Great Job!
subscribed now, what a super cool video
Welcome aboard!
this is awesome!
What? I thought going suborbital meant riding up and not pushing a single button. ;)
But seriously, I've never seen the entire flight before. Thank you. Yes, true pioneering spaceflight, checking how to fly a spacecraft by manually firing thrusters, and more.
Right, Don. It was critical for Shepard to demonstrate that he had 3-axis attitude control authority over the spacecraft.
Awesome video!
Thanks!
Hey where did you get the footage. is it on a website aand if so can you post the link
Can someone explain what Shepard was talking about when he said he was switching to "fly-by-wire?" I know what the term means but I don't understand the context, i.e., from what status would he be switching the fly-by-wire from? What other way of controlling attitude was there?
There is a technical explanation here - web.mit.edu/digitalapollo/Documents/Chapter4/manualcontrol.pdf look to page 34 -
@@lunarmodule5 Very nice; thank you.
where did you get the footage
My father, Dr. Edwin G. Vail designed that suit he's wearing.
Thats amazing, you should be very proud
I just commented to my wife how the space suit looks like a wetsuit painted silver then i read this.....ha ha.....can,t argue with success!
Amazing channel
Thank you so much 😀
Ive always thought it sad that due to Astropower there were no cameras on Apollo
15 minute sub-orbital pop. His next flight would be a 250,000 mile trip to the moon.
Keep in mind that all those instrument systems were analog, and there was no on-board computer.
Great video - who was cap comm?
I believe it was Deke Skayton
60 year anniversary of Alan Shepard's flight.
That looks like he reached orbital, but I didn't think the Redstone was orbital?
No he did not reach orbital. But the highest point of his trajectory (apogee) was nearly as high (187.5km) as later orbital flights by mercury-atlas (150-248km). The difference between suborbital and orbital flights does not lie in how high you go but how fast you go (and leaving the vertical to get into a circular trajectory). Check out mercury-redsrone 3 and mercury-atlas 6 on Wikipedia
For someone that grew during this period this really brings back great memories these guys really hug their hides out there. Space X and the others sort of bore me its just not the same. One thing I really dislike about Space X and others is the constant cheering going on during the live streaming everytime the vehicle makes a move Blah Blah Blah get over yourselves.
What is "peroxide dump?" Anyone?
I believe it's referring to the hydrogen peroxide used in the RCS control system. They dumped it overboard during the descent...
Thank you.
My uncle Neil was kinda famous too
Outstanding job sir! "The clock has started!" 1 down vote? Probably a Flat-Earther.
The Mercury rocket was extremely small in comparison to the Saturn 5.