Freedom 7 Full Flight Animation
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- On May 5, 1961, Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American in space during a short suborbital hop to validate systems on the Mercury Spacecraft in preparation for orbital flights. While a success, the flight was slightly overshadowed by the Soviet Union's orbital flight manned by Yuri Gagarin less than a month earlier.
Shepard wouldn't fly into space again until 1971 when he became the 5th person to walk on the Moon as commander of Apollo 14.
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For those that haven't seen a mercury capsule in a museum, they're not much bigger than the astronauts inside. It can fit into the bed of a pickup truck.
Alan's strained "OK" repetition as he endures the deceleration forces during re-entry makes it sound very real.
Well it was what he was actually saying since its real audio lol
@@arcosprey4811 I guess I was pointing out how before this he was very relaxed and it was almost like he was following a straight forward and mundane procedure
Yeah like the military never trains over 9g
@@jaypaint4855 he pretty much did 12 albeit for only a few seconds.
@@jaypaint4855 The military does take their pilots higher than 9g on the ground to force them to pass out during training.
"Ah, roger, liftoff and the clock has started."
-- For a second there, I was thinking "was that Insprucker??!?"
Insbrucker is a bit of a bridge back to that era.
@@HylanderSB his voice is very 50s i love every second of it
I had never heard Shepard’s voice transmission before, and I was so surprised by the great quality! Almost sounded like a reporter/journalist commentating over the launch, so calm and informative.
Listening to the dialog, it's pure test pilot all the way, all business. Also; 11.66 G, ouch!
I think that sometimes, amidst the focus on him being the first American in space, it’s easy to forget that he was also testing and validating the systems, much like if he was testing a new airplane design.
If you showed this to the people in charge of this program they would conclude that there were aliens with good cameras. Amazing work as always!
I love how C-Bass made sure to include the washer floating in the cabin at 5:17. I love the fine details!
I remember watching this when I was 5 years old...my Mom got me up early in the morning to watch. She was even cooler a year later, when I was in 1st grade, to call me off school so I could watch John Glenn blast off.
This is absolutely amazingly animated and done. I felt so immersed and had my heart pounding on that reentry. Great shots really felt like I was watching a documentary or movie. Well done!
Oh please please PLEASE make more of these. Of course you couldn't do full mission videos for anything other than Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7, but you could certainly do launch and mission highlights. And of course every single mission has a story that deserves to be told
This took place exactly 61 years ago today. A month after I was born. I always wanted to hear the complete recording of the of this very historic event. Only 16min. of suborbital space flight but a very important step for the space program at that time. Thank you so much for this video. I was driving to work at 4:00 in the morning when I heard this on the radio and by sheer coincidence I discovered this channel tonight with your video about Freedom 7 and Alan Shepard. Again thank you and subscribed right away.
Amazing as always
So immersive and almost feeling what the astronaut is experiencing, especially the 11,6 G 😱. Great Job to you and those pioneers of the space exploration.
Jesus, he experienced 11.6 G's during re-entry?!
Suborbital reentries are usually loads more brutal than orbital ones, because you come in at a much steeper angle and encounter thicker air at a higher speed
@@dsdy1205 Huh, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining that.
@@RobinClaassen Np! Another good example is the recent Soyuz failure and abort. Because the astronauts were on a high suborbital trajectory they clocked I think 12 G's on reentry. If you search "Scott Manley ballistic reentry" he has a good vid on the subject.
I like how you can hear his tongue get 'heavier' :)
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Thank you so much! THIS is how this historical event should be taught. No longer a story, but an *experience*!
A very nice sequence.
I liked the fading of the exhaust plume as the ambient air pressure decreased.
One technical quibble. The periscope view shown here resembled a monochrome TV display. In reality it's purely an optical instrument, like a wide angle monocular. The view would be as 'live' as the view through the porthole.
It was surprising that, given the overall sophistication, there was no splash effect at all. The capsule was made to simply merge into the water without disturbance.
On balance, a great simulation.
Alan Shepard's periscope did appear monochrome to him. He had inserted a filter over the periscope to cut out sun glare during the delays on the launch pad, but had forgotten to take the filter off prior to launch.
Very cool. As someone who lived through and followed closely the early era of space exploration, I appreciate your video very much. Hope to see more.
really great stuff! this is stuff that should go on a screen in a museum
Excellent, I would have liked a modern day spaceX type of telemetry bar along the base but still excellent, thanks.
You can hear Shepard's voice straining as the Gs build up on reentry. 8:58
12:00 I've never seen the Mercury capsule with this before. Fantastic work
It's a really overlooked part of the Mercury flight profile, which is weird considering a faulty landing bag deploy signal is what caused concern about John Glenn's heat shield being loose.
@@CbassProductions and probably why they no longer designed a landing bag into future spacecraft, faulty signal or not.
I do know however that Glenn's flight was the catalyst that redefined the Flight Director role, making his word the word of God during a mission, to where nobody in NASA management, not even the President of the United States, can reverse a decision he makes in real time. An absolute necessity in Mission Control
I was barely six years old...just right to tenderly begin a 12-year fascination with our space program!
Historical fact with some good animations, worthy of being placed in schools to remember the event. Seeing how everything happened in space makes it much better, the engineering of the time how it worked.
Very good for you.
Thank you for this. I was five years old when Dad woke us up to watch this launch. I remember the delays and being surprised when it was all over so quickly. But mostly I remember my dad and how excited he was. You gave me a moment. Be well.
Hearing the actual voice recording I'm really impressed with the job Ted Levine did playing him on From the Earth to the Moon. His recreation of this flight in particular is spot-on.
Shepard was the first American in space and hung in for 10 years and was able to walk on the moon! It could only have been better if he had flown Apollo 17 in 1972 where he could have been the last Ameican on the moon for 50+ years.
Well, he was flying for a little while … all by himself. I called that a success. Well done, freedom7. But man, that reentry…… “OUTCH AT 11.5 G’s” damn that’s a man for staying awake through that!
Y'all do FREAKING AMAZING work! Beautifully animated, and edited.
Amazing video Corey, as always. Beautiful integration of then and now.
Stunning job. I have listened to that recording for over 50 years, but never really envisioned it until your animation. Good work.
This is amazing!
If you don't have an idea for a next video you could make a Gemini \ Agena mission or the Soyuz-Apollo mission.
Gemini DEFINITELY needs more love
These animations are so good the effort put into them is amazing!
You nailed it, having the internal camera there is just genius. Great work!
just brilliant, thanks so much for this.
I was six and we watched all the coverage. I don't remember, but, we always watched the space coverage, and I remember Mercury capsule toys. This video gives a fantastic perspective. Wow!
Excellent, I was a little kid when this happened and didn't see it.
This is so nice to relive it in real time.
Thank you.
This was just awesome. That fifteen minute flight always struck me as sort of, well, trivial. This visualization makes it clear that it was a stunning experience.
Amzing work as always!
brilliant animation , thank you very much
Wow- this explained a LOT! Great job!
Alan doing over 11g: "okey... okey". Such a a super human!
Outstanding work. Sheppard later played golf on the moon. Not a Boy Scout like Glenn, but a hero of mine.
Absolutely phenomenal work!! This is fantastic!!
This channel is so underrated! Great stuff!
Exceptionally impressive visual effects! Just frick'n wow! Great job!
Why am i just now discovering this channel!?!?! Awesome work!!!
Marvelous animation!
As always, thanks much for sharing.
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No way! Bro you are a God of animation! We appreciate you and thank you so much for this beautiful eye candy!
Great job Corey, this is gives us new and amazing views of a breakthrough moment in US space history, thank you!
So fantastic, loved every second of it! 🚀🤩
Wow absolutely incredible, felt like I was in the capsule. Stunning work
That was an amazing recreation! Well done!
WOW, great work dude
Excellent animation. I congratulate you for this work! 😀
Mesmerizing. Thanks!
Super job with the animation! congratulations.
Excellent! (Might want to improve that splashless splash-down!)
Very well done, i love your work!
Thank you 👍
Wow! Impressive. Thank you.
Brilliant work my man👍
Amazing Work!
hi matthew😆
What I find interesting is that the astronauts that flew multiple missions said that this Redstone rocket and the Atlas beat the crap out of them a lot more than the Saturn V...several of them said that you could not believe how smooth flying the Saturn V was.
Amazing! Thanks a lot
I saw a dummy Mercury capsule at the KSC when I visited in January and boy are they tiny. There was no way I could fit inside, let alone with a pressure suit. These astronauts were just built different.
Great work. Well Done.
Wow, what a great job 👍🏻💪🏻
amazing work again
Really enjoyable. I remember that day. Nerve-wracking even for a kid during the wait after launch, trying to follow on TV.
Superb video.
Fantastic - well done!!
Amazing job!
Excellently done!
Awesome work!
Nice work!
Awesome animation. Well done.
Thanks for creating such a great animation along with the inset of Shepherd. Fantastic! Great job.👍. 11.6 gees on reentry, wow!!!
I second one of the other comments that was made. Please create a Gemini mission.
That would be amazing.
Excellently done 👍🏼
Amazing drone footage.
Incredible work.
This is incredible
Marvelous!
Excellent animation!
Amazing video. Bravo 👏 👌 ✋
Outstanding.
Amazing!
That was very impressive! I don't remember Alan Shepherd's flight but I do remember John Glenn's launch.
This is so good
Loved it.
Well done.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
Well done
A very well done!
The 3 retro rockets that fire were meant to slow the capsule down on orbital flights to reenter the atmosphere. Since the redstone rocket was not capable of sending the capsule to orbit they were not nessecery for this mission. They did need to be tested to see if they would fire in space for later orbital missions using the bigger Atlas rockets. Normally on an orbital flight they would fire the rockets in the retrograde direction, bringing the orbit path into the atmosphere. Since a suborbital arc is already steep and reentry harder on the astronaut (here he experiences over 10 g's) they needed to angle the capsule for "retro" burn so the change in velocity didn't make the reentry profile too steep to be safe. This was accomplished by firing the thrust at an angle between the retrograde and radial out directions. Had they fired them true retrograde on this flight Shepard may have pulled too many g's or burned up from falling too fast. Ultimately if the retrorockets failed the capsule would have still made it back to Earth, just landing in a different place.
In addition they angled the heatshield up like this on all flights to jettison the retro-rocket pack in a way that made sure that it would not collide with the capsule and damage the heatshield. On orbital missions they would pitch the heatshield up AFTER the retro burn for jettisoning the pack, before pitching the heatshield to face the prograde direction. Since this flight was so short they really only had time to test the manual RCS control (pitch yaw roll) and then use the fly by wire system to orient the craft to the attitude it needed to be a minute or two later for the retro rocket test.
incredible !
5:16. Even the washer floating in apogee. Beautiful stuff
I want the same for Gagarin!
Gagarin was the first in the space...
This is outstanding and they should give you an Academy Award for it
Are you kidding me? What an amazing video. Someone should hire you to make movies for Hollywood or something.