" AURORA 7 " 1962 NASA DOCUMENTARY PROJECT MERCURY SPACE FLIGHT PROGRAM SCOTT CARPENTER XD61284
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The NASA documentary tells the story of Scott Carpenter and the Aurora 7 Mission. The Aurora 7, a Mercury-Atlas 7 rocket, was piloted by the astronaut Scott Carpenter in May of 1962. Carpenter had a five-hour mission to photograph the Earth, and, amongst other things, study liquids in a weightless environment. The film was produced by NASA. It shows several different locations: the Cape Canaveral launch site, the NASA Goddard facility, and Guaymas Mexico. The Wilbur Wright Orville Wright building also appears in the beginning of the film. Various people from the NASA centers are shown in the film, but most notably are astronauts Alan B. Shepard, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter. The Wilbur Wright Orville Wright building appears in the background 0:33. The narrator starts at 0:38, comparing the birth of the Air Age at Kitty Hawk to the rocket and the Space Age. calling it “the symbol of the dawn of the age of man’s flight in space” 0:54. Newspaper spins into view at 1:40, showing the title “Flying Machine Soars 3 Miles In Sand Hills and Waves.” Alan B. Shepard is shown on screen entering the Freedom 7 spacecraft at 1:57. The rocket launches at 2:10. Astronaut John Glenn is shown entering the Friendship 7 at 2:53. The narrator explains that their mission was to prove that they could sustain life at orbital flight 2:57-58. Friendship 7 launches at 3:15. Astronaut Scott Carpenter is shown at 3:35. Carpenter is shown discussing his missions with a group of scientists 3:50. They approach the Aurora 7, Carpenter’s rocket at 6:15. Aurora 7 is shown painted on the rocket at 7:13. The video shows the recovery forces standing at the ready at 8:00. A small crowd of onlookers are shown at 8:38. NASA radio broadcast to start countdown to launch at 9:17. NASA control is shown at 9:44. The Precision Radar is shown at 10:13, the narrator explains that it will note every motion of the Atlas rocket at every instant of its flight. The narrator goes on to explain that “the radar information will flow instantaneously into high speed computers which have been pre-programmed with the correct trajectory data” (10:19-25). Mercury control center is shown on the screen at 11:02. T-10 seconds is at 12:47. The rocket launches at 12:58. People are shown watching on their T.V.’s at home at 13:18. Carpenter is shown in his cockpit at 14:52. Mission Control is shown celebrating at 15:04. The orbit number counter is displayed on the screen at 15:17. Carpenter describes seeing the Moon through the center of the window 15:23. The narrator says the Aurora 7 is in orbit at 15:27. Carpenter’s photographs of the burned-up Atlas is shown at 15:57. Carpenter is shown with his camera at 16:30. The horizon (the haze layer) from space is shown at 16:43.
Venus was observed at 17:02. Space particles appear on the screen from Carpenters view at 18:03. Images of the Earth from orbit are shown at 19:52. Aurora 7 approaches the California coast at 21:04. Communications blackout begins and people are shown in Mercury Control, waiting with bated breath at 26:26. The high speed mainframe computers at the Goddard Space Center are shown, they provide a landing point prediction for the rocket at 26:37. Task force plane is shown speeding to the new landing spot at 25:00. Life raft with Carpenter inside is shown floating in the water at 26:08. Helicopters and the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid is shown at 26:29. Carpenter is shown walking with rescue teams at 27:32. The destroyer USS Pierce retrieves the Aurora 7 at 27:57. Carpenter is shown being debriefed, his every word recorded on magnetic tape, and then shown receiving a medal at 28:58.
Mercury-Atlas 7, launched May 24, 1962, was the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The spacecraft, named Aurora 7, was piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. He was the sixth human to fly in space. The mission used Mercury spacecraft No. 18 and Atlas launch vehicle No. 107-D.
The flight was for three Earth orbits, essentially a repeat of John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6. However, a targeting error during reentry took the spacecraft 250 miles (400 km) off-course, delaying recovery of Carpenter and the spacecraft for an hour. Carpenter was held responsible, at least in part, for the landing error. Carpenter left NASA for the Navy SEALAB program in 1964.
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2:18 "Welcome back! We're so glad you survived! Oh, and you're fired."
Carpenter was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his excursion into space, and America is grateful.
Carpenter ignored comms and ended up over shooting his reentry by 250 miles. He was never allowed to fly again after that and worked on under sea mission after that.
When you work out the navigation, he missed pushing the retro button by less than a minute. I worked in the shop that built the Mercury capsule in St. Louis and although I came along after Mercury was finished, the mockups were still in the shop. Wasn't much in the way of nav instruments in the capsule. All his nav fixes were given to him. Still inexcusable. I ate my lunch in a mercury capsule a number of times.
Carpenters will always lead you astray
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, the fourth American astronaut ,wore a silver space suit on his excursion into space.
How's his hearing?
8:08 - Where did they get the idea for a *silver* space suit, and why did they change to white? 🤔Just wondering…
i wonder if it was coated for radiation protection
@@johnmadara1252 The new NASA suits are black. I haven’t yet bothered to find out why. Maybe it’s a fashion loop and silver will come back someday.
@@stockholm1752 the color change was simply an aesthetic choice by the designer of the suit, it's for the cover of the suit, the suit itself is white.
Silver or white will reflect sunlight that could otherwise overheat the astronaut.
Those were the days......
GO ALREADY
The situation within Mission Control, though, was far from fine. Flight Director Chris Kraft, and many other mission controllers, were furious, accusing Carpenter of having recklessly endangered himself during a botched re-entry. Their anger was exacerbated when, aboard the recovery ship, the astronaut had off-handedly remarked that “I didn’t know where I was…and they didn’t know where I was, either.” One controller is said to have retorted: “Bullshit! That son-of-a-bitch is damned lucky to be alive!”
Kraft’s team knew exactly Carpenter’s position and had even advised the astronaut when to expect air rescue teams to arrive. “He was sitting in his life raft, enjoying the calm weather,” wrote Kraft, “when frogmen jumped from a plane behind him and startled him by swimming up.” He described Carpenter’s “cavalier dismissal of a life-threatening problem”-the failure of the spacecraft’s navigational instruments-and troublesome re-entry and swore that the astronaut would never fly again.
Carpenter was an unrepentant miscreant whose flippant attitude enraged the recovery crews. They risked their lives and safety on a multi-hour search that would not have been needed had Carpenter done his job right. And his response upon encountering the divers was to sarcastically offer them a bite of his survival food ration he was munching on.
He certainly didn't fly again, but it was hardly his fault that he splashed down 250mi off-course. There were multiple malfunctions including intermittent failure of attitude indicators, the retros firing late, and underthrust. He made a joke about that, too, noting that he'd had the record for overshooting the target for years until some cosmonauts missed their target by six times that,
EVERY astronaut jokes, in much the same way as EMTs and hospital workers do. High-pressure, high-stress job, you take relief where you can find it. But then there was Congress and it was right in some of the tensest parts of the Space Race, with the Soviets constantly besting the US. Still, John Young wasn't grounded for the sandwich incident (which wasn't the first smuggled corned beef sammy, and it didn't have mustard or even apickle). Those rocket jockeys damned well knew how dangerous their jobs were. Chris Kraft did an excellent job but I think he should've had a few whispers into certain Congressional ears to get them to lighten up and pay attention to real issues, kinda like the same problems we have today (except today's Capitol dwellers are proud of their lack of education).
In a 1999 documentary he said, "The zero-g sensation and the visual sensation of space flight are transcending experiences, and I wish everybody could have them." What a thought.
Carpenter deliberately used far too much of his attitude control fuel during his orbits. He essentially took the employer supplied vehicle out on an unauthorized spin. That was a very serious premeditated misuse of his position, and it nearly wrecked the whole program. He was “quiet fired” by NASA, which itself tolerated and enabled much misbehavior by the original 7, but what Carpenter did was not acceptable.
Later in life, Carpenter was cited along with Chevron Oil for blatantly false advertising in a series of TV ads he did claiming an additive reduced smog when it did not.
In the next decade he traveled with Edward Teller, the famous pusher of the H bomb, this time pushing the SDI weapons. Both the H bomb and SDI had been unneeded and greatly escalated bloated military spending.
Quite a distinguished record of dishonesty.
@@brianarbenz1329 He was a bit of a nut. In my book anyone married 4 x times is by definition.
@@MWGrossmann He had to fire the retros manually, and did so 1.5 seconds late, which resulted in the severe overshoot of the landing zone. He'd wasted much of his propellant "chasing fireflies" and jetting the capsule around back and forth looking at things, and yes had electronic automatic control system problems that wasted more fuel and left him in a predicament when it came to reentry-- he barely had enough propellant left to reorient the spacecraft for reentry and to keep it properly oriented for parachute deployment afterwards. He didn't make any friends in Mission Control by disobeying orders and being so flippant about it, and intimating that Mission Control shared the blame for his predicament. Kraft said afterwards he'd never fly again, and he never did. Went back to the Navy and was given a prestige project in some undersea habitat experiment where he lived in a tube on the ocean floor for awhile, but he never flew in space again.
lmfao
8 3 5. HUH In the Face
Lol
Anyone know what the song playing before takeoff is?