NASA - Mercury Space Project

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keywords: nasa, space race, mercury space project, freedom 7, astronaut alan b. shepherd jr., project strato-lab, high altitude stratospheric testing

Synopsis: Test flight of the first manned space craft Freedom 7 piloted by Astronaut Alan B. Shepherd Jr. and recovered from the Atlantic by heavy helicopter plus Project Strato-Lab which using a high altitude balloon lofted two astronauts into the stratosphere to test them and their ability to perform a variety of general tasks...(read more)

Date: 1961
Duration: 00:05:36
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States

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NASA - Mercury Space Project

NASA - Mercury Space Project

Test flight of the first manned spacecraft Mercury-Redstone 3 or Freedom 7 of the Project Mercury led by the newly created space agency NASA. Scenes at Cape Canaveral of the launching of the first American into space, showing astronaut Alan B. Shepherd, Jr., Commander, United States Navy, boarding the space capsule; the liftoff and images of face of Commander Shepherd while in flight; the recovery from the Atlantic by a Marine HUS-1 Sikorsky helicopter and Commander Shepherd jumping out of the helicopter onto deck of the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39).

Project Strato-Lab. Scenes of the first manned balloon flight from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, USS Antietam (CVS-36) in the Gulf of Mexico, carrying two Navy men into space for test of the effects of space on man; the first ascension of the "Strato Lab" series that sets a new altitude record for manned balloon flight.