Monitoring and control of the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. Personnel seated at control stations in control room of NASA Manned Spacecraft Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The World Map on a wall, showing the three anticipated orbital tracks of the Aurora 7 capsule, carrying Astronaut Scott Carpenter. Personnel note down readings from control panel. They talk through earphones. Man smokes. Greenwich Mean Time displayed on wall.
Astronauts at conference table in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn are seen conversing with others. Two men behind Commander Shepard, talk. Commander Scott Carpenter gives autograph on photographs.
Aerial views of the USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-)32 while deployed in the Atlantic to support the recovery of the Aurora 7 space capsule from the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission. Marine Corps UH 34D helicopters are seen on deck. The ship moves rapidly through calm waters.
Practice activity at sea during operations to support the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission of NASA. U.S. Marine Corp UH 34D helicopter takes off from the USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) and joins with others in a formation. A helicopter takes off from a destroyer and joins up with those from the Spiegel Grove. Formation of helicopters flies over the Atlantic.
Landing Signal Officer (LSO) employs paddles to guide helicopter pilot during approach and landing on deck of USS Spiegel Grove (LSD-32) underway in Atlantic during operations in support of the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission. Using paddles, the LSO warns pilot of being too low at one point, which the pilot immediately corrects.
The U.S. Destroyer, USS Barton (DD-722) underway slowly in the Cape Canaveral Ship Channel, Cape Canaveral, Florida. She is one of the ships in the Mercury-Atlas 7 orbital mission recovery task force.
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