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Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule, Cape Canaveral.
America's first sub-orbital flight. Astronaut Commander Alan B Shepard in Freedom Seven Capsule. NASA special van arrives at pad number 5, Cape Canaveral. Commander Alan B Shepard carries a portable air conditioner and walks to the elevator. Doctor William Douglas, Mercury flight Surgeon follows him. Elevator moves to Mercury capsule. Technicians prepare Redstone booster. Technicians aid astronaut Commander Alan B Shepard into Freedom Seven Capsule. 'Countdown and proceed' written in control room. Alan B Shepard during countdown procedure. Gantry moves away from Redstone-Mercury and the boom arm of cherry picker swinging up to capsule. Umbilical arm drops away and missile lifts off. Commander Alan B Shepard talks. Floating harness strap during weightlessness. Mercury launch team personnel seen in mission control room, including flight surgeon and capsule environment monitors. Aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain. Marine helicopter HUS-1 takes off from carrier ship. Crewmen signal. Commander Alan B Shepard during flight. Aircraft carrier crewmen sit on deck. Capsule with open parachute descends. Commander Alan B Shepard releases harness strap. Capsule near surface of water.
Doctors examine chimpanzee named Enos after he successfully orbits the earth twice.
A chimpanzee orbits the earth twice. NASA technicians and scientists with Enos, a 5 and a half year old chimpanzee, in Cape Canaveral. They place the chimpanzee in a transfer van. Mercury-Atlas 5 spacecraft on launch pad. The launch of the missile. The missile goes into the space. A capsule orbits the earth 2 times. The capsule lands in the ocean. A rescue team recovers the capsule. They take the chimpanzee to an ambulance. A crane holds the capsule. At the Kenley Air Force Base hospital doctors examine the chimpanzee.
Crew aboard USS Randolph CV-15 welcomes NASA astronaut Virgil Grissom after successful space journey from Cape Canaveral.
Space victory of astronaut Virgil Ivan Grissom from Cape Canaveral. Crewmen pipe the fuel aboard the Redstone rocket. A man drives a truck. A missile on a launch pad. Captain Virgil Grissom disembarks from a transfer van and boards a gantry elevator. The crew helps Grissom to board the Liberty Bell 7 capsule. Commander Alan Shepard at the control center. The crew awaits the launch of the missile. The missile is launched. Civilians watch through binoculars as the missile travels in the space. The astronaut goes 118 miles up and 303 miles down range. The capsule is released at sea. Helicopters take off from Essex class aircraft carrier, USS Randolph CV-15 to pick up the astronaut and the capsule. The helicopter rescues astronaut Grissom and tries to keep a hold on the sinking capsule Mercury. Astronaut Grissom climbs into the helicopter. The cheering crew welcomes the astronaut on the carrier after his success
A successful space journey of NASA astronaut Virgil Ivan Grissom aboard Liberty Bell 7 Capsule from Cape Canaveral.
Astronaut Virgil Ivan Grissom's space journey from Cape Canaveral. Crewmen pipe the fuel aboard the Redstone rocket. A missile on a launch pad. Captain Virgil Grissom disembarks from a transfer van and boards a gantry elevator. The crew helps Grissom to board the Liberty Bell 7 capsule. Helicopters take off from Essex class aircraft carrier USS Randolph CV-15 to pick up the astronaut and the capsule. A helicopter rescues astronaut Grissom and tries to keep a hold on the sinking capsule Mercury. Astronaut Grissom climbs into the helicopter. The cheering crew welcomes astronaut Grissom on the carrier Randolph after his success.
A crane places a Minuteman missile on a launching pad and a service structure moves back from it in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Launch of the first Minuteman missile No. 401 at 1100 hours EST (Eastern Standard Time) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A crane places the Minuteman missile on a launching pad. A service structure moves back from the missile on the pad. The missile on the launch pad. Views of the missile.
A Minuteman missile is launched and it is in a programmed flight in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Launch of the first Minuteman missile No. 401 at 1100 hours EST (Eastern Standard Time) in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Minuteman missile is launched. It goes up vertically. Coverage of the programmed flight. It travels past the clouds in the sky.