Launch of Friendship 7 piloted by astronaut John Glenn in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Emblem of NASA. Message in light circling the Times Building in Manhattan, New York City, at night, reads: 'Glenn ready for orbital flight.' A title slate reads: 'Friendship 7'. View of Times Square New York City, at night. Views from various parts of the world, with voices in background, broadcasting about the event in their respective local languages. Parliament buildings in London. Wide view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris at dusk or dawn. A woman in a vegetable market. People buying and selling goods in an Arab market including some men wearing Keffiyeh. A neighborhood in China. A Japanese city at night with neon signs. A Mexican man carrying a guitar. View of various images broadcast on television (the images show the television screens) from American cities, including titles "Man into space -- Los Angeles;" "Sioux City --Mercury shoot;" "New Orleans-- standing by orbital flight." and "Please stand by man in orbit --Boston."
Preparation for launching of Friendship 7 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Television monitors in mission control room. Countdown status and standard time displayed. NASA launch team members on giant machine. They note down readings of different time zone. They test the readiness of launch and wait for one supreme moment. A man set the frequencies. Team members work on machine and talk on headsets. An American on manned machine. Gantry of spacecraft.
Astronaut John Glenn puts on Mercury pressure suit for piloting the spacecraft 'Friendship 7' in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A technician assists to Glenn in donning of helmet and gloves. A man smokes cigar. Glenn's face in helmet and he smiles. He leaves the Hangar and arrives to launch pad. Alan Shepard and Grissom tested the Mercury spacecraft. John Glenn gets into couch mold to orbit the world. Signs on board. Flight controllers seated in room and work on machine at Mercury control center. A Controller talks on headset. Sign shows flight of spacecraft around the world.
Cape Canaveral, Florida. At station 2, Mercury network proceeds for countdown. A man at Mercury tracking station at Bermuda gets printouts. He gives it to a woman. Men seated at tracking station center and working on machines. A man notes down readings from giant machines and gets the information from Friendship 7. Engineers and scientists work on machine and talk on headsets. Signs over world map on wall.
Mercury control stations all over world. USAF Rose Knot at sea. At rose knot station: a man on machine, official communicates with Friendship 7. Men at work. People with camel carts outside the station at Canary Islands. At Kano station, people work on transmitting station. At Muchea station, officials talk on headphones, an official smokes cigar. Rotating Earth. Satellite dish. Men, operating control panel at station and talking on headset at Canton Island and Hawaii. Officials work on giant machine at Mexico. In California, men are ready to track John Glenn. In Texas, officials talk on headsets. Personnel operate station at Corpus Christi. In Cape Canaveral, two men control the space flight of Mercury. An official gets printout. Official transmits the information on transmitters Officials on giant machine to Mercury control.
Departure of John Glenn from hangar in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Pilot of Friendship 7, John Glenn's face in helmet. John Powers speaks as John Glenn prepares to leave. Headlights of the NASA transfer van waiting to take John Glenn to the launch pad. John Glenn leaves hangar and get into the NASA transfer van. The NASA transfer van is driven towards the Mercury Atlas 6 launch pad. Views of Glenn inside the transfer van. Walls inside the transfer van include signs that read 'Shepard and Grissom express' and 'A. Shepard.' At the launch pad, John Glenn leaves the NASA transfer van and enters the launch pad elevator with technicians. They go to top of gantry. The U.S. flag symbol and the words 'United States' and 'Friendship 7' seen on the space capsule. Misson Control then asks Padleader Guenter F. Wendt if he and the astronaut are ready for Glenn's insertion into the capsule, to which the "roger" reply is given. John Glenn gets into space capsule with the help of the white room technicians.
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