Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Men with cameras track the flight of MR-3. Crowd reacts while they look MR-3 in flight. The crowd looks up. Press personnel take pictures. A man smokes and look from the camera. A man with headphones looks at the flight of MR-3. A sign reads 'NBC WESH TV'. A man on a type writer. A woman writes about MR-3 flight. A man with cap seated on a chair writes. Women look at MR-3 with binoculars. A man sits on a chair.
Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. . Press personnel with cameras look at MR-3. A man with binocular looks at the MR-3 in flight. Crowd reacts during lift-off. Men look up in sky. Cars parked in the background. A tower in the background. Crowd across pad area during pre launch.
Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3. A sign reads 'NASA'. Commander Shepard in flight gear leaves NASA van. NASA officers around him. Commander Shepard wears helmet and flying suit. Commander Shepard enters gantry elevator to Mercury Capsule. Technicians on base.
Pre launch activities of Redstone Mercury (MR) 3. MR-3 in gantry. Technicians work around base of Redstone. Smoke arises from MR-3. Technicians look at MR-3. A man with headphones. A cameraman sets up TV equipment on roof of station wagon. MR-3 in gantry shows LOX venting. Technicians stand on the base. A man gets in a van.
Atlas rocket LV-3B 130-D in a hangar and test of an engine in Cape Canaveral Florida, in advance of NASA Mercury-Atlas MA-9 mission. Technicians work on the missile in a hangar. They assemble the outer body parts of the missile. A technician stands on the missile and the other technician helps him to put on the outer cover of the missile. They run tests and check out the vernier engine at Cape Canaveral. They work on the engine. A technician with a paper in his hand. Various tools on the table. The vernier engine on a test machine. A man at a control panel.
Major L. Gordon Cooper climbs into Faith 7 capsule for his first NASA space flight, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the Mercury Atlas MA-9 mission. McDonnell technicians work on a spacecraft. Major Cooper, wearing a flight suit and helmet, arrives in the White Room and salutes Padleader Guenter F. Wendt, who returns the salute. Major Cooper talks with the McDonnell technicians and shakes hands with Lt. Commander Malcolm S. Carpenter and Walter M. Schirra. Commander Alan B. Shepard in white coveralls. Major Cooper climbs into the capsule. Technicians help him getting in. The hatch being secured. A technician with headphones.
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