"FLIGHT OF FAITH 7" USA'S 4TH MANNED ORBITAL FLIGHT PROJECT MERCURY GORDON COOPER JR. XD47804

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    This 60s-era NASA film "Flight of Faith 7" is a documentary about the final flight of Project Mercury. Faith 7 was launched May 15th, 1963 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The film follows astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. as he prepares for and eventually carries out the 4th American manned orbital flight and proves how well man can function in space as well as the efficacy of humans as the primary component of space flight systems. Project Mercury’s launch was an international spectacle that was televised on screens throughout North America and Europe.
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    National Aeronautics and Space Administration USA (NASA) (0:07). Close-up Project Mercury spacecraft (0:21). Spectators (0:31). CBS Norelco TV camera (0:37). Aerial camera above Cape Canaveral, Florida records Project Mercury launch (0:40). “The Flight of Faith 7” overlaid aerial shot (0:55). Astronaut undergoing tests in lab (1:19). Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (1:40). Cooper in cockpit of US Air Force SuperSonic Jet (2:09). Engineers gathered (2:17). Astronauts experience weightlessness in c-131 aircraft (2:35). Cooper training on centrifuge and tumbling spacecraft (2:45). Space flight simulators equipment (3:06). Spacecraft buttons and gears dashboard (3:19). Cooper putting on Mercury Space Suit or Navy mark IV (3:33). Sensor for heartbeat and respiration rates (4:27). Single telemetry unit (5:06). Final test of astronaut suit (5:30). Cooper leaving astronaut preparation facility hangar (5:55). Faith 7 mated to Atlas Launch Vehicle at NASA gantry (6:11). Engineers working on spacecraft (6:12). Removal of periscope (6:28). New equipment being added (6:44). Components of the space vehicle (6:56). Engineers working on different materials (7:14). Undershot of Mercury Atlas 9 (7:18). Cooper entering the spacecraft (7:30). People on standby in Mercury Control Center (7:42). Emergency rescue forces setting out (7:45). Cooper entering MA-9 flight footage of crew inspecting spacecraft Bermuda Tracking Station (8:04). MA-9 spacecraft at dock (8:22). Control room (8:30). NASA employees and rescuers at tracking stations (8:47). MA-9 takeoff (9:48). Cooper inside launched rocket (10:13). Spaceship in sky (10:31). Ground station tracking spaceship (10:44). BECO (Booster Engine Cut Off) (11:09). Animation events beyond camera range (11:20). Sustainer engine driving Faith 7 (11:28). Posigrade rocket detached (11:34). SECO (Sustainer Engine Cut Off) (11:47). Cooper in spacecraft (12:01). Cooper using fly-by-wire control to direct spacecraft (12:08). Map Canary Islands, Spain (Canary Capcom Station) and Kano, Nigeria (12:38). Map Zanzibar, Tanzania (13:16). Recording flight using onboard tape recorder (13:31). Perigee over Bermuda and apogee over Australia (14:05). Map United States and Mexico Point Aguello and Guaymas (14:19). Slow-scan television camera (14:42). Flashing light experiment (15:35). Globe featuring Latin America, Greenland, Europe and Africa measuring radiation in space (16:15). Geiger counters (16:36). Tools to measure radiation inside chamber: pocket ion chamber or dosimeter, film patch, photographic emulsion pack, film patches (16:57). Packaged space food (17:54). Experimental photographic assignments of earth’s horizon/limb (18:32). Experiment with 35mm camera of two dim light phenomena: zodiacal light and earth night airglow layer (18:47). Infrared photography of earth for the Weather Bureau (19:22). Aerial shots of Atlas Mountains, Morocco, the Himalayas, and the Philippine Islands (19:40). Cooper saying prayer from space (20:43). Greetings to Summit Meeting of African Statesmen speaking to Zanzibar station just passed Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (21:23). Map of the US and Mexico showing orbits 15-18 (21:55). Cooper loses contact between Bermuda and Hawaii, 0.05 gravity light turns on (22:04). Damage control at Mercury Control Center among NASA and contractor engineers (23:06). Automatic stabilization and control systems (ASCS operating system) not operating (23:30). Retro fire and re-entry (24:22). Map showing Japan and Coastal Sentry Quebec location (24:29). USS Kearsarge (CV-33) heading to rescue point (24:38). Cooper contacts John Glenn on Coastal Sentry Quebec (25:02). Cooper reentering earth’s atmosphere (25:49). Cooper parachuting from sky (26:28). Post-flight analysis (27:34). Speech John F. Kennedy (28:10).
    Gordo Cooper went on to fly in space as Command Pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965.
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Комментарии • 67

  • @drmarkintexas-400
    @drmarkintexas-400 2 года назад +10

    🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
    Thank you for sharing

    • @PeriscopeFilm
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  • @michaeldavidfigures9842
    @michaeldavidfigures9842 2 года назад +15

    "But on that glorious day in 1963; Gordo Cooper would fly farther, higher, and faster than any man had flown before. And for one brief moment Gordo Cooper would become the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen."
    Paraphrased

  • @VictorySpeedway
    @VictorySpeedway 2 года назад +25

    As a 10-year old kid, these were very exciting times. I followed the space program closely, read everything I could get my hands on. These films are great to watch; bring me back to a much simpler time. "Mom, can I have another glass of Tang?"

    • @everseeker
      @everseeker 2 года назад +3

      I had Sooooooo much tang in those days

    • @jamesstark8316
      @jamesstark8316 2 года назад +2

      I was 11 in '63. I hated Tang but drank it because if it was good enough for the astronauts (especially John Glenn) it was good enough for me. Cheers.

  • @michaeltuz608
    @michaeltuz608 2 года назад +16

    My second grade teacher Mrs. Newton brought a radio in to school so we could listen to coverage of this mission live. The school was the 240 year-old Gaylord School, the last one room schoolhouse in operation in Connecticut. At tthe time I didn't appreciate the poetic beauty of observing the beginings of the Space Age from a Colonial era schoolhouse.

    • @bobbiaye51
      @bobbiaye51 Год назад

      SISTER FRANCIS ANTHONY , MY TEACHER PUT A SMALL TRANSITOR RADIO ON HER DESK SO OUR CLASS COULD LISTEN

  • @billenright2788
    @billenright2788 2 года назад +4

    All Oklahomans are quite proud of this cat 'Gordo' was one-of-a-kind. RIP hero.

  • @dancrawford829
    @dancrawford829 2 года назад +2

    Thanks for this great reminder of how these pioneers of spaceflight got the job done despite malfunctions... so good to see the hotdog man himself... RIP Gordo,you're in good company!

    • @PeriscopeFilm
      @PeriscopeFilm  2 года назад

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  • @phmwu7368
    @phmwu7368 2 года назад +7

    USAF Captain Gordon Cooper was the first to take good photographs of Earth's surface and oceans. Moreover he was the first to check two different time pieces while in orbit as he wore his personal Omega Speedmaster CK2998 chronograph on his left wrist and his personal Accutron Astronaut GMT tuning fork pilot watch on his right wrist. 🧐MoonwatchUniverse

  • @oneilluminatus
    @oneilluminatus Год назад

    The amount of effort a coordination that went into this program is so impressive.
    Even by modern standards.
    Just amazing.

  • @EtzEchad
    @EtzEchad 2 года назад +4

    They only mentioned this in passing, but nearly every automatic system failed on that flight.
    Those Mercury astronauts were really heroes. It's a wonder that none of them died on those flights.

  • @vincentrobinson9325
    @vincentrobinson9325 2 года назад +1

    In my opinion America's greatest astronaut pulling off that manual re-entry after instrument failure wow Gordon Cooper the man 🤘🏻

  • @jackkomisar458
    @jackkomisar458 2 года назад +4

    Faith 7 splashed down 4 miles from the prime recovery ship. This was the most accurate landing to date in the U.S. space program, despite the failure of the automatic controls.

  • @brd400
    @brd400 2 года назад

    Talk about a real American hero. This guy had a giant brass balls and he was smart the best they had. Much respect

  • @Semper_Iratus
    @Semper_Iratus 2 года назад +11

    Go hotdog! Go!

    • @publicmail2
      @publicmail2 2 года назад +7

      OK, you can be Gus...

    • @thomasparisi5333
      @thomasparisi5333 2 года назад +7

      And for a brief moment, Gordo Copper became the greatest pilot anyone had ever seen :)

    • @mdcraig62
      @mdcraig62 2 года назад +2

      @@publicmail2 They really did Grissom dirty in that movie.A great pilot and engineer and they picked 'hillbilly' to go with as personallity

    • @publicmail2
      @publicmail2 2 года назад +1

      @@mdcraig62 The thing I don't like about that movie is he portrayed as a nut, which is unfair.

    • @RideAcrossTheRiver
      @RideAcrossTheRiver 2 года назад

      @@publicmail2 It was fair.

  • @004Black
    @004Black 2 года назад +3

    Wow, what an important capture of the history of humanity in space. I had the privilege to attend classes for a couple years at the Gordon Cooper Technology Center in Shawnee Oklahoma where I was able to gain insight into the unique individual that was Gordon. He apparently witnessed UFO phenomena but few ever want to mention that.

    • @JamesOberg
      @JamesOberg 2 года назад

      ""He apparently witnessed UFO phenomena but few ever want to mention that."" == After leaving NASA he told some really far-out stories, that are still debated.

    • @Primus54
      @Primus54 2 года назад

      @@JamesOberg Debated… Yes. But as testimony in Congress demonstrated yesterday, old Gordo has been vindicated. There indeed are UFO/UAPs that cannot be explained.

    • @JamesOberg
      @JamesOberg 2 года назад

      @@Primus54 == How does some general UAP admission in the 2020's reflect on specific incidents from the 1950s? Have you ever seen ANY independent investigations of Cooper's 1957 'landing at Edwards' story? A =SINGLE= other witness report?

    • @JamesOberg
      @JamesOberg 2 года назад

      @@Primus54 -- "old Gordo has been vindicated" == You mean about his tale of a UFO landing at Edwards AFB in 1957? Has =ANYBODY= checked and validated THAT story?

    • @Primus54
      @Primus54 2 года назад +2

      @@JamesOberg Asked & answered… This appears to be very important to you, but I’m not arguing? 🙄

  • @brianbarrett2487
    @brianbarrett2487 2 года назад +1

    His voice on accent is great. Can tell how much he's getting shaken.

  • @publicmail2
    @publicmail2 2 года назад +7

    Poor Shepard had a rectal thermometer, albeit a sub orbital flight.

    • @abundantYOUniverse
      @abundantYOUniverse 2 года назад +1

      Yeah but his Taint Tension Meter was much more uncomfortable.

    • @whirledpeas3477
      @whirledpeas3477 2 года назад

      ​@@abundantYOUniverse Without a doubt, all he said was taint nothing to it.

    • @abundantYOUniverse
      @abundantYOUniverse 2 года назад

      @@whirledpeas3477 Mr. Hamster, I would proudly serve with you in a bed made of Timothy Hay or dried grass.

  • @fepatton
    @fepatton 2 года назад

    It’s wonderfully ironic that the probable next spacecraft to be qualified to fly human beings, the Boeing Starliner, also uses the Atlas booster, albeit the latest generation. That is one seriously successful booster family!

  • @allgood6760
    @allgood6760 2 года назад

    Cool vid!... read his book🚀

  • @richardlouisnewman1064
    @richardlouisnewman1064 Год назад

    Mr. Cooper? Who's the best pilot you ever saw?

  • @johnkozlovich5519
    @johnkozlovich5519 Месяц назад

    "F'n eh Bubba. Go Hotdog Gooo...

  • @CraigGood
    @CraigGood 2 года назад +1

    Who's the best pilot I ever saw?

    • @wojciechbogdan3361
      @wojciechbogdan3361 2 года назад +2

      I said pictures on a wall! Back at some place that, uh... don't even exist anymore...

  • @gregpeterman1102
    @gregpeterman1102 2 года назад +1

    2:26 John Glenn

    • @tedpeterson1156
      @tedpeterson1156 2 года назад

      Bonus points if you can name the guy on the left. I think it's Deke Slayton.

  • @nicholasmaude6906
    @nicholasmaude6906 2 года назад

    It's a pity MA-10 was never launched.

  • @gaddarprabha8984
    @gaddarprabha8984 2 года назад +1

    Why they don't fly from north pole to the south pole ?

    • @wojciechbogdan3361
      @wojciechbogdan3361 2 года назад +4

      It takes a bit less fuel to launch in the direction Earth is already rotating. And things like comm stations coverage and emergency landing sites were probably also of importance. Polar orbit would have required flying over the poles, Russia and China and in case of emergency also possibly landing there. Rescue mission in the middle of a polar winter would have probably been impossible.

    • @bonniemoerdyk9809
      @bonniemoerdyk9809 2 года назад

      What Bogdan said ... AND ... we were in the middle of the Cold War with Russia at that time.

  • @flir67man84
    @flir67man84 2 года назад

    This the same flight of the so called special measuring flight where his gold maps were made from. That steel ball looks interesting.. but why did they put it in a ball? If he accomplished all that training its no wonder .. his knowledge couldn't be touched..

    • @JamesOberg
      @JamesOberg 2 года назад

      Yes, it's supposed to be the flight with the secret Pentagon sensor that located gold-laden sunken Spanish galleons in the Caribbean. The story was a TV 'crockumentary' hoax from the get-go.

  • @ausstraya9120
    @ausstraya9120 2 года назад +1

    I like how the paint on the outside of the re-entry vehicle "United States" etc, stays in tact after 3000 degrees of fire engulfing it upon re-entry. Theatre.

    • @MrDmbright65
      @MrDmbright65 2 года назад

      Maybe because the side of the vehicle doesn't see " 3000 degrees of fire" but i guess you're an expert in aerodynamics on re-entry vehicles. Get lost troll.

    • @codymoe4986
      @codymoe4986 2 года назад +5

      Look up blunt body reentry for a refresher course....
      Here's a hint...notice how the ablative heat shield is on the bottom and not on the sides??
      P.S. If I can buy 500 degree rated engine enamel at my local NAPA, what do you think NASA uses to pretty up their spaceships?

    • @renorailfanning5465
      @renorailfanning5465 2 года назад

      @@codymoe4986 Every one of their questions has a pretty obvious and logical answer. IF... the deniers understood science.
      P.S. I think I know what happened during my reply earlier where I assumed you were a denier.. I thought you posted your reply as a statement, not a question. Hence my response.

    • @ausstraya9120
      @ausstraya9120 2 года назад

      @@codymoe4986 Here is what really happens. You can watch from the 11 minute mark. The whole thing gets fried. ruclips.net/video/XDQnaLPD3s0/видео.html