For those that haven't seen a mercury capsule in a museum, they're not much bigger than the astronauts inside. It can fit into the bed of a pickup truck.
@@arcosprey4811 I guess I was pointing out how before this he was very relaxed and it was almost like he was following a straight forward and mundane procedure
I had never heard Shepard’s voice transmission before, and I was so surprised by the great quality! Almost sounded like a reporter/journalist commentating over the launch, so calm and informative.
Oh please please PLEASE make more of these. Of course you couldn't do full mission videos for anything other than Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7, but you could certainly do launch and mission highlights. And of course every single mission has a story that deserves to be told
This is absolutely amazingly animated and done. I felt so immersed and had my heart pounding on that reentry. Great shots really felt like I was watching a documentary or movie. Well done!
This took place exactly 61 years ago today. A month after I was born. I always wanted to hear the complete recording of the of this very historic event. Only 16min. of suborbital space flight but a very important step for the space program at that time. Thank you so much for this video. I was driving to work at 4:00 in the morning when I heard this on the radio and by sheer coincidence I discovered this channel tonight with your video about Freedom 7 and Alan Shepard. Again thank you and subscribed right away.
I remember watching this when I was 5 years old...my Mom got me up early in the morning to watch. She was even cooler a year later, when I was in 1st grade, to call me off school so I could watch John Glenn blast off.
I was six and we watched all the coverage. I don't remember, but, we always watched the space coverage, and I remember Mercury capsule toys. This video gives a fantastic perspective. Wow!
I think that sometimes, amidst the focus on him being the first American in space, it’s easy to forget that he was also testing and validating the systems, much like if he was testing a new airplane design.
So immersive and almost feeling what the astronaut is experiencing, especially the 11,6 G 😱. Great Job to you and those pioneers of the space exploration.
Historical fact with some good animations, worthy of being placed in schools to remember the event. Seeing how everything happened in space makes it much better, the engineering of the time how it worked. Very good for you.
Thank you for this. I was five years old when Dad woke us up to watch this launch. I remember the delays and being surprised when it was all over so quickly. But mostly I remember my dad and how excited he was. You gave me a moment. Be well.
This was just awesome. That fifteen minute flight always struck me as sort of, well, trivial. This visualization makes it clear that it was a stunning experience.
It's a really overlooked part of the Mercury flight profile, which is weird considering a faulty landing bag deploy signal is what caused concern about John Glenn's heat shield being loose.
@@CbassProductions and probably why they no longer designed a landing bag into future spacecraft, faulty signal or not. I do know however that Glenn's flight was the catalyst that redefined the Flight Director role, making his word the word of God during a mission, to where nobody in NASA management, not even the President of the United States, can reverse a decision he makes in real time. An absolute necessity in Mission Control
Hearing the actual voice recording I'm really impressed with the job Ted Levine did playing him on From the Earth to the Moon. His recreation of this flight in particular is spot-on.
Thanks for creating such a great animation along with the inset of Shepherd. Fantastic! Great job.👍. 11.6 gees on reentry, wow!!! I second one of the other comments that was made. Please create a Gemini mission. That would be amazing.
Shepard was the first American in space and hung in for 10 years and was able to walk on the moon! It could only have been better if he had flown Apollo 17 in 1972 where he could have been the last Ameican on the moon for 50+ years.
A very nice sequence. I liked the fading of the exhaust plume as the ambient air pressure decreased. One technical quibble. The periscope view shown here resembled a monochrome TV display. In reality it's purely an optical instrument, like a wide angle monocular. The view would be as 'live' as the view through the porthole. It was surprising that, given the overall sophistication, there was no splash effect at all. The capsule was made to simply merge into the water without disturbance. On balance, a great simulation.
Alan Shepard's periscope did appear monochrome to him. He had inserted a filter over the periscope to cut out sun glare during the delays on the launch pad, but had forgotten to take the filter off prior to launch.
What I find interesting is that the astronauts that flew multiple missions said that this Redstone rocket and the Atlas beat the crap out of them a lot more than the Saturn V...several of them said that you could not believe how smooth flying the Saturn V was.
I saw a dummy Mercury capsule at the KSC when I visited in January and boy are they tiny. There was no way I could fit inside, let alone with a pressure suit. These astronauts were just built different.
Suborbital reentries are usually loads more brutal than orbital ones, because you come in at a much steeper angle and encounter thicker air at a higher speed
@@RobinClaassen Np! Another good example is the recent Soyuz failure and abort. Because the astronauts were on a high suborbital trajectory they clocked I think 12 G's on reentry. If you search "Scott Manley ballistic reentry" he has a good vid on the subject.
For your work on the OLT: The YT channel "Mr Best" has identified the winch as a NOV ADS-30Q, made by NOV Rig Technologies. He proposes the name "Red Hulk." The video lists many of the specs. (Please note, that's NOT his camera work, it's the source video.) This company offers an automated drawworks system for use on ocean oil rigs. Apparently, using an AC motor on a drawworks is unconventional but allows them to offer "active heave drilling." This gives us a hint as to why SpaceX chose this winch. A line in the company literature, "due to active-heave compensation, the drilling operational window is increased by allowing drilling programs to continue in heavier seas than conventional drawworks" indicates to me such a system is meant to handle sudden increases or decreases in the load force. To be exact, the sudden increase of a Super Heavy settling onto the catcher arms. I'm applying the active compensation use to the OLT on land. Whether the tower is moving (an actual oil rig at sea) or the load is moving (on land, a Super Heavy) the sudden increase in load factor is the point. (A drawworks is simply the hoisting machinery of a rotary drilling rig.)
Nice modeling and animation. Just a note: Liftoff vibration looked good when the camera was close to the rocket, but as the camera pulls back, it should have faded away. While this may have been intentional, it detracts from the subject being viewed.
The 3 retro rockets that fire were meant to slow the capsule down on orbital flights to reenter the atmosphere. Since the redstone rocket was not capable of sending the capsule to orbit they were not nessecery for this mission. They did need to be tested to see if they would fire in space for later orbital missions using the bigger Atlas rockets. Normally on an orbital flight they would fire the rockets in the retrograde direction, bringing the orbit path into the atmosphere. Since a suborbital arc is already steep and reentry harder on the astronaut (here he experiences over 10 g's) they needed to angle the capsule for "retro" burn so the change in velocity didn't make the reentry profile too steep to be safe. This was accomplished by firing the thrust at an angle between the retrograde and radial out directions. Had they fired them true retrograde on this flight Shepard may have pulled too many g's or burned up from falling too fast. Ultimately if the retrorockets failed the capsule would have still made it back to Earth, just landing in a different place. In addition they angled the heatshield up like this on all flights to jettison the retro-rocket pack in a way that made sure that it would not collide with the capsule and damage the heatshield. On orbital missions they would pitch the heatshield up AFTER the retro burn for jettisoning the pack, before pitching the heatshield to face the prograde direction. Since this flight was so short they really only had time to test the manual RCS control (pitch yaw roll) and then use the fly by wire system to orient the craft to the attitude it needed to be a minute or two later for the retro rocket test.
Well, he was flying for a little while … all by himself. I called that a success. Well done, freedom7. But man, that reentry…… “OUTCH AT 11.5 G’s” damn that’s a man for staying awake through that!
excellent well done ,my only quibble is that you show porthole window for the ship,If I remember right the first two did not have any ,but still very well done .
could do with a lot less camera shake during launch, nice though. I was very surprised to see that heatshield skirt mechanism. Alltogether, awesome animation!
I agree with you on the excessive launch vibration. Even the actual on-board filming of Shepard was very steady, so that added shaking in the animation shouldn't have been necessary. Other than that the animation was fantastic!
amazing animation! I wish we could see a Vostok animation of the same quality, you'd probably get more views and growth, because many people of many countries know Yuri Gagarin and see him as a worldwide hero, and i know you'd be capable of something like that.
Amazing. Such bravery!
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For those that haven't seen a mercury capsule in a museum, they're not much bigger than the astronauts inside. It can fit into the bed of a pickup truck.
Alan's strained "OK" repetition as he endures the deceleration forces during re-entry makes it sound very real.
Well it was what he was actually saying since its real audio lol
@@arcosprey4811 I guess I was pointing out how before this he was very relaxed and it was almost like he was following a straight forward and mundane procedure
Yeah like the military never trains over 9g
@@jaypaint4855 he pretty much did 12 albeit for only a few seconds.
@@jaypaint4855 The military does take their pilots higher than 9g on the ground to force them to pass out during training.
"Ah, roger, liftoff and the clock has started."
-- For a second there, I was thinking "was that Insprucker??!?"
Insbrucker is a bit of a bridge back to that era.
@@HylanderSB his voice is very 50s i love every second of it
I had never heard Shepard’s voice transmission before, and I was so surprised by the great quality! Almost sounded like a reporter/journalist commentating over the launch, so calm and informative.
I love how C-Bass made sure to include the washer floating in the cabin at 5:17. I love the fine details!
Oh please please PLEASE make more of these. Of course you couldn't do full mission videos for anything other than Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7, but you could certainly do launch and mission highlights. And of course every single mission has a story that deserves to be told
This is absolutely amazingly animated and done. I felt so immersed and had my heart pounding on that reentry. Great shots really felt like I was watching a documentary or movie. Well done!
This took place exactly 61 years ago today. A month after I was born. I always wanted to hear the complete recording of the of this very historic event. Only 16min. of suborbital space flight but a very important step for the space program at that time. Thank you so much for this video. I was driving to work at 4:00 in the morning when I heard this on the radio and by sheer coincidence I discovered this channel tonight with your video about Freedom 7 and Alan Shepard. Again thank you and subscribed right away.
I remember watching this when I was 5 years old...my Mom got me up early in the morning to watch. She was even cooler a year later, when I was in 1st grade, to call me off school so I could watch John Glenn blast off.
Amazing as always
I was six and we watched all the coverage. I don't remember, but, we always watched the space coverage, and I remember Mercury capsule toys. This video gives a fantastic perspective. Wow!
If you showed this to the people in charge of this program they would conclude that there were aliens with good cameras. Amazing work as always!
Listening to the dialog, it's pure test pilot all the way, all business. Also; 11.66 G, ouch!
I think that sometimes, amidst the focus on him being the first American in space, it’s easy to forget that he was also testing and validating the systems, much like if he was testing a new airplane design.
So immersive and almost feeling what the astronaut is experiencing, especially the 11,6 G 😱. Great Job to you and those pioneers of the space exploration.
really great stuff! this is stuff that should go on a screen in a museum
Very cool. As someone who lived through and followed closely the early era of space exploration, I appreciate your video very much. Hope to see more.
Why am i just now discovering this channel!?!?! Awesome work!!!
Historical fact with some good animations, worthy of being placed in schools to remember the event. Seeing how everything happened in space makes it much better, the engineering of the time how it worked.
Very good for you.
Thank you for this. I was five years old when Dad woke us up to watch this launch. I remember the delays and being surprised when it was all over so quickly. But mostly I remember my dad and how excited he was. You gave me a moment. Be well.
Excellent, I would have liked a modern day spaceX type of telemetry bar along the base but still excellent, thanks.
Stunning job. I have listened to that recording for over 50 years, but never really envisioned it until your animation. Good work.
brilliant animation , thank you very much
This was just awesome. That fifteen minute flight always struck me as sort of, well, trivial. This visualization makes it clear that it was a stunning experience.
Thank you so much! THIS is how this historical event should be taught. No longer a story, but an *experience*!
Y'all do FREAKING AMAZING work! Beautifully animated, and edited.
Excellent, I was a little kid when this happened and didn't see it.
This is so nice to relive it in real time.
Thank you.
This channel is so underrated! Great stuff!
Exceptionally impressive visual effects! Just frick'n wow! Great job!
12:00 I've never seen the Mercury capsule with this before. Fantastic work
It's a really overlooked part of the Mercury flight profile, which is weird considering a faulty landing bag deploy signal is what caused concern about John Glenn's heat shield being loose.
@@CbassProductions and probably why they no longer designed a landing bag into future spacecraft, faulty signal or not.
I do know however that Glenn's flight was the catalyst that redefined the Flight Director role, making his word the word of God during a mission, to where nobody in NASA management, not even the President of the United States, can reverse a decision he makes in real time. An absolute necessity in Mission Control
just brilliant, thanks so much for this.
Wow- this explained a LOT! Great job!
Hearing the actual voice recording I'm really impressed with the job Ted Levine did playing him on From the Earth to the Moon. His recreation of this flight in particular is spot-on.
You nailed it, having the internal camera there is just genius. Great work!
No way! Bro you are a God of animation! We appreciate you and thank you so much for this beautiful eye candy!
These animations are so good the effort put into them is amazing!
This is amazing!
If you don't have an idea for a next video you could make a Gemini \ Agena mission or the Soyuz-Apollo mission.
Gemini DEFINITELY needs more love
I was barely six years old...just right to tenderly begin a 12-year fascination with our space program!
Amazing video Corey, as always. Beautiful integration of then and now.
Thanks for creating such a great animation along with the inset of Shepherd. Fantastic! Great job.👍. 11.6 gees on reentry, wow!!!
I second one of the other comments that was made. Please create a Gemini mission.
That would be amazing.
Really enjoyable. I remember that day. Nerve-wracking even for a kid during the wait after launch, trying to follow on TV.
Outstanding work. Sheppard later played golf on the moon. Not a Boy Scout like Glenn, but a hero of mine.
Thank you 👍
Excellent! (Might want to improve that splashless splash-down!)
Amzing work as always!
Amazing Work!
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Wow absolutely incredible, felt like I was in the capsule. Stunning work
Marvelous animation!
As always, thanks much for sharing.
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Outstanding animation. It really brings the mission to life.
WOW, great work dude
Superb video.
Shepard was the first American in space and hung in for 10 years and was able to walk on the moon! It could only have been better if he had flown Apollo 17 in 1972 where he could have been the last Ameican on the moon for 50+ years.
A very nice sequence.
I liked the fading of the exhaust plume as the ambient air pressure decreased.
One technical quibble. The periscope view shown here resembled a monochrome TV display. In reality it's purely an optical instrument, like a wide angle monocular. The view would be as 'live' as the view through the porthole.
It was surprising that, given the overall sophistication, there was no splash effect at all. The capsule was made to simply merge into the water without disturbance.
On balance, a great simulation.
Alan Shepard's periscope did appear monochrome to him. He had inserted a filter over the periscope to cut out sun glare during the delays on the launch pad, but had forgotten to take the filter off prior to launch.
Absolutely phenomenal work!! This is fantastic!!
very good! congratulations for all team!
So fantastic, loved every second of it! 🚀🤩
Great job Corey, this is gives us new and amazing views of a breakthrough moment in US space history, thank you!
Are you kidding me? What an amazing video. Someone should hire you to make movies for Hollywood or something.
5:16. Even the washer floating in apogee. Beautiful stuff
Marvelous!
Excellent animation. I congratulate you for this work! 😀
Wow, what a great job 👍🏻💪🏻
That was an amazing recreation! Well done!
That was very impressive! I don't remember Alan Shepherd's flight but I do remember John Glenn's launch.
Super job with the animation! congratulations.
What I find interesting is that the astronauts that flew multiple missions said that this Redstone rocket and the Atlas beat the crap out of them a lot more than the Saturn V...several of them said that you could not believe how smooth flying the Saturn V was.
Amazing drone footage.
Excellent!
Great work. Well Done.
I saw a dummy Mercury capsule at the KSC when I visited in January and boy are they tiny. There was no way I could fit inside, let alone with a pressure suit. These astronauts were just built different.
Jesus, he experienced 11.6 G's during re-entry?!
Suborbital reentries are usually loads more brutal than orbital ones, because you come in at a much steeper angle and encounter thicker air at a higher speed
@@dsdy1205 Huh, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining that.
@@RobinClaassen Np! Another good example is the recent Soyuz failure and abort. Because the astronauts were on a high suborbital trajectory they clocked I think 12 G's on reentry. If you search "Scott Manley ballistic reentry" he has a good vid on the subject.
I like how you can hear his tongue get 'heavier' :)
Check " Gus Grissom struggles rentry" out
Incredible work.
amazing work again
I remember it like it was yesterday.
Excellently done!
Nice work!
This is incredible
Mesmerizing. Thanks!
Amazing job!
Very well done, i love your work!
For your work on the OLT: The YT channel "Mr Best" has identified the winch as a NOV ADS-30Q, made by NOV Rig Technologies. He proposes the name "Red Hulk." The video lists many of the specs. (Please note, that's NOT his camera work, it's the source video.)
This company offers an automated drawworks system for use on ocean oil rigs. Apparently, using an AC motor on a drawworks is unconventional but allows them to offer "active heave drilling." This gives us a hint as to why SpaceX chose this winch. A line in the company literature, "due to active-heave compensation, the drilling operational window is increased by allowing drilling programs to continue in heavier seas than conventional drawworks" indicates to me such a system is meant to handle sudden increases or decreases in the load force. To be exact, the sudden increase of a Super Heavy settling onto the catcher arms.
I'm applying the active compensation use to the OLT on land. Whether the tower is moving (an actual oil rig at sea) or the load is moving (on land, a Super Heavy) the sudden increase in load factor is the point.
(A drawworks is simply the hoisting machinery of a rotary drilling rig.)
Wow! Impressive. Thank you.
Brilliant work my man👍
Awesome animation. Well done.
Alan doing over 11g: "okey... okey". Such a a super human!
Excellent animation!
I had no idea the was what the landing bag looked like. Fascinating.
Amazing! Thanks a lot
I really wish I knew how to make such good renders and animations
This is outstanding and they should give you an Academy Award for it
Nice modeling and animation. Just a note: Liftoff vibration looked good when the camera was close to the rocket, but as the camera pulls back, it should have faded away. While this may have been intentional, it detracts from the subject being viewed.
Fantastic - well done!!
The 3 retro rockets that fire were meant to slow the capsule down on orbital flights to reenter the atmosphere. Since the redstone rocket was not capable of sending the capsule to orbit they were not nessecery for this mission. They did need to be tested to see if they would fire in space for later orbital missions using the bigger Atlas rockets. Normally on an orbital flight they would fire the rockets in the retrograde direction, bringing the orbit path into the atmosphere. Since a suborbital arc is already steep and reentry harder on the astronaut (here he experiences over 10 g's) they needed to angle the capsule for "retro" burn so the change in velocity didn't make the reentry profile too steep to be safe. This was accomplished by firing the thrust at an angle between the retrograde and radial out directions. Had they fired them true retrograde on this flight Shepard may have pulled too many g's or burned up from falling too fast. Ultimately if the retrorockets failed the capsule would have still made it back to Earth, just landing in a different place.
In addition they angled the heatshield up like this on all flights to jettison the retro-rocket pack in a way that made sure that it would not collide with the capsule and damage the heatshield. On orbital missions they would pitch the heatshield up AFTER the retro burn for jettisoning the pack, before pitching the heatshield to face the prograde direction. Since this flight was so short they really only had time to test the manual RCS control (pitch yaw roll) and then use the fly by wire system to orient the craft to the attitude it needed to be a minute or two later for the retro rocket test.
Well, he was flying for a little while … all by himself. I called that a success. Well done, freedom7. But man, that reentry…… “OUTCH AT 11.5 G’s” damn that’s a man for staying awake through that!
on screen telemetry/ stats would be nice, well done!
excellent well done ,my only quibble is that you show porthole window for the ship,If I remember right the first two did not have any ,but still very well done .
Alan Shepard's capsule had two small portholes. All others had a singular rectangular window directly in front of the pilot's face.
@@CbassProductions I stand corrected had my facts mixed up :)
A very well done!
could do with a lot less camera shake during launch, nice though. I was very surprised to see that heatshield skirt mechanism. Alltogether, awesome animation!
I agree with you on the excessive launch vibration. Even the actual on-board filming of Shepard was very steady, so that added shaking in the animation shouldn't have been necessary. Other than that the animation was fantastic!
I have a feeling it was to visually show the difference between first phase and his call of "a lot smoother now"
Amazing video. Bravo 👏 👌 ✋
amazing animation! I wish we could see a Vostok animation of the same quality, you'd probably get more views and growth, because many people of many countries know Yuri Gagarin and see him as a worldwide hero, and i know you'd be capable of something like that.