Astronauts: United States Project Mercury, ca. 1960

Astronauts: United States Project Mercury, ca. 1960 - National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 1151850 / Local Identifier 255-HQ-9 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (10/01/1958 - ). This film documents the selection of the original seven astronauts for Project Mercury: Lieutenant Malcolm S. (Scott) Carpenter, Captain Leroy G. (Gordon) Cooper, Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Captain Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, Lieutenant Commander Walter M. Schirra, Lieutenant Commander Alan Shepard, and Captain Donald K. (Deke) Slayton. The footage shows the selection criteria and process, the astronauts in training, and the beginnings of our knowledge of manned space flight.

[@thomasthomas2418]

I remember watching these documentaries at 7:00 in the morning when I was growing up in Daytona Beach, Florida.
They inspired my life long love of manned space flight.

[@Zapruderfilm1963]

Thank you for the upload!!!

[@shanewalters4632]

The sound track somehow typifies the cold war as it was then.

[@ynp1978]

Good stuff!

[@jenniferbice8998]

I've never seen this before. Interesting. It looks like something that would have been shown in schools.

[@sandratessem9980]

Thor worked on Project Mercury 1958 - 1963

[@hoedenbesteller]

As you can also see in " The right stuff" a lot of these so called " tests" where pretty strange and not always very scientific.