SCOTT CARPENTER'S MERCURY FLIGHT
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- Опубликовано: 9 окт 2013
- From Episode 5 off our Discovery Channel series "Rocket Science" - Scott Carpenter was cut from different cloth than his fellow Mercury astronauts - an experimentalist whose curiosity created much tension with his NASA superiors, and very nearly cost him his life. (Full 13-part series available at www.foolishearthling.com)
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This man was a boyhood hero of mine, whose hand I finally shook at Age 61!
Good man and a hero! One of the original Seven who put his life on the line during the space race. He may have been 50 seconds late firing his retro Rockets and 250 miles off Target but he got back safely. I heard he was cool as a cucumber eating a candy bar in his raft next to the capsule when they finally got to him. Typical Navy man. Godspeed astronaut and diver Scott Carpenter. Thank you and rest in peace sir.
He was not only an astronaut, but also assigned to Sealab 2 with my friend, from navy experimental dive unit, Bill Douthit.
That's fascinating! I know I'm a day late and a dollar short on this video but thanks for the comment.
Very, very interesting. Thank you.
I was named after him
The 7 were engineers and ambassadors. There was no room in the space program for individual exploration, stick to the flight plan, do your job as defined in narrow parameters, enjoy the accolades. He stepped out of the parameters and was slapped down. Not a reality show, part of a National Cold War effort almost scuttled by his indiscipline.
I always liked Scott Carpenter among and above the Mercury 7. God rest you, Scotty.
Scott got a bad wrap. Yes he used too much fuel, but he also had a whole list of tasks to do. Wally's flight he pretty much just sat there and did nothing, except save fuel and drift. The said he panicked, but looking at his heart rates he did not. Part of his problem you can blame on the early engineering, the thrusters used way too much fuel for what they had to do. Sadly he just didn't fit into the Test Pilot role.
+AkulaSpawn he had scientifc experiments. He was not just a test pilot -he did both therefore he was smarter and better than the rest
@@RobertJamesChinneryH not so sure about smarter and better
Scott was a brilliant man with a brilliant mind who I have had the honor of knowing & interviewing some years back, about 2008. He was a very humble man who played a vital role in not only Aeronautics but that of us eventually getting to the moon! I’ve known and interviewed many celebrities throughout my career and he was one of the very few that made me star struck! RIP my friend! You’re with the stars now!!!
Well he enjoyed the flight sometimes messing about is how we learn thing's 😀😀😂
The fourth
American astronaut to enter space,
Carpenter named his space capsule
Aurora
Seven.
Fired...
The fourth
American astronaut, Carpenter named his space capsule
Aurora
Seven.
The fourth
American astronaut, Carpenter felt fortunate that he was one of the first
American astronauts ever chosen, for at the time of his selection in
NASA s earliest group of astronauts his naval career had seemingly reached a dead end.
Walter
Cronkite was connected with the
NASA manned spaceflight program from the beginning.
Gooo!
I understand both points of view on this. Chris Kraft is right....in those early days test flying was the name of the game. I think Carpenter was ahead of his time though....he had an exploring nature and would have fit in better on some of the later programs....lunar landings/Skylab.
Glad they never let him fly again
Carpenter is an Astro poet. You can tell he'd have happily died up there.
Having met and interviewed the man I can't agree with your conclusion; This was a man who revered life, including his own. That said, your first statement is right on the money.
Michael Lennick What was he like to interview? Must have been a great experience.
And, think of the era. The Soviets would have played the Glenn success as a fluke had this great man died.
How great was NASA upper management??
It was so great that Gordon Cooper wasn’t given a chance to fly the first missions because of his Oklahoma drawl.
Well to be fair, his fellow Mercury Astronuats had some pretty good credentials in execess of their accents. How can you argue that Cooper was a better choice than Shepard? Or Glenn? Or Grissom? Hell Gus was a combat pilot. Gordo was great, but was he better than the first three? Grissom flew 100 combat missions. Cooper flew zero, and the SOFAR charge in Grissiom's capsule never went off- that charge was recovered intact when the capsule was found and pulled out of the ocean, and Grissom never had the bruising that Shirra displayed afer blowing the famous hatch, so I 100% support Grisson's evaluation of the loss of Liberty Bell 7. Gordo didn't fuck up. but neither did Gus.
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Also, why do you think that you score points in a discussion by using street talk? If I really needed to hear that kind of prattle I would go to the driver’s lounge at the local truck stop. Not demeaning Gus, but I talked to someone who worked with all seven and he had some unkind words to say about Grissom. Nevertheless, he was given the fridged fickle finger of fate when the hatch blew. I was in high school during the
Mercury program and followed it pretty closely.
@@farklefuster6876 LOL "score points". You never read _The Right Stuff_ obviously. You didn't "hear" any prattle and if you don't understand the reference to "Lord please don't let me fuck up" from the book (and movie to be honest), that's your failing not mine in recognizing "street talk" from people involved in the Mercurcy program. But the thing that really interests me is that you act as if you you some kind of actual discussion with me on the rather valid points that I frankly lavished on my last comment. You didn't have a single thing to say about any of them although you act like you did. Interesting.
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Yep, I read The Right Stuff. As I recall Mr Wolfe wasn’t exactly kind to John Glenn either. Col Glenn, according to the book, weasled his way into assignments that would draw attention to John Glenn. A Marine flying in the Air Force, the record flight across country, etc. Look that up if you wish. I didn’t quite get the reference to Shepherd’s quote in your post because it there was no reference given. Just because someone uses gutter language to express his lack of vocabulary doesn’t mean that same language should be espoused to the thousands of people reading these comments. Language use belies what ever discipline a person’s intelligence allows.
@@farklefuster6876 On the one hand I don't care what you like or dislike re: language. That's a *You* problem and it is assumptive to place it on me; carry your own baggage, Sport. On the other hand, manufactured outrage presented as moral or intellectual superiority is a _character flaw_ that you are displaying as a badge of honor. I feel it goes without saying that I despise anyone who cherishes their character flaws, doubly so for those who not only cherish them, but expect others to hold them in any regard above the despicable. It _should_ go without saying, as that is a childish outlook I describe as being below my respect, but in your case I want to make my standpoint clear beyond misunderstanding, as you hold yourself more intelligent than your actions suggest. Do you understand?
Nasa management clearly was in power to decide who flew and who remained grounded, in my humble hopinion these were really fine men, Carpenter should have been given another try, he was very fit phisically and could have space walked easily during the gemini era
Agreed. I think he was ahead of his time, given what the goals of Project Mercury were. He'd have been a good person to have on a long endurance mission like Gemini 5 or Gemini 7, and in terms of science, Apollos 15-17. But by then, his reputation was tarnished. The Gemini 9 noted that he was 'history', by the time they were brought onto the programme in 1963.
fairplay to Kraft, so why was Carpenter chosen to fly, whos decision was it?
Ray Dodge Grissom was a test pilot, his heart rate was always above 150, he blew the hatch in a panic and almost drowned and lost his craft. Kraft and co were asses in a lot of ways.
if Grissom did blow the hatch, why did he do so, what was he panicking about. he was just sitting there waiting to get picked up?
He didnt blew the hatch, they retrieved the capsule from the bottom of the sea some yrs ago and investigated it. It was not grissoms fault, it was a faulty mechanism, triggered by watering probes...
Paul Horn Link?
No one can prove that he actually blew the hatch himself, by conscious decision.
Mercury 7 not 6
there was a fault in the rcs so he had to use the manual control it is well known fact nowdays...they screwed him ...
This pisses me off. Carpenter was well within in mission parameters, if he wasnt there wouldnt have been a ship to pick him up. They chose these men for a reason. Carpenter knew exactly what he was doing, and what his craft was capable and spec'd to do. Chris Craft, wasnt a pilot.. he didnt serve.. he was an engineer, who cant handle things that arent rigid.. and there a reason they put Pilots, Servicemen, Flexible of mind, Outside of the Box thinking men into those capsules. Calling him a poor Test Pilot.. is absolute Bullshit. And taking his Wings.. was disgusting.
The Only satisfaction i have, is knowing.. that he gave a tightwad control-freak engineer.. a existential crisis. Carpenter didnt spec out.. Craft did.
another control freak.. whatever your motives. I take pleasure knowing that there is always going to be something out of place in your life. id say enjoy it.. but i know you cant. And that makes me very, very happy.
Cronkite - we didn't know anything, so we jumped to conclusions and made it up.
Maybe "journalism" wasn't so different back then, after all.
Dressed in a silver space suit, the fourth
American astronaut appears ready to enter space.
He is
Malcolm Scott Carpenter.
I think he had a good time up there and if can't do that and your job what's the point,, ;-)
carpenter did NOT know where he was. He was lost and he almost killed himself because he was too busy sight seeing and using fuel. It was failure of the man because the man ran the ship out of fuel. the machine performed flawlessly...even when it ran out fuel and re entered the atmosphere in a barely survivable angle....no thanks to ole Carp. but hey, a good story, right?
Not so sure about all of that. You sound like you're putting all the blame on him. One problem, sounds like he was assigned too much to try to do in that period of time.
@@kbanghart nope. It was all on him...
and everyone assigned to the mission agreed. It's all documented.
@@kepler240 and I'm sure they all bought into it, probably because their careers were on the line. Back then engineers were notorious for making life hard.
U-Toob 'spurt LOL
There were ships to pick him up werent there? Because Test Pilots work within a frame of what is capable, not rigid precision. Thats why we dont put Chris Crafts in aircrafts. He pissed off a rigid engineer for doing his job within the specs allowed. When Carpenter said he knew where he was.. he meant it. They never even lost the tele-link to him. Because he was within the specified LZ. They gave him wiggle room.. he used it, because thats what human pilots do.. and they hung him for it.
Kraft is an asshole.. but he gets a pass to, because i doubt he even realized it.
Not competent astronaut, he didnt know what the hell he was doing, they had to talk him through retro and he was late and in the wrong direction he nearly killed himself, he never should have been chosen
Krantz and others set Carpenter up...they were just jealous because he was smarter than them-prove he did something wrong and it was not a mechanical error-it is all slanderous politics
Mmm yeah I don't know about all that
This guy was not qualified to be an astronaut, let alone one of the first. Thankfully, the engineers regained control of the program. More Carpenter type astronauts would have wrecked the program.
@Dragomir Ronilac I believe that Tom Wolfe captured the over importance of the head shrinkers in the early space program (Mercury). Their role was minimized and that of the Engineers was increased as the program went on (Gemini and Apollo). The program stopped picking people like Carpenter and Glenn, who charmed the socks off of everyone but were weal technically, and started picking people with a stronger technical background like the Group II astronauts, of which the most stunning example is probably Neil Armstrong.