Mercury-Atlas 9 - Historical Footage, Full Mission, Narration, HD, Gordon Cooper - Faith 7

Documentary about the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, entirely based on historical narration, mission audio and footage. The full mission is covered, showing crew, training, launch, beacon release, slow scan tv tests, orbit reentry and splashdown. Mercury-Atlas 9 was the final crewed space mission of the U.S. Mercury program, launched on May 15, 1963. The spacecraft, named Faith 7, completed 22 Earth orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper, then a United States Air Force major. This mission marks the last time an American was launched alone to conduct an entirely solo orbital mission. _______________________________________________________ CHAPTERS 00:00 Crew and Training 04:20 Mission Objectives 07:12 Launch Preparations 10:20 Mercury-Atlas 9 Launch 15:14 Orbit 1 16:54 Orbit 2 17:45 Orbit 3 18:39 Orbit 4 to 5 20:59 Orbit 6 to 8 22:38 Orbit 9 to 14 24:15 Orbit 15 24:55 Orbit 16 to 18 25:42 Orbit 19 to 21 28:00 Orbit 22 28:30 Reentry and Recovery 31:26 Cooper Postflight Remarks ______________________________________________________ The footage was AI upscaled (Topaz AI) on some segments, besides the usual color correction. Ambient audio was recreated based on historical elements. Sequences are shown in proper mission context as much as possible. Historical narration (from mission commentary, NASA documentaries and progress reports, and TV and radio broadcasts sourced from LM5 are used in an attempt to capture the feeling of the times. Language and attitudes should be seen in that context. Research, cleanup, editing, and processing by Retro Space HD. ======================================= A special thanks to the channel supporters (   / retrospacehd   ): Andrew Hamburg David Graves GSmith Gary Smith Gene Dorr Gio Pagliari Gort58 Jack Johnson Jan Strzelecki Jeff Pleimling Jules E Kevin Spencer Killraven Marco Zambianchi Mark Kirkman Michael Pennington Nathan Koga Popio Rick Durr Ryan Hardy Scott Manley Stephan ======================================== #mercury #scottcarpenter #aurora7