Aurora 7 1962 Mercury-Atlas 7 NASA Documentary
Video from the channel The Federal File about Mercury-Atlas 7, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 29:07. Language: English. Video type: Archive footage.
What it shows
This is NASA's documentary film about the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission, piloted by Scott Carpenter aboard the Aurora 7 capsule. The narration begins at Kitty Hawk, drawing a parallel between the birth of aviation and that of the space age. It recalls the suborbital flights of Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom and John Glenn's orbital flight in Friendship 7, and then details Aurora 7's scientific program: star photometry, zodiacal light and solar corona observations, horizon photographs for MIT and the Naval Research Laboratory, cloud photographs, a colored balloon to study visibility for future orbital rendezvous, and a weightless fluids experiment.