Launch of Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) - Enhanced
Video from the channel AshRayCure about Mercury-Redstone 3, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 3:56. Language: English. Video type: Launch.
Digitally enhanced version of footage of the launch of the MR-3 mission, with Alan Shepard aboard the Freedom 7 capsule.
The audio preserves fragments of Shepard's reports during the ascent: cabin pressure at 14 psi and then 8 psi, oxygen nominal, and an acceleration of 1.8 g.
The reports heard record no incidents during the ascent.