MESSENGER Mercury Flyby #3 Simulation

Freedom 7 Launch

Mercury MESSENGER Flyby Preview, Oct 2008

Hinode Views Transit of Mercury

Instrumentation Simulation of MESSENGER's First Mercury Flyby

Delta 2 launch of Mercury MESSENGER

More MESSENGER movies

Aurora 7 and M. Scott Carpenter

Newsreel: Space Triumph! Glenn Flight Thrills World, 1962/02/22

The Voyage of Friendship 7

The John Glenn Story

1963 documentary from the National Archives. Embed disabled; watch it on Google Video.

Newsreel: Enos the Chimp on Mercury Atlas 5

Project Mercury (NASA Documentary, mid 1960s)

Gus Grissom: Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3

This is the 200th post to SpaceGet.



Memorial to Virgil "Gus" Grissom, with footage from his flight on Mercury-Redstone 4 / Liberty Bell 7, including the sinking of the capsule (caused by the hatch blowing prematurely, though Grissom had not hit the detonation plunger); also with footage from his return to space aboard Gemini 3, and a photo of him boarding AS-204/Apollo 1 before his death in a command module fire.

Freedom 7 - NASA TV background

NASA TV documentary with More focus on Mercury program background, preparations, and training.

Freedom 7 - Commentary by Alan Shepard

Mercury Abort / Parachute Test, 1959

"Trailblazer in Space" - Ham the Chimpanzee, Mercury Redstone MR-2.

Mercury-Redstone 2 with Ham the Chimp

Ham the Chimpanzee on Mercury-Redstone 2. Music added by YouTube user.

Newsreel: Mercury Redstone 1A

UIP newsreel on first successful unmanned suborbital Mercury-Redstone launch: