An Evening With Two Mercury Astronauts

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An Evening With Two Mercury Astronauts

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

13 жыл бұрын

The 2011 John H. Glenn lecture featured a moderated conversation with two of NASA's original Mercury astronauts: John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. Fifty years after the first human spaceflights, they shared stories about their selection as astronauts, the first human spaceflights, and their careers in and out of spaceflight. This lecture was presented in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin IMAX(r) Theater on June 23, 2011.

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@jshepard152 6 жыл бұрын

Glenn is 89 here. It's absolutely amazing how sharp he was at that age, recalling technical aspects of the Mercury program from 50 years before.

@BradWatsonMiami 3 жыл бұрын

GOD=7_4, 7/4=July 4th or 7 April 30 AD when Jesus(74=J10+E5+S19+U21+S19) the Jewish(74) Messiah(74) was nailed on(74) the Cross(74=C3+R18+O15+S19+S19). Freemasons led NASA and they encoded GOD=7_4 in many ways: 7 Mercury Astronauts & 4 weren't Air Force/4 weren't Navy. Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo & 4 missions later, Apollo 11 was the first to land on Moon at 4:17 EDT. Apollo 13 miraculously returned to Earth on 4/17. Alan(4 letters) B.(1) Shepard(7), John(4) F.(1) Kennedy(7), Yuri(4) A.(1) Gagarin(7). Jesus' real Birthday was 4/17/6 BC. Space Shuttle held 7 crew/4 more than previous Apollo. Orion holds 4 astronauts. Neil Armstrong = kneel arm strong. Buzz Aldrin is a 33rd Degree Mason(47) and he took communion after landing on the Moon and before walking on it. GOD=7_4 Theory at GOD704.fandom.com & Seal #2 at 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 is part of Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

@coldformer1 3 жыл бұрын

@@BradWatsonMiami did you eat those magic shrooms on your pizza?

@toreibjo 9 жыл бұрын

Makes me wanna cry that this has only 7460 views since June 2011. While all kinds of unimportant nonsensical human manure easily surpasses millions in here. Watch this if you are the tiniest bit of a world-patriot. It contains at least two, of the worlds biggest pioneers and heroes.

@yassm 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Such an amazing thing we have an interview with two heroes. Those guys were pioneers. They ventured in the unknown

@BradWatsonMiami 3 жыл бұрын

"John Glenn born 1921" was part of Seal #3: Unified String Theory: 21 or 19 Dimensions & Aspects of Spacetime - Physics' 'Theory of 'Everything'. See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 was added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

@michaelbarnhart2593 3 жыл бұрын

We are a world of the 10 second attention span. Tik-Tok is more relevant to the new generation now.

@scottp6539 3 жыл бұрын

It's sad how Our Country and society has become a joke. People aren't interested in the facts and amazing history anymore. Today's people are just interested in idiot people that dance on stage look pretty and have no talent.

@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of people have cottoned on the fact that they may not have went. That could be the reason.

@JordySchaap 7 жыл бұрын

RIP to both of them. Can't believe that such important hero's are not living anymore. In fact all the Mercury astronauts are past away sadly. God bless them

@BradWatsonMiami 3 жыл бұрын

@SimplyTakuma 3 жыл бұрын

But now, i see more videos about Apollo 11, 13 and Gene Kranz, the Blackbird SR-71 Pilots and more, love it also to see Adam Savage (from Mythbusters) is visiting those places on his own channel (Tested its called).

@denisecampbell6736 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s sad they’re no longer w/us, but thankfully we have things like this to keep their Stories & Legacy alive.

@garymaxwellian9085 Жыл бұрын

Two wonderful senior citizens. Clear logical thinkers and sharp as a tack. I guess that's what got them in to space in the first place

@annebowman5954 4 жыл бұрын

It was so wonderful to hear what they had to say, and I love the humorous observations they made about the training.. What amazing men..

@philmoore71 4 жыл бұрын

2020 - still fantastic

@mandaltby 11 жыл бұрын

Wow what a great show, 2 legends talking so openly like they are in my living room, thanks so much for the upload .

@chap666ish 10 жыл бұрын

I wish you could like this twice. Or ten times.

@theeverything611 8 жыл бұрын

Godspeed Scott Carpenter and long live John Glenn

@escalera601 3 жыл бұрын

Scott Carpenter was one of the more ethereal, sentient, multi-dimensional and interesting of the seven. If I had an opportunity to have dinner with any of the seven Mercury astronauts, it would have been Carpenter. R.I.P.

@gregorykayne6054 3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@ConalRF 3 жыл бұрын

"60 years ago in 1961" - 70 years now. 😬 How quickly time passes.

@gregorykayne6054 3 жыл бұрын

Ooops! 2031 will be 70 years.

@abrahamedelstein4806 5 жыл бұрын

All the old man jokes John Glenn had to take and he outlived them all.

@larryhall2805 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Interesting that during testing for astronaut selection, Glenn and Carpenter were the top in regards to physical fitness. Fitting that they lived the longest.

@mikeyramone33 10 жыл бұрын

in an era where a guy who rides a bike in france is a hero,it really brings a tear to my eye to see two (now 1. scott just passed) whats funny is how much they did before mercury! and never forget all those at Edwards air base! yeager,crossfield,white!!!!

@gjp3985 5 жыл бұрын

Chemical engineer and NASA’s oldest active astronot at age 62, Don Petitt says, “I’d go to the moon in a nanosecond. The problem is we don’t have the technology to do that anymore. We used to but we destroyed that technology and it’s a painful process to build it back again.”

@bankcrisis 11 жыл бұрын

Utterly brilliant, thankyou

@kev3d 7 жыл бұрын

Sad. All the Mercury 7 are now gone, as are almost half of the Gemini and several of the Apollo Astronauts including Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan. We are losing our heroes, and more sadly, we don't have new ones.

@sanborns 2 жыл бұрын

Two true American heroes ....

@nematic5755 7 жыл бұрын

Well all I can add is: How lucky to be born at just the right time. To be part of the "Right Stuff".

@MrThebirddog 3 жыл бұрын

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@BradWatsonMiami 3 жыл бұрын

GOD=7_4, 7/4=July 4th or 7 April 30 AD when Jesus(74=J10+E5+S19+U21+S19) the Jewish(74) Messiah(74) was nailed on(74) the Cross(74=C3+R18+O15+S19+S19). Freemasons led NASA and they encoded GOD=7_4 in many ways: 7 Mercury Astronauts & 4 weren't Air Force/4 weren't Navy. Apollo 4 was the first unmanned Saturn V flight, Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo & 4 missions later, Apollo 11 was the first to land on Moon at 4:17:40 EDT. Apollo 13 miraculously returned to Earth on 4/17. Alan(4 letters) B.(1) Shepard(7), John(4) F.(1) Kennedy(7), Yuri(4) A.(1) Gagarin(7). Jesus' real Birthday was 4/17/6 BC. Space Shuttle held 7 crew/4 more than previous Apollo. Orion holds 4 astronauts. Neil Armstrong = kneel arm strong. Buzz Aldrin is a 33rd Degree Mason(47) and he took communion after landing on the Moon and before walking on it. GOD=7_4 Theory is Seal #2 at 7seals.blogspot.com . Only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 was added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

@marnev5245 5 жыл бұрын

Was a pleasure to watch this video! Thank you very much for sharing! 😃👍

@djjbzombies 12 жыл бұрын

I do agree the price we pay to get astros to ISS and back is ridiculous. However the shuttle was old old tech and old hardware. We have the tech now to build a much better and much more efficient system for orbit.

@tarful58 7 жыл бұрын

My heros. Mercury 7 Astronauts.

@igorflexus9493 7 жыл бұрын

Heroes! Thank you for uploading.

@catmom2509 5 жыл бұрын

RIP to the Mercury astronauts. They were the best of the best, "The Right Stuff."

@Boadiccea94 3 жыл бұрын

Legends!

@zanpsimer7685 Жыл бұрын

I think Ed White experienced “the breakaway effect.” He was coaxed inside several times after about 20 minutes EVA, until he was sternly ordered inside.

@unionhack6126 3 жыл бұрын

Just rewatched The Right Stuff...great movie, but pales in comparison to hearing these Great American Heroes speak. God Bless ALL of our heroes. May they rest in peace and may we honor their achievements and sacrifice.

@dirkdonger2887 3 жыл бұрын

The movie or the new series?

@FalconKPD 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have met them

@liquidbraino 3 жыл бұрын

"Were competing with Archie and Jughead"

@seanbad9457 9 жыл бұрын

The education thing is the part that gets me, I see kids in the western world hate school and I see kids in the east who go to school and then 5 hours a day in after school education. These two guys were part of the first seven hero's who have paved the way, but the only way I see NASA still ruling is by doing what they did to get these two guys into space..............import the knowledge

@wildevixen7753 2 жыл бұрын

You talk about education , but you think the plural of hero is hero's. What irony, Assuming that you actually went to school, when were you taught to insert an apostrophe in any plural? Never, and yet here you are doing it, as many semi-literate people do. Before you promote the idea of importing knowledge, you need to think about doing it yourself,starting with knowledge of grammar.

@scottwheeler2494 2 жыл бұрын

@@wildevixen7753 what you need is knowledge in the area of computer science. It is most likely that his web browser inserted the apostrophe automatically. It would resist your effort to remove it too. Often it's ignored as you are typing two words ahead by the time you notice. So don't be such a troll about grammar.

@wildevixen7753 2 жыл бұрын

@@scottwheeler2494 You have missed my point entirely, which tends to confirm what I said about falling standards. Calling someone a troll just because they seek to improve those standards is an easy avoidance measure, but it does not conceal your fundamental problem. I imagine you call a lot of people trolls. As for your opening comment, if you think computer science is the cause of semi-literacy, your problem is even greater.

@scottwheeler2494 2 жыл бұрын

@@wildevixen7753I didn't fail to understand: I just rejected your point. Lecturing someone on something that could also be attributed to something else, assuming their ignorance, in a somewhat snide manner is classic troll behavior. Now, if I am wrong in your intentions, I am sorry I misunderstood. I obviously missed your point. But perhaps it could have been said in a different manner so that I could have grasped your message. Instead it was overwhelmed by the tone. That is all. Now, I agree with the statement that standards have fell in the last few decades. I doubt seriously that diagramming sentences is done in English classes now - they are too busy shoving woke content in their brains. The basics are missing in the curriculum. So that when a browser inserts an apostrophe creating a contraction, the user glides over the error knowing the reader will likely ignore the error. It's a pedantic issue at best given the conversational nature of a KZfaq comment. I was educated in a very different manner 60 years ago. I have forgotten most of what I once knew by heart. Sadly that is what time does to all of us. So don't assume my ignorance thinking that it proves your point. Your bias is showing as the kids say nowadays.

@scottwheeler2494 2 жыл бұрын

@@wildevixen7753 Also, you are the first person I have called a troll in several years. I make few comments outside of my regular groups. But your comment stood out. Its tone stood out.

@MuzixMaker Жыл бұрын

Heroes.

@lard_lad_AU 4 жыл бұрын

John Glenn should have been a President.

@morgandude2 9 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more, toreibjo. So sad.

@matabeleman 11 жыл бұрын

awesome stuff

@awuma 7 жыл бұрын

32:12 The big size of the R-7 compared with the Atlas was due to an over-estimate by Andrei Sakharov of the mass of the H-bomb.

@Scottrchrdsn 7 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@chrispoleson6118 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, very educational. Such brave men

@ColKurtzknew 3 жыл бұрын

16 g's. Gee !!

@sdewes8884 3 жыл бұрын

Great!

@crazyaces4042 Ай бұрын

These men absolutely amaze me still as to what they went through and all they achieved! The really AWFUL things "they" did to these men and called testing was torture! They didn't even know what to test for let alone how to do it so they made them suffer for nothing. Not the right stuff ... the BEST STUFF and they did SO much even decades after the Mercury program. Alan Shepard went up first the month and year I was born. Gordon Cooper went up when I was 2 years old. I was born in the space age and just never really got it until much later in my life. When I was a teenager the Voyagers were sent into space and knew about them only later and to this day they ABSOLUTELY FASCINATE ME! They are still voyaging on.. or as far as we know. The youth of today just really don't get it. My kids are both pushing 40 and even they just don't get it. The new age I guess. I am PROUD to have been born into the space age and new tech age. I just don't like that now there is so much space junk out there. that bothers me. RIP JOHN AND SCOTT And all the Mercury ASTORNAUTS! best of the best of men.

@sonnydelight5737 3 жыл бұрын

Scott Carpenter, the coolest of cucumbers. When told that his heat shield may have become detached (Meaning he's about to burn up entering the atmosphere) he calmly stated "Oh my, I hope not".

@ajankowski2 3 жыл бұрын

It was actually Glenn who was told by Shepard just before blackout that the reason he was told to hold onto the Retropack was because there was a possibility the Heat Shield was loose. Carpenter, though, is the astronaut who thought he saw a flaming piece come off of the tower (top of the capsule) during re-entry. At that point, he said 'Ohhhh I hope not....."

@edgardagosto1917 Жыл бұрын

True men ahead of their time in cold war early space race

@ifkekanrunning4768 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Armstrong had any use of the MASTIFF training, when the Gemini 8 started to spin? Does anyone know if he even trained on that equipment? Thanks for the historic insight in the video.

@levin448 Ай бұрын

Great question. From what I understand his assignment to CDR for Apollo 11 was simply order based but they picked the best.

@reneen.3519 10 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Scott

@alanhutchins5916 3 жыл бұрын

I wonder if they ever thought they should be 'somewhere else, flying something else.....'..??

@Dra741 2 жыл бұрын

If you could distribute the g-forces around you like rotate you can withstand more g-forces I never knew anybody survive 16 G's except fighter pilots who caught ourselves still was able to fight their way out

@Dra741 2 жыл бұрын

This is the reason you had to have a good coronary system and heart, if there's any leaks in your valves are bad teeth in your mouth because plaques or anything like this so you know what most astronauts and Pilots they very scared when they go see the doctor, you have to be pressure tested like a Breitling

@horipet 9 жыл бұрын

I remember the Mercury missions, and poring over the newspaper clippings I’d pasted in my ‘Space’ album. So I’m delighted that my friend Lauren Oliver is making a movie about a fictional Mercury astronaut. And no digital nonsense - it will be shot on 35mm b/w FILM. “The story begins hours away from the last rocket launch of the Mercury era--1963. NASA discovers that Fletcher is hiding something: a critical health problem that violates every medical regulation known. The launch is held up while Fletcher stews in his capsule and the flight surgeon on the ground tries to make connections that will shut down the astronaut's dreams for good. Will the dreamer triumph against the dreamless?” While the characters are fictional, the setting is real and meticulously researched. They’ve even gotten help from someone who was actually there: Rene Carpenter, the widow of Project Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter. I recently met two of the talented and charming actors, and I’m privileged to have read the script - it’s splendid. Please Google: Kickstarter T-minus.

@shawncheng404 3 жыл бұрын

great person！

@richarddiffley4218 2 жыл бұрын

Clap if you have it!😳

@bryanmccann5778 3 жыл бұрын

so 2gs for 6 hours kills a monkey

@robertoneill1979 2 жыл бұрын

Made me laugh 🤣

@sonnyburnett8725 2 жыл бұрын

Would love to hear John Glenn’s views of politics today and his opinion of his party in 2022?

@Agarwaen Жыл бұрын

he'd probably be more aghast at the republican party, though probably saddened by how dems have just went to the right to fill in the gap as the gop has receded more and more toward the people he fought in wwii

@dpratte 2 жыл бұрын

American Heroes.

@liquidbraino 3 жыл бұрын

52:39 Alan Shepard looks like Ringo Starr in this image.

@manifestgtr 2 жыл бұрын

“The chief of naval operations is two steps above God” LOL

@BOBON0101 3 жыл бұрын

Pour cold water in your ears, dip your feet in ice water and take a spin on a centrifuge ... Welcome to NASA , you are now an astronaut.. 👍😁

@jshepard152 6 жыл бұрын

8:40 Begin here.

@nerivilla734 3 жыл бұрын

RIP

@MichaelKingsfordGray Жыл бұрын

A lot of the images are clearly mirror imaged. Very sloppy.

@royhall6367 3 жыл бұрын

@ivandelabanque1806 2 жыл бұрын

They never set foot on the moon surface..

@yassassin6425 Жыл бұрын

Correct. These are Mercury astronauts that were not involved in Apollo you buffoon. Alan Shepard did though.

@levin448 Ай бұрын

We have our first wacko denialist!

@MrDoneboy 4 жыл бұрын

If John Glenn was alive today, he would be a Republican senator!

@SawdEndymon 4 жыл бұрын

Keep politics out of this

@escalera601 3 жыл бұрын

I doubt it, not with today’s screwed up Senate.

@youtruckrek5121 Жыл бұрын

Well Communism must have won to look at the USA now. Lets Go Brandon !

@FreemonSandlewould 3 жыл бұрын

Glenn was a democrat senator from Ohio which is not exactly a lefty haven. Thus I would have to conclude as with McPain he really would not have been elected without some chicanery. But compared with what we have now at least the guy took his own god damned risks with his life.

@foobarmaximus3506 Жыл бұрын

John Glenn. The most boring person ever. lol

@wesleyallen1173 Жыл бұрын

And what have you done to help protect the united states, or to advance the knowledge of all humanity?. You do represent your name to the MAX.

@Scottrchrdsn 8 жыл бұрын

These men (including the rest of the Mercury 7) were highly overrated. I will say though that Scott Carpenter did provide some variety to an otherwise somewhat bland group.

@richardcook6284 7 жыл бұрын

people like you are highly overrated. what have you accomplished that would compare to what they did?

@Scottrchrdsn 7 жыл бұрын

Buried the bodies of the men I killed because they pissed me off. Like you.

@tomthx5804 7 жыл бұрын

Scottrdhrdsn - you are an idiot of the first order

@tilesetter1953 3 жыл бұрын

@@Scottrchrdsn Tough guy with a keyboard!!!!

@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe they went.