Project Mercury Training/Promotional Film From the USA National Archives - a film which shows various training operations during the build-up to the first astronaut crewed Mercury-Redstone mission and astronauts participating in promotion of the program. The first part of the film shows various pad operations, including spacecraft operation and Shepard practicing emergency egress from Pad 5, where his MR-3 spacecraft and MR7 Redstone rocket are already in situ. There is no audio for this segment. The second part of the film shows the three designated prime astronauts for the first mission Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn are shown at the end of the film - Shepard at the CapCom station in Mercury Control Center in Florida, Glenn in the clean room with the Mercury spacecraft and Grissom at pad 5. There was a separate audio track available for Shepard and Glenn, which has been added to the film but, unfortunately, not for Grissoms piece to camera. There is a Patreon for anyone interested in supporting my channel - All donations go to enhancing future content - thanks in advance and it would be great to have you onboard. Patrons often receive pre-launch video access and media content www.patreon.com/user?u=54979908&fan_landing=true

Thank you from Russia for this very interesting video! In the 80s and 90s, I was very interested in the history of the development of space programs of the USSR and the USA, which I wrote in my letter to John Glenn in 1995, and to my joy he replied by sending me a letter, an autographed photo and a photocopy of an article from LIFE magazine about his flight. I was very happy for him when he was lucky enough to look at our planet from space again. Good luck!

Gus was my favorite astronaut, later on. My first memory of the space program was the funerals of Gus, Ed, and Roger.

13:59 Alan Shepard smirks as he switches into 'actor mode'

Thanks for the bonus LM5! 100-50 seen 3 times.Fantastic buddy!Keep on orbiting.

Very Interesting.

Great footage! Gus Grissom's 'flat top' is pretty cool. Wish I could get one but sadly I'm now almost totally bald.

Great stuff.. thanks!

💯! Another great effort and a tremendous service to history. Terrific!

It's nice someone had the idea to film some of this stuff. Gene Kranz once said in an interview that in the earliest days of mercury there was no definite plan for archive materials and historical documentation.

Nice find! Especially Gus. 19:50 and 20:38 you can tell he messed up the script 😂

brilliant the stuff u find is legendary

ive watch a lot of mercury and u just taken it up one level big respect

Thanks for uploading! Really great footage!

Four "takes" for Gus... 😊

I think a Iron Man suit has more space inside. THX Simon

244 in not Gus

Too bad there's no sound on Gus.

who is he

Where do u find this shit