Freedom 7 Full Flight Animation 

Amazing. Such bravery!

Alan's strained "OK" repetition as he endures the deceleration forces during re-entry makes it sound very real.

"Ah, roger, liftoff and the clock has started." -- For a second there, I was thinking "was that Insprucker??!?"

Listening to the dialog, it's pure test pilot all the way, all business. Also; 11.66 G, ouch!

I had never heard Shepard’s voice transmission before, and I was so surprised by the great quality! Almost sounded like a reporter/journalist commentating over the launch, so calm and informative.

I love how C-Bass made sure to include the washer floating in the cabin at 5:17. I love the fine details!

This is absolutely amazingly animated and done. I felt so immersed and had my heart pounding on that reentry. Great shots really felt like I was watching a documentary or movie. Well done!

For those that haven't seen a mercury capsule in a museum, they're not much bigger than the astronauts inside. It can fit into the bed of a pickup truck.

You can hear Shepard's voice straining as the Gs build up on reentry. 8:58

Oh please please PLEASE make more of these. Of course you couldn't do full mission videos for anything other than Freedom 7 and Liberty Bell 7, but you could certainly do launch and mission highlights. And of course every single mission has a story that deserves to be told

I remember watching this when I was 5 years old...my Mom got me up early in the morning to watch. She was even cooler a year later, when I was in 1st grade, to call me off school so I could watch John Glenn blast off.

If you showed this to the people in charge of this program they would conclude that there were aliens with good cameras. Amazing work as always!

Shepard was the first American in space and hung in for 10 years and was able to walk on the moon! It could only have been better if he had flown Apollo 17 in 1972 where he could have been the last Ameican on the moon for 50+ years.

Jesus, he experienced 11.6 G's during re-entry?!

This took place exactly 61 years ago today. A month after I was born. I always wanted to hear the complete recording of the of this very historic event. Only 16min. of suborbital space flight but a very important step for the space program at that time. Thank you so much for this video. I was driving to work at 4:00 in the morning when I heard this on the radio and by sheer coincidence I discovered this channel tonight with your video about Freedom 7 and Alan Shepard. Again thank you and subscribed right away.

I was six and we watched all the coverage. I don't remember, but, we always watched the space coverage, and I remember Mercury capsule toys. This video gives a fantastic perspective. Wow!

Hearing the actual voice recording I'm really impressed with the job Ted Levine did playing him on From the Earth to the Moon. His recreation of this flight in particular is spot-on.

I was barely six years old...just right to tenderly begin a 12-year fascination with our space program!

Outstanding work. Sheppard later played golf on the moon. Not a Boy Scout like Glenn, but a hero of mine.

So immersive and almost feeling what the astronaut is experiencing, especially the 11,6 G 😱. Great Job to you and those pioneers of the space exploration.

Historical fact with some good animations, worthy of being placed in schools to remember the event. Seeing how everything happened in space makes it much better, the engineering of the time how it worked. Very good for you.

12:00 I've never seen the Mercury capsule with this before. Fantastic work

Excellent, I would have liked a modern day spaceX type of telemetry bar along the base but still excellent, thanks.

Amazing as always

really great stuff! this is stuff that should go on a screen in a museum

Thank you so much! THIS is how this historical event should be taught. No longer a story, but an *experience*!

Why am i just now discovering this channel!?!?! Awesome work!!!

Alan doing over 11g: "okey... okey". Such a a super human!

Very cool. As someone who lived through and followed closely the early era of space exploration, I appreciate your video very much. Hope to see more.

Thank you for this. I was five years old when Dad woke us up to watch this launch. I remember the delays and being surprised when it was all over so quickly. But mostly I remember my dad and how excited he was. You gave me a moment. Be well.

Excellent, I was a little kid when this happened and didn't see it. This is so nice to relive it in real time. Thank you.

I saw a dummy Mercury capsule at the KSC when I visited in January and boy are they tiny. There was no way I could fit inside, let alone with a pressure suit. These astronauts were just built different.

This is amazing! If you don't have an idea for a next video you could make a Gemini \ Agena mission or the Soyuz-Apollo mission.

What I find interesting is that the astronauts that flew multiple missions said that this Redstone rocket and the Atlas beat the crap out of them a lot more than the Saturn V...several of them said that you could not believe how smooth flying the Saturn V was.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

Exceptionally impressive visual effects! Just frick'n wow! Great job!

Stunning job. I have listened to that recording for over 50 years, but never really envisioned it until your animation. Good work.

Wow- this explained a LOT! Great job!

Really enjoyable. I remember that day. Nerve-wracking even for a kid during the wait after launch, trying to follow on TV.

The 3 retro rockets that fire were meant to slow the capsule down on orbital flights to reenter the atmosphere. Since the redstone rocket was not capable of sending the capsule to orbit they were not nessecery for this mission. They did need to be tested to see if they would fire in space for later orbital missions using the bigger Atlas rockets. Normally on an orbital flight they would fire the rockets in the retrograde direction, bringing the orbit path into the atmosphere. Since a suborbital arc is already steep and reentry harder on the astronaut (here he experiences over 10 g's) they needed to angle the capsule for "retro" burn so the change in velocity didn't make the reentry profile too steep to be safe. This was accomplished by firing the thrust at an angle between the retrograde and radial out directions. Had they fired them true retrograde on this flight Shepard may have pulled too many g's or burned up from falling too fast. Ultimately if the retrorockets failed the capsule would have still made it back to Earth, just landing in a different place. In addition they angled the heatshield up like this on all flights to jettison the retro-rocket pack in a way that made sure that it would not collide with the capsule and damage the heatshield. On orbital missions they would pitch the heatshield up AFTER the retro burn for jettisoning the pack, before pitching the heatshield to face the prograde direction. Since this flight was so short they really only had time to test the manual RCS control (pitch yaw roll) and then use the fly by wire system to orient the craft to the attitude it needed to be a minute or two later for the retro rocket test.

This was just awesome. That fifteen minute flight always struck me as sort of, well, trivial. This visualization makes it clear that it was a stunning experience.

I want the same for Gagarin!

Amazing Work!

A very nice sequence. I liked the fading of the exhaust plume as the ambient air pressure decreased. One technical quibble. The periscope view shown here resembled a monochrome TV display. In reality it's purely an optical instrument, like a wide angle monocular. The view would be as 'live' as the view through the porthole. It was surprising that, given the overall sophistication, there was no splash effect at all. The capsule was made to simply merge into the water without disturbance. On balance, a great simulation.

That was very impressive! I don't remember Alan Shepherd's flight but I do remember John Glenn's launch.

This channel is so underrated! Great stuff!

Wow, what a great job 👍🏻💪🏻

brilliant animation , thank you very much

5:16. Even the washer floating in apogee. Beautiful stuff

Y'all do FREAKING AMAZING work! Beautifully animated, and edited.

just brilliant, thanks so much for this.

Are you kidding me? What an amazing video. Someone should hire you to make movies for Hollywood or something.

Thanks for creating such a great animation along with the inset of Shepherd. Fantastic! Great job.👍. 11.6 gees on reentry, wow!!! I second one of the other comments that was made. Please create a Gemini mission. That would be amazing.

Marvelous!

No way! Bro you are a God of animation! We appreciate you and thank you so much for this beautiful eye candy!

Carbon vanes. Redstone was a next-gen V2. Amazing Al Sheppard survived the vibration.

So fantastic, loved every second of it! 🚀🤩

Wow! It took a really long time for a splash down.

These animations are so good the effort put into them is amazing!

Wow absolutely incredible, felt like I was in the capsule. Stunning work

Superb video.

Amazing drone footage.

WOW, great work dude

Thank you 👍

Amzing work as always!

That was an amazing recreation! Well done!

Brilliant work my man👍

Excellent animation. I congratulate you for this work! 😀

Absolutely phenomenal work!! This is fantastic!!

Super job with the animation! congratulations.

Very well done, i love your work!

That was cool.

Mesmerizing. Thanks!

Marvelous animation! As always, thanks much for sharing. Steve

You nailed it, having the internal camera there is just genius. Great work!

Amazing video Corey, as always. Beautiful integration of then and now.

amazing work again

Great work. Well Done.

Awesome work!

Excellently done!

Great job Corey, this is gives us new and amazing views of a breakthrough moment in US space history, thank you!

Amazing job!

Awesome animation. Well done.

Fantastic - well done!!

Amazing! Thanks a lot

Nice work!

Excellently done 👍🏼

Incredible work.

Wow! Impressive. Thank you.

I really wish I knew how to make such good renders and animations

Excellent animation!

Nice modeling and animation. Just a note: Liftoff vibration looked good when the camera was close to the rocket, but as the camera pulls back, it should have faded away. While this may have been intentional, it detracts from the subject being viewed.

For your work on the OLT: The YT channel "Mr Best" has identified the winch as a NOV ADS-30Q, made by NOV Rig Technologies. He proposes the name "Red Hulk." The video lists many of the specs. (Please note, that's NOT his camera work, it's the source video.) This company offers an automated drawworks system for use on ocean oil rigs. Apparently, using an AC motor on a drawworks is unconventional but allows them to offer "active heave drilling." This gives us a hint as to why SpaceX chose this winch. A line in the company literature, "due to active-heave compensation, the drilling operational window is increased by allowing drilling programs to continue in heavier seas than conventional drawworks" indicates to me such a system is meant to handle sudden increases or decreases in the load force. To be exact, the sudden increase of a Super Heavy settling onto the catcher arms. I'm applying the active compensation use to the OLT on land. Whether the tower is moving (an actual oil rig at sea) or the load is moving (on land, a Super Heavy) the sudden increase in load factor is the point. (A drawworks is simply the hoisting machinery of a rotary drilling rig.)

This is incredible

I would imagine the first suggestion for improvement Shepard gave to the capsule team was: fix the radio!

Nice! Some recommendations to make it even better: (1) Although the rocket vibrated on the climb you WAY overdid that, it’s dramatic but inaccurate and annoying, ease off a bit on the shaking (2) You should add a small digital readout in the corner showing 3 flight parameters constantly updating: Speed, Altitude, Distance Downrange (3) More cowbell!

Amazing video. Bravo 👏 👌 ✋

beautiful

on screen telemetry/ stats would be nice, well done!

Outstanding.