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It was decided that Glenn should return to Earth early, after three orbits,' said Saunders, in an email with, explaining the history. If true, the heatshield was only held on by the straps of the retro rocket pack. 'Mission control noticed that a sensor suggested his heatshield and landing bag were not locked in position. I have felt perfectly normal during the whole flight. Glenn replied, "This is Friendship Seven. 'With little information coming from the only two previous Soviet spaceflights, medics were concerned about how a man may cope in space,' explained Saunders. Three hours and 35 minutes into the flight, while Glenn was on his 3rd orbit of Earth, he could be seen observing the instrument panel in the capsule.Īt this point mission control comes on the radio and asks: "Have you experienced any nausea at all during the entire flight?". In a short video clip, John Glenn can be seen watching the booster and curvature of the Earth through the capsule window - visible in his visor reflection thanks to the quality improvements made by Saunders. 'In this image we can see Glenn observing his booster 'falling away' against the curvature of Earth through the capsule window (via the reflection in his visor) signifying the moment he had reached orbit.'Īt this point, Glenn uttered the phrase 'Zero-g and I feel fine', and as the capsule turned towards the Earth he said 'Oh that view is tremendous!.And I can see the booster during turnaround just a couple of hundred yards behind me!' After separation, the capsule turned around. 'Just five minutes later the Atlas rocket's sustainer engine cut-off. 'At launch the famous phrase was uttered by capsule communicator Scott Carpenter, "Godspeed, John Glenn",' Saunders said. However, this time was different, as in 6 minutes the gantry would retract and at 09:47 the countdown would finally reach zero. He had entered the capsule at round 6am local time and was likely expecting things to be called off, as it had been countless times before. In the first image Glenn had been waiting for over two hours in the small, darkened Mercury capsule, sitting on the platform before launch. He is observing the instrument panel in the capsule as mission control asks, ".Have you experienced any nausea at all during the entire flight?". Three hours and 35 minutes into the flight, John Glenn is on his 3rd orbit of Earth. The Soviet Union had launched the world’s first spacecraft, Sputnik, in October 1957 and had also sent the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 1961. as a strong contender in the space race with the Soviet Union. It was seen as a great success for NASA, which was coming under increasing pressure from the Soviet Union, which had beat them to space and orbit.Īlso known as the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, it helped to established NASA and the U.S. His flight, known as Friendship 7, saw Glenn launch on an Atlas rocket in a Mercury spacecraft, where he spent four hours and 55 minutes circling the Earth. John Herschel Glenn was the third American in space, after Alan Shepard and Virgin Grissom, but the first to orbit the Earth - circling the planet three times. In 6 minutes the gantry would retract and at 09:47 the countdown would finally reach zero He'd been here before however in fact the flight had been postponed countless times. He had entered the capsule at round 6am local time. Glenn has been waiting for over two hours in the small, darkened Mercury capsule. 'The result is these images of photo-like quality for the first time - despite the film being 60-year-old small format 'movie' film,' he told.
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Saunders took footage from the capsule, supplied by Stephen Slater, archive producer of the Apollo 11 movie, and stacked each frame in a similar way to astronomers when creating beautiful views of space. Glenn was a member of the legendary NASA Mercury 7 group of astronauts, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962. He regularly posts photos on Instagram from this iconic era of human space travel, ahead of the release of Apollo Remastered in September.
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The images show Glenn at key stages of the mission in detail never seen before, thanks to processing and remastering transfers of the flight film by British science writer, Andrew Saunders, who is producing a book on early American spaceflight.
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To mark the 60th anniversary of Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn's historic orbit of the Earth, a photography expert has remastered footage from his flight.