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none of the music is mine, but used with permission. footage is public domain except for sequences from The Right Stuff, From The Earth To The Moon, Etc
Mary Sherman Morgan art is by Joe Kim, Art Director at Hackaday.com
hackaday.com/2019/07/02/mary-sherman-morgan-rocket…
Soundtracks from When We Left Earth, Barotrauma, Civilization: Beyond Earth
None of the artwork is mine
WW2 map animation sequence from "Kickflip"
Project Mercury footage from Spacehistory.TV
Views : 2,917,163
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Aug 4, 2020 ^^
Rating : 4.839 (1,289/30,816 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-07T20:56:38.598256Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
My Dad was the pilot of the helicopter that retrieved Mercury-Atlas 3, one of the unmanned flights. He designed 'the pulpit,' the 'squirrel cage,' used for SSgt Ralph Cochran to stand in and use the shepherds crook to attach the cargo hook to the capsule to bring it home! He was a memeber of the Marine Recovery Force when Alan Shepard, Jr. completed his flIght. Ref: Leatheneck Feb. 1961 Magazine of the Marines p. 20, 23. Leatherneck May 1962 Magazine of the Marines pp. 53-54
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Just one question: How come the owner of this YouTube channel, who from what I can tell is an amateur, makes far better documentaries than most of those who would be called professionals? Very well done sir and please keep up the outstanding work.
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The montage of rockets exploding set to "Kokomo" is true poetry
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What a brilliant effort !! As an engineer, it was a genuinely complete doco without all the overdone flag-waving that usually accompanies such historic overviews. First rate to the team behind it
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This is better done than anything the History Channel has done in the last 20 years.
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I was born in 1956 and a very small boy during the Mercury Program. I’ve never seen such a detailed documentary about this program. I’ve been a fan of the Apollo program which is obvious. I was only seven when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. During the landing I was in the hospital for appendicitis. My father had smuggled a small radio into the hospital and at the time they landed the head nurse came, lifted the blankets under which I hid, and asked me: “Have they landed yet”. I’ll never forget that moment. This documentary has given me all these memories back. Thank you very much indeed.
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I love the juxtaposition of The Beach Boys music and rockets blowing up. I love that part.
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This channel is like going to the museum and reading every tag, every plaque every description. It's Amazing. And how he ties all of history, the good bad and unwanted, Amazing
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It is hard to believe this is not professionally made. In 57 years, I have NEVER seen such a detailed account of the Mercury program!!! I sure hope you cover Gemini and Apollo. Those would be incredible and well worth purchasing!
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This is possibly the best documentary Ive seen on YouTube. 10/10
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I spent most of my life watching all sorts of documentaries. This is absolutely the best of the best. Your choice of music, the narration, the footage is beyond anything I have seen. I cannot stress enough how well this is put together. This is the standard by which documentaries should be made. It actually makes me feel like I'm witnessing these events as if I had lived in those times. I tip my hat sir. Well done....very well done.
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Folks, these Documentaries ought to be on TV, if they aren't already! Very, very good!! Thanks!!
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I just wasted 6 hours of my life watching Disney / Nat Geo 2020 'The Right Stuff' (aka. Real Housewives of NASA) and then I discovered this masterpiece !!! You've managed to capture and present everything I've ever wanted to know about Mercury in a way no other documentary I've seen ever has - BRAVO !!!!
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"Homemade" ??? Your work is better than many professionals!!!
This video is a jewel. Two hours well spent watching.
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my grandfather worked on project Mercury at the Cape and he would be damn proud to see this fantastic documentary.
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As a critical video producer myself, I'm only 21 minutes into this AWESOME production & am FULLY engrossed. Since this is the first presentation of yours that I am seeing, I will most definitely be looking to enjoy all of your productions. I would categorize your content & quality at a much higher caliber than most professional documentaries.
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As a space enthusiast, I've seen a lot of documentaries and read a lot about these events, but still you presented one of the best docus I've ever encountered. Truly impressed!
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This is brilliant. Absolutely thee finest piece on USA's early space program years I have ever seen, and at 68yrs old, not only have I seen them all, I lived through them all. I am simply stunned by your demonstrated skill set. You have done yourself, and the men and women of Project Mercury proud! You've also earned my subscription , like and notification que as a small gesture of gratitude for your obvious dedication to the perfection of your craft. Bravo! All your systems are GO!!!
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They were heroes to boys my age back then. All of us thought one day we could be astronauts. One of my prize possessions as a boy was my GI Joe with a space suit and Mercury capsule. I wish I had that today. I'm sad at what constitutes heroes today. Whatever else the space program was for real, it sparked the imagination of kids all over. It was a HUGE part of life back then.
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@JacksonTyler
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I hope all of you enjoyed the video! I’ll be addressing minor mistakes, errors, and overall critiques here. This is the first time that this channel has even attempted a subject of such scale, so to see how many of you enjoyed it is very wonderful. I do not claim that the entirety of the Wehrmacht was mechanized in the video, but rather that they had “fully embraced” it. German panzer groups would attack as concentrated units and would leave foot soldiers behind in many, many cases. The difficulties involved in mechanization regarding the Heer was not in doctrine or thought, but in economy and capability. Germany certainly loved and highlighted its mechanized units...it just didn’t have nearly enough of them. Foot soldiers of the Heer and horse-drawn artillery arrived into the theatre of action after Panzer units had swept through. ——————— A couple caption typos, and I see them! That’s 100% on me. Tried to bang out this video a day early, and that’s what I get The R-7 "Semyorka" was not deployed to Cuba, but rather the closely related "R-12" was, which was a successor vehicle that used storable propellants, not unlike what the Titan-II did to succeed the Atlas.
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