The video, link below, is made from photographs taken by a film camera mounted to the Freedom 7 spacecraft and scanned by archivists at Johnson Space Center. It shows the view from Freedom 7 as the Redstone rocket launched it into space, getting an amazing view of Earth’s limb and the blackness beyond before falling back to splash down in the Atlantic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=A-hjgs_3mSc
http://tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery...MR-3-13012-001