The rocket was recovered and although it was in good condition it never flew again. Flight director Chris Kraft made the call to just let the rocket sit until next the day when the batteries had drained and the liquid oxygen had boiled off. This left the rocket in a precarious condition: unanchored, fueled, with armed pyrotechnics, and with a parachute hanging down the side that - if the wind caught it - could have toppled the rocket. 2) It deployed the drogue chute for the recovery parachute (that is the "pop" seen in the film) 3) When not sensing any load on the main parachute, the rocket assumed the main parachute had failed and deployed the reserve. 1) It released the escape tower, that took off. The rocket then - dutifully - followed the correct procedure for a premature engine shutdown. Due to a cabling error, the umbilicals separated in the wrong order, leading to an electrical fault that shut down the engine. That is the Mercury-Redstone 1 launch failure, also known as "The four-inch flight". The failure montage ends with a rocket that goes nowhere and just lets out a humorous "pop".
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