There is a nice rendition of a Ferry rocket launch here
at wired. Including more about these mesh braking parachutes.
About then years ago there was an Australian filmmaker called David Sander who was working on an ever expanding project to make a mockumentary about NASA in the 50s and 60s in a what -if kind of setting, using these ferry rockets and landing on Mars in 1969 (after they already have landed on the moon in 1963). It was called "Man Conquers Space". He was pretty far and the footage looked amazing but suddenly he went offline with his project site and went silent. A real pity. There still is some stuff left on Youtube, hosted by others:
here and here. The most recent one,
here, shows how his project got a much broader context. Perhaps that is why he abandoned it in the end. Or maybe not.