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...difficult to see why a bank would want an astronaut as director for other than promotional reasons," said a NASA memo on the subject. But Commander Alan Shepard, 39, saw no difficulty, announced that he and two Texas businessmen were putting up $1,300,000 for 1,800 (of 2,000) shares in the First National Bank of Baytown, Texas, near the abuilding Manned Spacecraft Center. NASA officials finally gave Shepard permission to go ahead, but stopped plans for the other astronauts to get in on the deal. Shepard's name, added NASA, could not be used in connection...
NASA also blamed private industry for crucial delays in the $384 million Mercury program. As originally scheduled, the first American astronaut would have blasted into orbit as early as April of 1960, nearly a year before the Soviet Union's first manned flight. Instead, John Glenn's three-orbit trip was delayed 22 months. In that interval, said the report, "time and money were expended in Mercury to rectify cases where improper materials were found in the systems because someone had failed to follow the approved materials list." NASA singled out no particular companies from the total...
...During the Schirra flight, the cooling system in the capsule was "partially blocked by solidified lubricant," making it difficult for the astronaut to adjust his pressure suit to proper temperature...
...narrator, an oddly dressed fellow named Mr. Nod (I always called him the sandman) wanders through the world spreading the Moral Rearmament message. He is encouraged when an American astronaut returns to report that he did see (or at least hear) God in space. Naturally enough, that's why he found it so startling...
Ships & Caesars. Manna is adept at verbal slapstick. He is the fellow who created in the night boites of Cocoa Beach the astronaut who refused to be blasted off until his missing crayons were found. In another routine, he lands the first men on the moon-with such a jolt that their trousers fall down. He has some good one-liners. "I don't talk about Liz Taylor because some day it will be my turn," he says. He also notes that he never talks about his wife because "what's done is done...