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...Project Mercury because of two disastrous earlier failures. But last week's Atlas was beefed up for its job, and it performed perfectly; the MA4 accelerated surely into its planned orbit. Strapped in the capsule instead of a man sat an oblong box that performed most of an astronaut's functions: it consumed oxygen, excreted carbon dioxide and water vapor, and it also talked-feeding the recorded voice of NASA Communications Engineer Howard Kyle into a microphone to test the Mercury communication system. Out of a porthole and periscope peered two cameras. Special instruments recorded the assorted stimuli...
Simulated Stoic. Around the earth arced MA-4, its simulated astronaut breathing, sweating, and chattering steadily in its recorded voice. Strung around the globe, 18 Mercury radio stations picked up the signals, reported the capsule's progress. After 88 minutes, when MA4 was nearing Guaymas on the west coast of Mexico, its three retrorockets were fired by a timing device, its speed was cut by 350 m.p.h., and it began a gentle descent toward the dense lower atmosphere...
...landing a Soviet astronaut on the moon: "It is not a question of mooning him but of demooning him. Our national emblem is already on the moon, but we don't want to place a coffin beside...
...began a case that became, as no other crime ever did. a national nightmare. It had been nearly five years since "the Lone Eagle" had made his flight, and gangly, shy Charles Lindbergh was still an authentic, legendary U.S. hero-a prop-age astronaut. In an excellent piece of historical journalism, George Waller, sometime magazine editor, has vividly reconstructed both the facts of the case and the spirit of the era. Although the torrentially reported crime could scarcely be more familiar to readers over 40. the author's retracing of the events builds up an effective ersatz suspense that...
...National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week stepped up its timetable for the moment when the first U.S. astronaut will be spun into orbit around earth. NASA announced that the U.S. learned enough from its first two manned suborbital flights by Astronauts Alan Shepard and "Gus" Grissom (plus, presumably, the limited reports of the U.S.S.R.'s orbiting Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov) to cancel a third planned suborbital ride. Thus only two apparent steps still remain before manned orbit: successfully launching an unmanned but human-dummied Mercury capsule into orbit (possibly this week), then orbiting a chimpanzee...