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From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the type that is supposed to carry the first astronaut into orbit some time in late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Lead-Footed Mercury | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...Redstone roared a few inches into the air and then settled lumpishly back onto its launching pad. Adding to the absurdity of the scene was the wild behavior of the small "escape rocket" perched atop the Mercury capsule. The function of the escape rocket is to save the astronaut's life by blasting off in a hurry, taking the capsule with it, if the main rocket malfunctions. But this time the electronic signals got scrambled and the escape rocket blasted into the blue all alone, leaving the Mercury capsule behind atop the Redstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Lead-Footed Mercury | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...late 1959 to mid-1960 to late 1960 to early 1961 to mid-1961 and now to late 1961. Meanwhile, by sending the dogs Belka and Strelka into orbit last August and recovering them, the Russians have shown that it should not be much more complicated to put an astronaut into space any time they are willing to risk a man instead of a couple of mutts. "I would say that you could wake up any morning and find a Russian in space," says NASA's Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth. "I'm frankly surprised that they haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Lead-Footed Mercury | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...history ("Napoleon! That jerk gives me a pain, with his bowlegs and his corny hat"), dreamed of a career as a schoolmarm ("so I can beat the stuff out of the brats"), until she heard that teachers would soon be replaced by machines, and decided instead to be an astronaut ("so I can beat the stuff out of the Martians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES ABROAD: L'Enfant le Plus Terrible | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...time the first U.S. astronaut starts his 4½-hour trip around the earth, Project Mercury will have cost at least $350 million. Explains Mercury's Robert R. Gilruth: "We had to go with the boosters we had, built around the Atlas system. So everything had to be miniaturized, even the heat shield. We couldn't use off-the-shelf equipment. Miniaturization takes time and money." Design of a special lightweight oxygen bottle, for instance, took 18 weeks, cost more than $20,000. The Russians, whose rockets generate an estimated 800,000 Ibs. of thrust (v. Atlas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: MAN IN SPACE | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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