Word: astronauts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disclose the cost per man, but indicated that it was somewhat more than a 35-year-old military jet pilot would pay (an annual $1,810 standard premium with a $375 surcharge for extra hazard), but still less than steeplejacks. Since the standard premium varies with age, Senior Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 41, gets the highest bill. The lowest? To Major L. Gordon Cooper, 36, pounding along the beach at Cape Canaveral as a warm-up for his scheduled 22-orbit mission this week, which could be the biggest TV spectacular in many a moon (see SCIENCE...
...station now under construction near Tokyo. If it holds out until the summer of 1964, it will be able to bounce the Olympic Games by color TV from Japan directly to the U.S. Long before that it may relay to Europe from the U.S. the facial expressions of Astronaut Gordon Cooper orbiting the earth, and the glorious view of the oceans and continents from his Mercury capsule...
...commander in Viet Nam, was "busy as we can be trying to find solutions to our many problems. We're on a three-shift basis now, and with the coming good weather, we hope to add another shift, if we can stretch the days and nights." Two U.S. astronauts were busy with space: Commander Alan Shepard Jr. was readying as back-up man for this week's scheduled flight by Astronaut Gordon Cooper, and Lieut. Colonel John Glenn was taking up a station in the Pacific to help monitor the flight. Jacques Cousteau was working underwater...
Cooper's journey had begun at 3:04 a.m. Wednesday, halfway around the world at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It ended 34 hours, 20 minutes and 30 seconds later, a 600,000-mile shot that hit almost directly on target--the astronaut came down just short of four miles from the Kearsarge and jokingly apologized for not getting closer. On ship, he was greeted by a red carpet, a band and a roar of cheers from 1,600 sellers...
Landing the craft on his own, Cooper was coached from the ground by another astronaut John Glenn. The Faith 7 pilot remained in complete control until hitting the water, as nonchalant he had been earlier in the flight, when he almost fell asleep during the countdown, napped during his second orbit, and slept for around 7 1/2 hours during the night...