Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that victory, Cooper made man's future in space brighter than ever before. Already, there was excited speculation at Cape Canaveral about another Project Mercury flight. Although the program was meant to be ended after Faith 7, there were hints that there might next be an "open end" trip that could last up to six days...
John Hay '38, a poet and naturalist, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa poem. Hay, the president of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, is the author of A Private History, a volume of poems published...
...launch seemed so routine that only a few bird watchers turned out at the Cape Canaveral pad. And as the Thor-Delta rocket rose above the southern morning, the Bell Telephone Laboratories scientists who had built its cargo followed its course with rising confidence. Satisfied at last that their latest communication satellite, Telstar II, was in proper orbit, they put through a telephone call to their space communication station at Andover, Maine. "She's all yours. Go play with her!" It was hardly the type of space spectacular that President Kennedy warned would soon be touched off by Soviet...
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...
...Cape Canaveral, space agency officials were guarded about the possibility of an encore Mercury flight, saying that it might take several weeks to analyze Cooper's journey and determine if another is needed. Their reticence may be due to possible Congressional cuts in the proposed $5.7 billion space budget...