Word: capes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other tracking stations picked up the ominous signal. At the Cape, Project Mercury officials huddled tensely, trying to decide what to do. The answer might mean life or searing death to John Glenn. The final decision was made by Operations Director Walter Williams: an attempt would be made to hold the heat shield in place by changing the re-entry procedure. The retrorocket packet was supposed to be jettisoned after the rockets themselves had been fired. But the packet itself was bound to the capsule by three thin metal bands. Williams figured that the bands might be strong enough...
...ground. Astronaut Alan Shepard, the capsule communicator at Cape Canaveral, lost radio contact with Glenn. At the same time, other instruments tracking the capsule stopped registering. The blackout was predictable, caused by ionization from the heat of reentry. It lasted for seven minutes and 15 seconds. Then came John Glenn's exultant voice. "Boy!" he cried. "That was a real fireball...
Nearly 35,000 people contributed in substantive ways to the space flight of Astronaut John Glenn. Besides his fellow astronauts and a staff of 2,000 at Cape Canaveral, 15,000 men stood by for recovery or rescue operations on ships stretched across the Atlantic, 500 technicians manned 18 tracking stations on four continents and two oceans, and 15,000 scientists, technicians and factory workers who had labored for nearly four years on the space program left their imprint on the flight. Among members of this huge team, five men stand...
...Scott Carpenter when a skindiver lost consciousness at a depth of 80 ft. Carpenter brought him to the surface, and Glenn hauled him into a boat, where the diver quickly recovered. Then Vice President Lyndon Johnson flew in from Washington to escort Glenn back to the overwhelming welcome at Cape Canaveral. "In my country," said Johnson, on the flight up to Florida, "we'd say you're pretty tall cotton." Glenn grinned. "Were you very tense at take-off?" asked the Vice President. "I imagine I was," murmured Glenn. Said Johnson: "You were about as near the Lord...
...south gate of Cape Canaveral, Glenn smilingly produced his identity card for the guard. Minutes later, he stood on the airstrip and shook the hand of President Kennedy, who had just flown in from Palm Beach. Like most of his fellow citizens, the President had risen early on the morning of the Glenn flight, had followed the tense hours from countdown to recovery of the capsule on his TV set. After the speeches, the President and Glenn inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral?seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described...