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...Gentlemen," brffsks the general, "we are sending a man around the moon-this week! I'm asking for volunteers." The astronaughts turn pale, drop their eyes, examine their nails, twiddle their fingers, fiddle with buttons, brush their sleeves, blow their noses. All at once an astro-chimp, who happens to be standing by, grabs a fork and playfully jabs one of these reluctant Shepards of kingdom come (Tom Tryon) in the behind. "Yeeee-ooww!" he squalls. "That's our man!" the general bawls...
...crossed the Pacific a second time, Glenn discovered that his gyroscopes were wandering. The erratic jets were making the capsule "roll" (turn on its horizontal axis). A similar roll in November's flight of the chimp named Enos had forced the men at Cape Canaveral to bring the capsule down after two orbits. But again, John Glenn was able to overcome the trouble manually...
...data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted at any given time. Last November, when the capsule carrying Enos, the space chimp, ran into trouble on the second of three planned orbits, Chris Kraft needed just five seconds to decide to abort the mission, timed the firing of the braking rockets so well that the capsule splashed into the Atlantic within 30 miles of a rescue ship. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic...
...high ride was scheduled for 7:30 a.m., but it was held up for a while because of minor troubles with the capsule's telemetry system. Enos, who is called by his trainers "a meditative chimp," did not seem to mind. Snug in his air-conditioned nest, he waited patiently. At 10:07, the Atlas roared off its pad, climbed above Cape Canaveral and arced toward the northeast. It curved into orbit about 100 miles...
...capsule and rocket had separated, and Enos was over Zanzibar. The Zanzibar tracking station reported: "He hasn't missed a trick yet." Neither the acceleration of the roaring ascent nor weightlessness in orbit seemed to bother the meditative chimp. When colored lights appeared in little windows above his couch, he pressed the levers which, as he had been taught, would keep him from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral...