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...capsule. When he rose to the "greenhouse," an enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft. level, technicians helped him squeeze through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business of being strapped onto a contour couch, of being hooked up to myriad tubes and wires. At 6:10 a.m. E.S.T., the hatch was closed and sealed. Blast-off was still more than three hours away...
...suit made of aluminized nylon outside and rubberized nylon inside. It was a tight squeeze. Before all Zippers, straps and metal fittings were set properly in place, Shepard was sweating profusely and breathing hard. As soon as he got his helmet on, he lay down on a specially fitted contour couch, feet held up in clamps, while his oxygen and air-pressure hoses were attached...
Shepard relaxed on the couch until 3:55. Then, escorted by two doctors, he carried his portable air-conditioning unit out of the building. Glaring TV lights met him head on, forcing him to squint his eyes. He climbed into the white transport van, lay down on another contour couch while the van drove slowly...
...Freedom 7 (from Shepard's seventh place on the alphabetical list of trained astronauts). Reporters, TV crews, and crowds of technicians from McDonnell Aircraft Corp. (which made the capsule) watched the silvery apparition with awe and admiration. For the last time that morning, Shepard lay down on a contour couch...
Gelatin & Diaper. For breakfast Chimp No. 65 got an ounce of baby cereal, 4 oz. of condensed milk, cooking oil, gelatin, vitamins and half an egg. Then he was wired for recording instruments, dressed in a baby diaper and strapped on his back on a personally fitted contour couch, his arms left free. The environmental control system (air pressure, oxygen, temperature, etc.) was much the same as for a human astronaut...