Word: cooperized
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ASTRONAUT talk is literally out of this world, and yet it has its own necessary coherence-as shown by the dramatic moments described in this week's cover story on the epic flight of Gordon Cooper. Nowadays everyone from garage mechanics to gospel singers have their own lingo, their own shorthand, and their own vivid phraseology. It might be possible to put out an issue of TIME in the 850 words of Basic English, but to do so would be to leave out an essential vitality in the way Americans do and say things...
Space last week was a place for a pilot's reflexes and a scientist's judgments. It was a place for cool human reason based firmly on technical knowledge. Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper's performance in his Faith 7 space capsule was a dramatic rejection of any argument that machines alone and not man will be the key to the future exploration of space...
...would have burned -destroying millions of dollars worth of equipment and a priceless treasury of new information. More important, if less tangible, was the fact that neither a perfectly trained chimpanzee nor a perfectly tuned machine could have swelled men's hearts as did the success of Astronaut Cooper. President Kennedy put it well: "This was one of the great victories for the human spirit...
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...
...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...