Word: gilruth
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With deep regret, NASA Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth announced that he was clipping the wings of one of his astronauts. Because of an "erratic heartbeat," Air Force Captain Donald ("Deke") Slayton, 38, was no longer eligible for a solo ride into space. The doughty Deke will be reassigned to "operational and planning" duties on the ground, though he might take a ride on a rocket as second or third man in future Gemini and Apollo shots...
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Robert R. Gilruth, director. Project Mercury Sc.D...
Robert R. Gilruth, 48, director of Project Mercury and head of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, is the driving force behind the U.S. manned space-flight program. An aeronautical engineer with both bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota, Bob Gilruth won international recognition in the '40s for his research on the characteristics of aircraft in flight, switched to spacecraft after the Government picked him in 1945 to create an organization to conduct freeflight experiments (and found time along the way to invent the nation's first successful hydrofoil system...
...narrowed its selection of the first man to invade space to a few hundred likely candidates, then a few score, then again to the seven well-publicized Mercury astronauts. Last week, with all the nonchalance of Casey Stengel reeling off a pre-game batting order, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth narrowed the choice to three. The trio: Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn Jr., 39; Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom, 34; Navy Commander Alan Shepard Jr., 37. After the initial manned flight is scheduled-perhaps in two months-one of the three will be chosen to ride a Redstone-borne capsule...
...much more complicated to put an astronaut into space any time they are willing to risk a man instead of a couple of mutts. "I would say that you could wake up any morning and find a Russian in space," says NASA's Project Mercury Boss Robert Gilruth. "I'm frankly surprised that they haven't done it before...