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...Foolish!" barked NASA Manned-Flight Director Robert Gilruth. "I think maybe this will not happen again." Growled NASA Director James Webb, "This was not an adequate performance by an astronaut." Gemini Pilots Virgil Grissom, 38, and John Young, 34, were on the carpet for something they did on their recent three-orbit mission. Gilruth and Webb told a congressional committee that the corned-beef-on-rye sandwich Young smuggled into their Molly Brown capsule and fed Grissom instead of the scientifically prepared flight diet was strictly unprogrammed. Mincing no words, the administrators decreed that henceforth "corned-beef-sandwich incidents" will...
Kennedy's proposal for a joint moon expedition was known in advance only to a handful of intimates in the White House, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the State Department. Only a few days earlier, discussing joint manned flights, Manned Spacecraft Center Director Dr. Robert Gilruth told the American Rocket Club: "I tremble at the thought of the integration problem. The proposal would be very interesting and significant - but hard to do in a practical sort...
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...