Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games nexus devoted to space exploration. It has the Cape Canaveral Satellite Jet-passengers enter the rocket, fasten seat belts, then blast off with engines roaring as filmed special-effects from actual space shots conjure up a journey to the moon. The Colonel Glenn Sky Ride has 16 plastic bubbles orbiting 80 feet above the boardwalk. For downward exploration the Neptune Diving Bell encloses 30 people, drops them 35 feet down to an "ocean floor" where live porpoises play. Further along is the Double Sky Wheel, a king-sized dumbbell with gyratory center beam supporting two independent wheels that...
...world tensed. Scattered across the globe, 28 ships and 172 aircraft deployed to pick Cooper up-if he got back. From the command ship Coastal Sentry, 275 miles south of Japan, Astronaut John Glenn gave Cooper new re-entry instructions. Cooper was unruffled. Said he wryly: "I'm looking for lots of experience on this flight." Replied Glenn, the first American to make an orbital flight: "You're going...
...Cooper, after his initial exhilaration, seemed almost bored. On his second orbit, while over the Pacific between Hawaii and Cali fornia, he dozed for a few moments. Then, on his ninth orbit, after nearly 14 hours in space, his program called for him to try to sleep. Advised Communicator Glenn: "I'm going to tell them [all other communicators] to go away and leave you alone now." Cooper pulled a curtain across his capsule window, allowed his craft to speed untended through outer space. In the silence of such flight, the weightless astronaut has no sensation of movement even...
...coming good weather, we hope to add another shift, if we can stretch the days and nights." Two U.S. astronauts were busy with space: Commander Alan Shepard Jr. was readying as back-up man for this week's scheduled flight by Astronaut Gordon Cooper, and Lieut. Colonel John Glenn was taking up a station in the Pacific to help monitor the flight. Jacques Cousteau was working underwater in the Red Sea and felt that he could not surface long enough for a trip to New York...
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...