Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Glenn...
Died. Enos, 6½, the chimpanzee who preceded Colonel John Glenn into orbit by three months, twice circling the earth on Nov. 29, 1961, in a Mercury capsule while pressing levers and munching banana-flavored pellets; of dysentery; at New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base...
...fuel-saving automatic control as if a chimp were piloting. When he heard that all was favorable for the full six orbits, he cried, "Hallelujah!" and over Hawaii he called out, "Aloha!" At one point, he radioed back to earth: "I have a delightful report for one John Glenn. I, too, see fireflies"-the luminous particles first noticed by Glenn outside the capsule and sometimes called "the Glenn effect...
...some star observations for Schirra to make. But the main purpose of the six-orbit flight was to check the performance of the capsule's oxygen, electrical-and attitude-control systems. Considered critical was the amount of fuel needed. Schirra proved, as the technicians had suspected, that both Glenn and Carpenter could have managed with much less fuel if they had done less aimless maneuvering...
...turning slowly as it swept around the earth. Sometimes he rode backwards, sometimes upside down, but since he was weightless anyway, this did not bother him at all. "Drifting and dreaming," he radioed cheerfully to the ground. He drifted for three hours and 26 minutes, burning no fuel. Astronauts Glenn and Carpenter used nearly all their fuel before reentry, but Schirra approached the critical moment with 80% of his fuel still untouched...