Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr., 37, flight director, controlled Friendship 7 from the moment the Atlas-D roared off the launch pad, had to make the heavy decisions about whether to let Glenn make a third orbit and when and where to bring him to earth if further trouble developed. Sitting in the Mercury Control Center, Kraft was fed a steady stream of monitored data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted...
...builders, has responsibility for the proper functioning of the capsule's multiplicity of systems, subsystems and backup systems. Handsome and softspoken, he spent more than a year preparing the Friendship 7 for its orbital flight. It was chiefly his advice that led to the decision to leave Glenn's retrorockets attached on Friendship 7's reentry. Yardley graduated from Iowa State College and earned a master's degree in applied mechanics from Washington University in 1950, worked as an aircraft maintenance officer for the Navy before joining McDonnell. Named project engineer for spacecraft design, he masterminded...
William K. Douglas, 39, flight surgeon, declared Glenn physically fit for the flight after making a final examination, rode up with him in the gantry elevator to see that he was properly placed in the capsule and that all the electronic monitors attached to his body were working, then carefully monitored and fed Glenn's in-flight physical reactions to Chris Kraft. Douglas was certified in aviation medicine in 1956; he took his premed study at the University of New Mexico, his M.D. at the University of Texas, and postgraduate training at Johns Hopkins University. He could write...
...since Lindy had the U.S. had such a hero. From the moment he stepped out of his capsule onto the deck of the Noa, Glenn was a marked man. His footprints on the deck were marked in white paint, to be appropriately preserved later on just as the touchdown spot of the Spirit of St. Louis was marked at Paris' Le Bourget Field. Glenn accepted his apotheosis as coolly as he had handled Friendship 7 on its flight through space. In the torrent of questions, he was articulate and at ease. There was honest pride in his great achievement...
Helping Hand. From the Noa, Glenn proceeded by helicopter, carrier and plane to Grand Turk Island for his two-day debriefing and the preparations for his homecoming. But he had time to go spearfishing and to lend a helping hand to Fellow Astronaut Scott Carpenter when a skindiver lost consciousness at a depth of 80 ft. Carpenter brought him to the surface, and Glenn hauled him into a boat, where the diver quickly recovered. Then Vice President Lyndon Johnson flew in from Washington to escort Glenn back to the overwhelming welcome at Cape Canaveral. "In my country," said Johnson...