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...mannered realism of The Right Stuff thumps the heart of a traditionalist. The organizing principle of the book is an old-fashioned fascination with, and admiration for, the test pilots and fighter jocks of the U.S.'s first astronaut team: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. In addition, the book has a superhero, Chuck Yeager, a World War II combat veteran who broke the sound barrier in 1947 and rewrote aviation history in experimental rocket-powered planes of the '50s and early...
...after-hours whoopee. The current Senator from Ohio, Wolfe suggests, may have gone to NASA officials in an effort to replace Shepard on the first flight. Others, too, according to Wolfe, would act in ways that demonstrated that "feeling of superiority, appropriate to him and to his kind." Gus Grissom almost certainly blew the hatch too soon, flooding and sinking his capsule, and then stubbornly maintained that the machine "malfunctioned." Scott Carpenter, a man who could hold his breath for 171 seconds, ignored warnings about wasting hydrogen peroxide fuel and nearly skipped off the earth's atmosphere during reentry...
...Grissom Air Force Base...
...Virgil Grissom. Roger Chaffee, and Fd White...
...desolate plot of weeds was once the Saturn I complex, the scene of the space program's worst disaster: a flash fire that on Jan. 27, 1967, cost the lives of Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, and came very close to fatally dampening national enthusiasm for space flight as well. Recently, launch towers and other equipment at the complex that cost $68 million were sold as scrap...