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...donned a silver space suit, walked to the elevator entrance-and stopped in mock horror. As cameras whirred, he grabbed a girder and screamed: "No! I don't wanna go! I won't go!" The TV men were amused, but not the NASA officials. Again, during Gus Grissom's suborbital flight. Cooper, who had been flying a chase jet, buzzed the Cape and momentarily disrupted communications. He was severely reprimanded, and it was that sort of stunt that a worried Mercury official had in mind when he said before last week's flight...
...Base, qualified for the rugged test-pilot duty at the pioneering Edwards Air Force Base in California-home of the world's highest, fastest jet, the X-15. A few years before his selection as an astronaut, Cooper took a friendly flight with another future Mercury spaceman, Gus Grissom. The two crashed a T-33 trainer off the end of a runway at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base...
Rigney and pitching coach March Grissom have handled the L.A. pitching staff superbly. With only one consistent starter, Ken McBride (11-4), the staff has totalled an incredible 316 appearances in 106 games this season. Although only McBridge has over eight wins, Dean Chance, Bo Belinsky, and Don Lee have been effective both as starters and relievers, and Rigney has even coazed good performance from the like of Ryne Duren and Eli Grbas...
Into Houston to visit the new, $90-million Manned Spacecraft Center that will be their headquarters by 1964 wheeled the seven Mercury astronauts. By way of welcome, 150,000 Texans lined a 1½-mile route as the seven-John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Leroy Cooper and Donald Slayton-drove by with their families. To Walt Schirra, hundreds held up six fingers for the number of orbits he is to make in the next U.S. space flight. The parade led to the Sam Houston Coliseum for a neighborly cookout at which 1,500 chickens...
From Canaveral. Grissom methodically reported weather conditions in the recovery area to Carpenter (four-tenths cloud cover, 8 knots of wind, 3-ft. waves...