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...link between Ham the Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials for the first, historic hop. Slayton and Cooper busied themselves with communications; Schirra and Carpenter flew jet chase planes over the range; Slayton and Grissom were on hand to greet their buddy at Grand Bahama Island; John Glenn was the back-up man and checked out the capsule...
Then, at 900,000 feet, you'll get the feeling that you must have a banana!" The cartoon is excellent, but doesn't Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom have his left shoe on his right foot? JIM HONIGSCHMIDT Robbinsdale, Minn. ¶ So it seems, but not to Cartoonist Emmwood...
...score, then again to the seven well-publicized Mercury astronauts. Last week, with all the nonchalance of Casey Stengel reeling off a pre-game batting order, Project Mercury Director Robert Gilruth narrowed the choice to three. The trio: Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn Jr., 39; Air Force Captain Virgil Grissom, 34; Navy Commander Alan Shepard Jr., 37. After the initial manned flight is scheduled-perhaps in two months-one of the three will be chosen to ride a Redstone-borne capsule on a relatively short 16-minute trip: about 115 miles up, 300 miles out over the Atlantic (essentially...
Moving now into advanced training. Glenn, Grissom and Shepard will undergo even more rigorous physical and mental testing. They will spend two hours in a superheated chamber (130° F.), withdraw into a dark, soundproof room for hours at a time to test their ability to endure isolation, and will be exposed to piercing, high-frequency noises. They will also get extra time in the capsule simulator, a grounded version of the real space chamber, where engineers will pose a variety of possible equipment failures and the astronauts will have to deal with them...
...plain but wondrous fact: if a pair of monkeys, subject to the same physical stresses as man, could return safely from space, so could man. The first human to break the chains of the planet might be named Glenn or Carpenter or Schirra or Shepard or Cooper or Grissom or Slayton. These were the U.S. Astronauts, one of them to be selected as their nation's first space traveler. But whoever the man who returns from space, the way had been broken for him by a monkey named Able and another called Baker...