Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 33, Navy lieutenant, 160 lbs., 5 ft. 10½ in., green eyes, brown hair. Episcopalian. Born: Boulder, Colo.; graduated University of Colorado, '49 (aeronautical engineering). Scott Carpenter went back into the Navy in 1949 to complete flight training interrupted at World War II's end, logged part of his 2,800 flight hours (300 in jets) in Korean combat (aerial mining, antisub patrols), then went through Navy Test Pilot School, General Line School, Air Intelligence School, became air intelligence officer of the carrier Hornet. He recalls: "When I was notified that I was being considered...
Walter Marty Schirra Jr., 36, Navy lieutenant commander, 185 lbs., 5 ft. 10 in., brown eyes, brown hair. Episcopalian. Born: Hackensack, N.J.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '45 (215th in a class of 1,045). Wally Schirra, son of a World War I ace, learned to fly a plane as a youngster ("It was in the family"), has logged 3,000 military flight hours (1,700 in jets). He flew 90 Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop...
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., 35, Navy lieutenant commander; 160 lbs., 5 ft. 11 in., blue eyes, brown hair. Christian Scientist. Born: East Derry, N.H.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '44 (462nd in a class of 913). In World War II, Al Shepard saw Pacific combat on the destroyer Cogswell, then won his wings ('47), and after a Mediterranean tour with the fleet qualified as a test pilot, flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's in-flight refueling system and carrier landings of the F2H-3 Banshee. With 3,600 flight hours (1,700 in jets...
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., 32, Air Force captain, 150 lbs., 5 ft. 9½ in., blue eyes, brown hair. Methodist. Born: Shawnee, Okla. After a hitch in the Marines he attended the University of Hawaii, got an Army commission, transferred to the Air Force. Rolled up 2,300 flying hours (1,400 in jets), graduated Air Force Institute of Technology, '56 (aeronautical engineering), was test pilot for experimental fighters at Edwards Air Force Base...
Virgil Ivan Grissom, 33, Air Force captain, 155 lbs., 5 ft. 7 in., brown eyes, brown hair. Church of Christ. Born: Mitchell, Ind.; graduated Purdue University, '50 (mechanical engineering). "Gus" Grissom broke in as a World War II air cadet, then went back to school, rejoined in 1950, flew 100 Korean combat missions (D.F.C., two Air Medals). Later he took advanced work in aeronautical engineering at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, became a test pilot, logged up 3,200 flight hours (2,100 in jets). Says he: "My career has been in service to my country, and here...