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Along the 18-mile route to Hangar S, cheering crowds lined the highway. Welcoming signs and banners decked the motels of Cocoa Beach. One banner read simply: WELCOME TO EARTH. Riding on the back of a white convertible, Glenn held Annie Glenn tightly with his right arm. At one point, Lyndon Johnson halted the motorcade to greet a small boy wearing a space helmet. Immediately the Glenn car was engulfed in well-wishers...
...morning of the Glenn flight, had followed the tense hours from countdown to recovery of the capsule on his TV set. After the speeches, the President and Glenn inspected the capsule. Kennedy ?on his first trip to Canaveral?seemed fascinated, and Glenn, in matter-of-fact "hangar talk," described the tense moments when he was reentering the atmosphere. During the inspection, Mrs. John Glenn Sr. expressed some motherly concern over the lack of space in a spaceship: "I'd think your feet would go to sleep lying there so long." John reassured her that in a weightless state there...
Glenn's trials began last December, when he moved into special quarters in Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S" to make final preparations for a flight then scheduled for Dec. 20. That shot was postponed until Jan. 16 because Project Mercury officials figured that mounting public pressures were hampering technicians in readying Glenn's Atlas-D booster and space capsule for safe flight. After that, in nerve-racking order, came delays caused by a faulty fuel valve in the booster, a malfunction in the cooling system of Glenn's spacesuit, a breakdown in the capsule...
Global Greenhouse. While Eltanin's biologists ply their nets and trawls and her radiomen tune for whistlers, meteorologists studying the turbulent Antarctic atmosphere will launch weather balloons from a sheltering hangar on the ship's stern. Oceanographers will study the tossing sea water by measuring its temperature, salinity, and oxygen content at all depths ranging up from the bottom. They will chart ocean currents and plunge long tubular probes into the ocean floor. The cores of silt they bring up will give glimpses of Antarctic geologic history over millions of years...
After a quiet Christmas week at home in Arlington, Va., with his wife Anna and their children - John, 15, and Caroline, 13 - Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, returned to the powder-blue crew quarters of Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn...