Word: joes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief testing point for Big Joe was its ability to keep a passenger alive. From the moment that it was hurled from its Cape Canaveral pad by an Atlas-D, the capsule's recording system went to work. Ten microphones registered the take-off noise-120-130 decibels (plenty loud, but not unmanageable for well-protected ears). Temperature readings recorded interior and exterior heat from more than 100 different points. Though Big Joe climbed 100 miles above the earth, malfunctioning booster engines in the Atlas kept the bird from reaching out to its planned distance; after thundering about...
...that instant, Big Joe's two radio transmitters predictably blacked out under an electrical blanket of ionized air. But a recorder inside kept taping instrument signals until the one-ton capsule recovered its voice, then began transmitting all the data that it had collected in no man's land. Slowing down to 700 m.p.h. in the atmosphere. Big Joe popped a parachute when it reached 50,000 ft., then another at 10,000 ft. It sizzled into the ocean at a gentle 20 m.p.h., 20 min. after takeoff, still beeping its signals. Homing planes quickly zeroed...
Remarkably, Big Joe's inside temperature, even during its hottest, fastest, most crucial moments, never exceeded 100°, a factor not lost on the seven U.S. astronauts, one of whom will one day ride into the heavens in another Big Joe...
Changing pace, the Sahara in Las Vegas was offering a "family show" (no nudes; Dan Dailey), and the first family of onetime Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio turned up for the occasion. Look-alike...
...Joe Jr., 17, with his mother, sometime Cinemactress Dorothy Arnold, 41, was having a final bat before returning to New Jersey's Lawrenceville School, where he plays no baseball, but puts the shot...