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...Robert Vickrey did a terrific job on the cover. He depicts Ed White and Jim McDivitt as the great Americans they...
That period is over-as proved by Astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II in their Gemini 4 flight, which ended successfully last week. Glenn and his Project Mercury colleagues showed that man can get into outer space and get safely back to earth. McDivitt and White showed that man can endure in space, that by his own skills he can cope with mechanical failure with little more danger (although sensing the same frustrations) than the ordinary Sunday-afternoon motorist. The historian of the future may well look back on the flight of Gemini 4 as the time...
...When McDivitt's wife Pat came on the radio, he said, "I'm over California right now." She said, "Get yourself over Texas." He asked her: "Behaving yourself?" She said, "I'm always good. Are you being good?" McDivitt replied, "I don't have much space. About all I can do is look out the window." When White's wife, also named Pat, got the mike, she said, "It looked like you were having a wonderful time yesterday...
...girls came on the line later with some advice that sounded more official than wifely. Said Pat White to her husband: "Now have a drink of water." White answered: "Roger. Standing by for a drink of water." Pat McDivitt told Jim, "Disconnect your headset communications at the neck ring from now on at the start of your sleep period. No static on that. Did you get the message to disconnect your headset?" McDivitt came in loud, clear and obedient: "I sure...
...their 22nd revolution, White and McDivitt broke the American record in space-34 hr. 20 min.-set by Gordon Cooper's Faith 7 flight on May 15, 1963. "I would like to congratulate you on the new American space-flight record," said the controller in Houston...