Word: orbit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Babies & Memorials. Glenn's modesty, his cool performances, his dignity, his witticisms, his simplicity-all caught the national imagination. Newborn babies were named for Glenn in dozens of U.S. cities (one unfortunate boy in Ogden, Utah, was christened "Orbit"). Senator Alexander Wiley proposed a memorial to Glenn and his fellow astronauts in Washington, and Florida's George Smathers suggested another on Cape Canaveral. In Utah a move was under way to add another n to the half-completed Glen Canyon Dam. Glenn's space capsule, Friendship 7, was consigned to the Smithsonian Institution, to rest in hallowed...
...Operations Director Williams, "but it would have been a maximum-risk situation. It would have been a fifty-fifty chance." When Glenn lifted off last week, he, his capsule and his Atlas-D were as ready as they would ever be for a minimum risk try at attaining an orbit. And John Glenn, tempered by his years of preparation, never doubted his flight would be a success...
Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr., 37, flight director, controlled Friendship 7 from the moment the Atlas-D roared off the launch pad, had to make the heavy decisions about whether to let Glenn make a third orbit and when and where to bring him to earth if further trouble developed. Sitting in the Mercury Control Center, Kraft was fed a steady stream of monitored data about the condition of Glenn and the capsule, plus the prediction, cranked out by computers every 1½ sec. from Greenbelt, Md., of where Friendship 7 would land if the flight had to be aborted...
...conducts its space shoots has put Shorty Powers in the limelight, too. He would be the last to mind. Well aware of his role, he cultivates the deep, composed voice that, to a tense world last week, suggested that the nation's first attempt at manned orbit was no more critical than a takeoff from Idlewild. "I must not raise my voice," says Shorty Powers. "I must give the people an objective report without any display of emotion. Millions will be hanging on my every word.'' As a matter of fact, millions...
...they say, must mean that the meteor came from a place where life once existed. Most plausible spot: Planet No. 5, which some scientists believe revolved several billion years ago between Mars and Jupiter and later disintegrated to form the swarms of asteroids that now occupy the No. 5 orbit...