Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same way. Gone from the Florida beaches were the jostling crowds of jittery, prayerful and sometimes ghoulish spectators who watched earlier Mercury flights. Newsmen on the spot neither applauded nor cheered, as before, as the rocket lifted easily into a clear blue sky. Even after Sigma 7 went into orbit, many Americans preferred to watch the Giants and the Dodgers slug it out in their final play-off game...
Nevertheless, the experiment was carried out, and Westford scientists assured the government that the possible bad effects would be negligible--foreshadowing future statements about high altitude nuclear explosions. Perhaps unfortunately, the needles falled to orbit, so we cannot be absolutely certain that the effects would have been as bad as anticipated...
...sort of feel badly about having to overcommit ourselves to these extraneous appearances." Schirra also complained about NASA's nearly 40-minute delay in flashing word to an anxious world that Astronaut Scott Carpenter's capsule had survived re-entry at the end of his triple orbit on May 24. "We knew where Scott was," said Schirra. "I was in Mercury Control, and we had six beautiful radar fixes within six miles of where Scott landed. We had telemetry after the blackout which meant he had gone through the 'G' pulse...
...began when Kennedy asked Von Braun and his fellow NASA scientists about the relative merits of the moon plans. The NASA program calls for a shot into moon orbit, followed by brief exploration of the moon's surface by means of a two-man "bug," after which the explorers will blast back to the orbiting vehicle and return to earth. The alternative, now discarded, called for an earth orbit from which the explorers would shoot directly to the moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner...
...from another, dividing one friend from another." One of the angriest tirades of all came from Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who warned: "We have spent 100 years resisting the magnetic pull of the United States. This will put us in danger of being sucked into their orbit. The whole position of Commonwealth relations will be changed...