Word: orbiter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space, but from a personal concern that Glenn, the man alone in space, should succeed in his mission. The U.S. and the world had watched him undergo ten frustrating postponements, and could remember the anguish on his haggard face last January as he patiently waited his chance to orbit the globe?or die trying...
...Glenn's flight is only the beginning. The next man to orbit will probably be Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, 37, an Air Force major, a combat veteran of World War II, a fighter test pilot and an aeronautical engineer. Slayton is scheduled to take off on a three-orbit flight sometime this spring...
Trail Blazer. Following Slayton, U.S. space officials now plan to send astronauts on at least three more three-orbit flights, which will lead up to an 18-orbital shot sometime late this year or early in 1963. With more powerful rockets under development, the U.S. hopes to launch two-man capsules by 1964, keep them in orbit for as long as two weeks (U.S. scientists estimate that the Soviet Union may try a two-man orbital flight most any day). Most ambitious of foreseeable U.S. space flights is Project Apollo, which aims at putting three men on the moon?...
...next four hours and 56 minutes, John Glenn lived through and shared with millions a day of miracles. There was beauty. "I don't know what you can say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets," Glenn said later, "three in orbit, and one on the surface after I was back on board the ship." There was the wonder of weightlessness. "This," said Glenn, "is something you could get addicted to." And there was danger: "This could have been a bad day all the way around...
Eerie World. After liftoff, the next crucial stage of the flight was the separation of the rocket and capsule at the proper angle to put Glenn into the programmed orbit. When his orbit was confirmed at the Cape, Glenn jubilantly radioed back: "Capsule is turning around. Oh, that view is tremendous! I can see the booster doing turnarounds just a couple of hundred yards behind. Cape...