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Some time next week, Navy Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr. is supposed to blast off on a six-orbit space trip around the earth. But last week Schirra blasted off without ever leaving the ground. And what he said sent officials scurrying for their hard hats...
...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...
...Thurs., Sept. 13 Our Next Man in Space (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). A filmed profile of Astronaut Wal ter Schirra Jr., who is scheduled to make the next space flight, a six-orbit...