Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...held its breath when Alan Shepard led the way into space. It suffered anxiety as Gus Grissom swam for his life in the Atlantic. It thrilled to the historic adventure of John Glenn. Now, as Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter, 37, a wiry, laconic Navy lieutenant commander, hurtled three times around the earth, there was interest, but little of the intense excitement that had focused on previous flights. The nation seemed to be getting sophisticated about space travel-until, at the end, a harrowing, wildly suspenseful 57 minutes showed just how thin the veneer of sophistication...
...control systems was only 45% full. Flight Director Christopher Columbus Kraft ordered Carpenter to start flying the capsule by the manual control system, which uses a separate fuel tank. As Carpenter approached California, Kraft decided that there was still enough fuel for a third orbit. But he told Astronaut Shepard at the microphone in the tracking station at Point Arguello: "We still want to emphasize to him to limit his auto fuel usage...
...make things more colorful, coach Norm Shepard used all three of his starting pitchers for three innings spiece, and they all turned in tolerably good, although not dazzling, performances. Al Yarbro, who started, was the most effective of the three, allowing but one hit and one unearned run in his three innings...
Coach Norm Shepard's pitching strategy is at yet unknown, but chances are Al Yarbro will return to action. Yarbro, a fastballer, has been having his troubles this year, but if he is in good form, that should be the ball game. In the event Shepard passes over Yarbro, Dick Garibaldi (5-1) will probably get the nod. Garibaldi had won five in a row before running into the demolition crew at Holy Cross last week...
Yarbro has now had two poor games but Shepard said that he might have mind on other things. Yarbro's wife gave birth to their first child five weeks...