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...word from Washington is unusually grim: our own astronauts have, alas, turned from the ways of the Stakhanovites to those of the revanchists. Maj. Slayton, next man in the firing line, has been barred from space--his heart palpitates. And then there's Linda Glenn, 16, nation's sweetheart. This kid managed to delay her high school's election for class president until the day after Daddy's flight. Guess who got the unanimous acclaim of the senior class...
...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?...
...utter devotion to the experiment earned him the flight. Said he with a grin: "Maybe I'm a link between Ham the Space Chimp and man." Whatever the reasons, it was Shepard who was chosen by National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials for the first, historic hop. Slayton and Cooper busied themselves with communications; Schirra and Carpenter flew jet chase planes over the range; Slayton and Grissom were on hand to greet their buddy at Grand Bahama Island; John Glenn was the back-up man and checked out the capsule...
...Lieut. Commander M. Scott Carpenter, U.S.N., Captain L. Gordon Cooper Jr., U.S.A.F., Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., U.S.M.C., Captain Virgil I. Grissom, U.S.A.F., Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., U.S.N., Captain Donald K. Slayton, U.S.A.F...