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...Mission Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was the sixth U.S. astronaut to travel into space, as part of a 1963 Project Mercury launch [MILESTONES, Oct. 18]. After overcoming technical troubles that threatened his Faith 7 spacecraft, Cooper was a national hero when he returned to Earth. TIME covered the mission and described the problems that Cooper overcame...
...BETTY HILL, 85, who claimed that she and her husband were abducted by aliens in 1961; in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Driving in the White Mountains one night, the Hills said they saw strange lights but then blanked out. Later, under hypnosis, they described being probed by aliens aboard a spacecraft; a tale that inspired a book, a TV movie and a wave of popular fascination with alien encounters. DIED. PAUL H. NITZE, 97, formidable diplomat and negotiator who was one of the principal architects of American's cold war policies toward the Soviet Union; in Washington, D.C. Erudite, brash...
...Early needle-nosed spaceships, designed for as little resistance as possible, were almost impossible to protect from the heat of re-entry. Faget designed a blunt nose for the Mercury, which created a shock wave that deflected the heat, a design feature later used on the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft, as well as the Soviet Soyuz...
Smashing into the Utah desert at nearly 200 m.p.h. was no way to end a space mission, but that's just what the GENESIS spacecraft did last week. After a three-year flight to collect samples of the solar wind, Genesis was supposed to re-enter the atmosphere, deploy its parachutes and be snagged in midair by a Hollywood helicopter pilot. But the chutes failed to open. NASA scientists believe some samples may nonetheless have survived intact...
...Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Whipple also discovered that the source of meteors is not far-flung stars but Earth's solar system. Anticipating space flight, he invented in 1946 a thin outer skin of metal known as a meteor bumper, or Whipple shield, to protect spacecraft from high-speed particles. The device is still in use today...