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Guidelines or Commands? Several major labor settlements must be made before this year is out-in steel, airlines, railroads, missiles and spacecraft-and the Government clearly intends to define the national interest in terms of economic growth, foreign competition and national security. As far as most Americans are concerned, that is fine. What bothered both labor and management last week was that they saw behind Goldberg's seemingly innocent words another step in the Kennedy Administration's tendency to move into disputes (tugboats, airline flight engineers, steel) and restrict the negotiators' range of choice. Their fear...
...capsule after landing in the sea. Grissom was in charge of the capsule control system. Glenn specialized in the capsule's cockpit layout, contributed substantially to its design. Among other things, he suggested an auxiliary power system that was adopted by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., designer and builder of the spacecraft. Glenn's own Friendship 7 (which he named himself after consulting his family) was tailor-made to his specifications. He color-coded his instrument panel, arranged the 165 meters, dials, toggles, levers and lamps to suit his taste, and marked guidelines on his window to help gauge his observations...
Robert R. Gilruth, 48, director of Project Mercury and head of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, is the driving force behind the U.S. manned space-flight program. An aeronautical engineer with both bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Minnesota, Bob Gilruth won international recognition in the '40s for his research on the characteristics of aircraft in flight, switched to spacecraft after the Government picked him in 1945 to create an organization to conduct freeflight experiments (and found time along the way to invent the nation's first successful hydrofoil system...
...Kraft needed just five seconds to decide to abort the mission, timed the firing of the braking rockets so well that the capsule splashed into the Atlantic within 30 miles of a rescue ship. A graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and one of the original members of the Manned Spacecraft Center, Kraft helps coordinate Mercury support activities when not directing a flight...
...leave Glenn's retrorockets attached on Friendship 7's reentry. Yardley graduated from Iowa State College and earned a master's degree in applied mechanics from Washington University in 1950, worked as an aircraft maintenance officer for the Navy before joining McDonnell. Named project engineer for spacecraft design, he masterminded a team that beat out other companies by coming up with a space-capsule design similar to that on NASA dream boards, himself devised the capsule's complicated safety system, which provides an alternate or "backup" mechanism for each of its basic functions. After the first...