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...Force Base, qualified for the rugged test-pilot duty at the pioneering Edwards Air Force Base in California-home of the world's highest, fastest jet, the X-15. A few years before his selection as an astronaut, Cooper took a friendly flight with another future Mercury spaceman, Gus Grissom. The two crashed a T-33 trainer off the end of a runway at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base...
Should astronauts be airplane test pilots, scientists, or a combination of the two? All present U.S. astronauts are primarily pilots, and a strong faction in the space business believes that their nerve, quick reactions and experience with flight controls are the indispensable attributes of a successful spaceman. Equally passionate scientists point out that spacecraft are not airplanes and cannot be flown in the same way. Space commanders of the future, they believe, will be cerebral types, at home with electronics, celestial mechanics and computer calculation...
...Everything is fine, friends," said Gagarin, Russia's first spaceman, from the ground station. "Congratulations. Till we meet on the earth...
...proliferating profession that swarms with specialists of fiercely focused brilliance, Spaceman Holmes supplies a varied and vital collection of talents. At 40, he had already earned a reputation for big-league engineering triumphs. He had taken charge of RCA's $40 million Talos antiaircraft missile program and had made the complicated bird fly right on its first try. ("The first Talos we fired at White Sands," Holmes remembers with pleasure, "knocked the target drone so flat they couldn't find the engines.") He had bossed the design and construction of BMEWS (Ballistic Missile Early Warning System...
...been tantalized by the dark vaulting dome of purple sky where space begins about 50 miles above the earth. As planes flew higher and higher, it often seemed just out of reach-an unknown vastness that dared venturesome flyers to penetrate it. Last week the nation's newest spaceman took the dare...