Flights of the Astronauts |
Contents
Night Before the Launch | 5 |
Suiting Up | 13 |
Reflections on Yuri Gagarin | 20 |
Copyright | |
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aboard Air Force aircraft Alan Shepard Alan's American Annie announced astro astronaut Atlas Atlas rocket Aurora began Bill Douglas booster boys cabin camera Cape Canaveral capsule communicator cheers clouds cockpit Cocoa Beach Concord craft Deke Slayton drogue earth engineers Enos escape rockets feet felt fire flying Freedom Gherman Titov Gus Grissom Hangar hatch heat shield helicopter helmet hydrogen peroxide inside jets John Glenn Johnny knew Liberty Bell liftoff looked McDonnell Mercury Control Mercury-Redstone miles minutes later missile morning NASA naut newsmen ocean official orbital flight oxygen parachute particles plane President Kennedy pressure Project Mercury radio recovery Redstone reentry reported retro package rocketry Roger Russian Schirra Scott Carpenter seconds shoot shot space flight space suit spacecraft straps suborbital flights talked technicians test pilot thousand Titov told tower tracking station Virgil Grissom waiting Wally Schirra watched weightlessness wires words Yuri Gagarin