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quick someone make a “what in tarnation” joke
As the song goes "some call him the space cowboy."
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quick someone make a “what in tarnation” joke
As the song goes "some call him the space cowboy."
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Everyone feels pity for Gus in those sunglasses so they listen to his stories and laugh at his jokes, 1961
I feel like either; Alan, Wally or Gordo did this on poor old Gus.
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“it was just like a movie it was just like a song my God, this reminds me of when we were young”
Hey its ok, I finally got back into space since this is what started me on the path way back in 1999 with the Apollo 13 movie.
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I’ve never seen any of these photos in color before! Mercury Seven scuba training photographed by Ralph Morse, summer of 1959.
Scott Carpenter was the most natural in the water (and later became a proud and accomplished aquanaut). At this point, Deke (in the outstanding bright red, floral trunks) either still didn’t know how to swim or had just learned. As Wally said, “Deke Slayton was the best diver we had—he went right to the bottom! Gus Grissom and I had to pull him off the bottom, and help him tread water.”
Oh I know about that story thanks to Moon Shot documentary on Youtube.
Listening to Neil Armstrong as The Wright brothers in dvd Kittyhawk @edwhiteandblue @neilarmstrong is something magical. You can purchase the dvd.
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3 legends of the space race era. Gus Grissom, John Glenn & Alan Shepard snap a pic during Project Mercury. The trio were among the 7 Group 1 of astronauts chosen in 1959. Gus was the 2nd American in space & the first NASA astronaut to fly in space twice. John was the 1st American to orbit the globe in 1962. He flew again at 77 years aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. Alan was the first American in space in 1961 & became the oldest man to walk on the moon at 47 during Apollo 14 in 1971. Space legends!
Ok guys let's take it from the top. @gusgrissom
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The right stuff. President JFK with the Original Mercury 7, Oct 1963. These Group 1 astronauts were chosen by NASA in 1959. In the front we have Gus Grissom & Gordon Cooper while in the back there is Wally Schirra, Scott Carpenter, John Glenn (the first American to orbit Earth), Deke Slayton & the first American in space, Alan Shepard. There were 6 crewed flights in Project Mercury; Slayton went on to fly on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. Shepard became the lone member of the group to walk on the moon during Apollo 14 in 1971. Space pioneers.
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August 24, 1960: McDonnell Aircraft proposes a one-man space station using a Mercury spacecraft.
This proposal was one of the earliest civilian space station concepts and would have allowed a single astronaut to perform fourteen days’ worth of science, physiology, and space technology experiments, as well as weather observations and Earth-surface reconnaissance. The design consisted of a standard Mercury capsule mounted atop a laboratory (station) launched into space on an Atlas-Agena rocket. After two weeks, the station would be permanently abandoned in orbit, so in a sense the station was more of a mission module for long-duration Mercury missions rather than a space station in today’s connotation.
Read more about the one-man Mercury laboratory here!
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Mercury astronauts Gordo Cooper, John Glenn, Deke Slayton, and Alan Shepard at the Project Mercury monument at the Cape, February 1972. The astronauts were attending ceremonies that commemorated the tenth anniversary of John Glenn’s flight, Friendship 7, which on February 20, 1962 became the first American manned flight to reach orbit. (LIFE Magazine/Ralph Morse)
As soon I as I saw that Mercury symbol I thought of Sailor Moon.
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