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A pilot born of pilots,came necessary to number them) and lived to tell of his encounters had a valid reason to believe that the gods were on his side. Especially those who took to the air in the AirCo DH.9 single-engine light bomber airplane.

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The making of a flight-ready astronaut,ic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the next step in the Mercury astronaut selection process involved stress testing together with his fellow 31 candidates at the Wright-Patterson Aero Medical Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. For a brief time, and much to his consternation, Schirra thought he had been scrubbe

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The art of space flight,t, quite often attaching a pun to their names. One person who sometimes shared in Wally’s pressure-relieving “gotchas” during the early 1960s was a wonderfully talented woman who will be forever (and rightfully) linked to the Mercury space program. Her name was Cecelia Rose Bibby, better known to ev

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, flies, system, Schirra’s flight was listed on the Atlantic Missile Range schedule for 3 October 1962. Launch time was set between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. (EST) to provide for at least three hours of daylight search time in the six-orbit recovery area, located some 275 miles northeast of Midway Island in the P

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,“A sweet little bird”,d Long Beach on 1 August 1962. A few days earlier, the carrier had been named the major unit in the Pacific Recovery Force for the MA-8 astronaut recovery operation. The commander of the Project Mercury Recovery Force was Rear Adm. Charles A. Buchanan (Commander, Hawaiian Sea Frontier). The designat

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Mercury, Gemini and Apollo veteran,spacecraft on 15/16 May 1963. There were no more single-pilot flights manifested, although for a time Alan Shepard led a spirited but ultimately unsuccessful campaign to add one final Mercury flight, which he obviously wanted to fly. He would later fall victim to an ear ailment which forced him to s

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