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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week stepped up its timetable for the moment when the first U.S. astronaut will be spun into orbit around earth. NASA announced that the U.S. learned enough from its first two manned suborbital flights by Astronauts Alan Shepard and "Gus" Grissom (plus, presumably, the limited reports of the U.S.S.R.'s orbiting Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov) to cancel a third planned suborbital ride. Thus only two apparent steps still remain before manned orbit: successfully launching an unmanned but human-dummied Mercury capsule into orbit (possibly this week), then orbiting a chimpanzee...
...evident, Gus Grissom's flight [July 28] was a complete success in every aspect with the exception of the sinking of the capsule. In your issue concerning Alan Shepard's flight [May 12], you mentioned that "if the Freedom 7 should start to sink, frogmen would be ready to slip beneath it and inflate a raft to lift it to the surface...
...third try, dark thunderheads lined the eastern horizon, threatening to postpone the flight again. But the morning sky cleared as the launching time (7:20 a.m.) approached. The crowds of official and unofficial spectators grew tense with excitement, even though most of them had already witnessed Shepard's successful flight last May; they knew that the odds against success increased with each try. Least excited was Grissom. Strapped to his contour couch, he talked by telephone with his wife in Newport News, Va. He told her that he felt fine...
...chosen impact point (302 miles down range)-though wind finally blew him six miles off target. Excitement rose on the aircraft carrier Randolph, whose helicopters were hovering to pluck the capsule out of the water. Second-by-second reports came down from space, Grissom chatting over his radio with Shepard...
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "The Protest"-an examination of American culture, with Radio Monologuist Jean Shepard...