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Panama training for, 109-13
reentry and recovery of, 127-29
wing of, 116-17
Gemini 9-A, 178
“Gemini Nine,” 109
Gemini 11, 267
Gemini 12, 177
General Accounting Office, 83
General Electric, 213, 234
General Motors (GM), 2, 140, 213
German rocket scientists, 5, 22-23, 147-60
see also Braun, Wernher von
Germany, West, Cooper in, 80-81, 148
Germany Rocket Society, 149
Gettys, Jack, 82-85
G-forces, 43, 44, 59, 60, 87
Gilmore (lion cub), 99
Gilruth, Robert, 26-27, 66-68, 114, 115, 122, 180-81
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Faith 7 reentry and, 57-60
“fireflies” of, 46-47, 65
1962 mission of, 4, 33-34, 35, 46-47, 49, 179
as politician, 21, 119
in return to space, 264
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Goddard, Rob, 149
Goldwater, Barry, 193-94
Gordon, Richard, 267
Greece, 133-39, 181
Grenada, 196
Grissom, Betty, 165
Grissom, Mark, 165-66
Grissom, Scott, 165-66
Grissom, Virgil I. (Gus), 2-4, 17, 18, 22, 27, 159
Apollo 1 and, 161-66, 168
in Gemini mission, 118-19
in second suborbital mission, 30-33, 152, 179
gymnasts, considered for space travel, 56-57
Haile Selassie, 140-42
Ham (chimpanzee), 27-28
Hangar S, 1-2, 37, 38, 118
Hansen, Dowd, 242-46
happily-married requirement, 15-16, 71, 179
Happy Bottom Riding Club, 100, 101
Harz Mountains, 151
Hastie, B. J., 86
Hawaii, 61, 64
Hawaii, University of, 61, 102-3
heat shield, 34, 45, 60
Herd, George Washington, 69
Herd, Hattie Lee, see Cooper, Hattie Lee Herd
Herd, Mrs. George Washington, 71
Hewlett, William, 78
Himmler, Heinrich, 150
Hitler, Adolf, 150-51
Holmgren, Scott, 202
House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 24, 237
“How to Build a Tesla Transmitter” (King), 237
“Huntsville Gang,” 153
Hynek, J. Allen, 194-98, 200
Imboten, Otis, 186
Ingersoll, J. L., 87
“In Search of Gordon Cooper’s UFOs,” 75-76
instrument panels, 21, 42, 43, 50, 51-52, 62, 123-24
inventors, amateur, 211-13
ionosphere, 241, 242
Jacobs, Al, 228
James, Be
Johnson, Lady Bird, 113
Johnson, Lyndon B., 72, 114, 131, 133, 141, 153, 163, 167
Johnson Space Center, 265
Judge Advocate General (JAG), 94, 101
Junkers bombers, 153-54
Jupiter missiles, 148
Kearsarge, USS, 61-64, 70
Ke
Ke
death of, 131, 159
Moon landing and, 30, 71, 121, 152-53, 159, 162, 173
Kenya, 143-45
Kenyatta, Jomo, 143-44
Keutner, Joaquin (Jack), 153-55
KGB, 133, 139
Kiko Rock, 143
Korean War, 152
Kraft, Chris, 58-59, 123
Kranz, Gene, 165, 183
Lady Bird, 113
Lake Champlain, USS, 129
land recoveries, Soviet, 137-39
Langley Air Force Base, 15, 19-27
Launch Control, 114, 116, 164, 165
LeMay, Curtis, 182-83
Leonov, Aleksey, 134-40, 181
Liberty Bell 7, 31-33, 118
Life, 67, 71
Lindbergh, Charles A., 69, 71, 167
Linde, Greg, 201, 208
Loring Air Force Base, 191, 192
Lovelace Clinic (later Mayo Clinic), 12-13
Lovell, Jim, 76, 171-72, 177
Lowe, Nancy, 19-20
MacArthur, Douglas, 89
McClellan Air Force Base, 86
McDivitt, James, 77-78, 119, 172
McDo
McDo
McNab, Robert, 86-87
Malmstrom Air Force Base, 191, 192
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delay of, 27-28
first, 28-30, 32, 38
Ma
Marconi, Guglielmo, 235, 240
Mariner 4, 174
Marines, U.S., 63, 67, 179
Cooper’s enlistment in, 101-2
Mars, 148, 174-75, 263-64
Marshall Space Flight Center, 147-48
Masai warriors, 144
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 51
Mau Mau uprising, 143
Mayflower (presidential yacht), 93
mechanical astronauts, 28
Mercury (winged messenger), 10
Mercury Control Center, 25, 36
Faith 7 flight and, 41-43, 45, 47, 49, 52-60, 72
Mercury Project, see Project Mercury
“Mercury Seven,” 2-4, 16-39, 119
as CCGGSSS, 2
control system debate of, 20
defense contractors visited by, 19
jobs divided up by, 20-23
Mercury spacecraft:
backup systems in, 25-26
Ham’s problems in, 27-28
window in, 45-46
Mercury stamp, 19
meteorites, 125-26
Mexico, undersea treasure hunting in, 185-90
MIG-15s, 80
Minot Air Force Base, 192
Miramar Naval Air Station, 87
Mission Control Center, 114, 116, 121, 125, 128
Moon landing, 109, 263
Apollo program and, 72, 119, 158, 162, 169-73, 179
JFK and, 30, 71, 121, 152-53, 159, 162, 173
national debate about, 166-67
Moonport, 158, 159
Morgan, J. P, 235
movies, 3-D, 212-13
Muchea Tracking Station, 75-76
Multiple Wave Oscillator, 258-59
N-l rockets, 172
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1-6, 129, 131, 134, 152, 155-59, 263
astronaut-pilot qualifications of, 9-10, 15-16
Congressional opposition and, 174-76
Cooper’s departure from, 182, 183, 202
F-102s loaned to, 24-25
flight schedule advanced by, 35-36
House investigation of, 24
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JFK’s prediction of Moon landing and, 30, 121
Marshall Space Flight Center of, 147-48
public relations of, 5, 34, 71
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (cont.) space shuttle transmission and, 230-32, 262
UFOs and, 78-79
Washington headquarters of, 10-12
National Space Institute, 159-60
Naval Academy Prep School, 102
navigation, 98, 190
in space, 51, 57, 127, 128, 190
Navy, U.S., 12, 35, 67, 129, 179, 243
first U.S. satellite launching attempted by, 8-9
pressure suit of, 21
Nazi Germany, 150-51
NBC radio, 75, 76
Neal, Roy, 264-65
Nelson, George, 202-4
Neubiberg Air Force Base, 80-81
neutrinos, 258
New Republic, 69
news media:
Grissom’s treatment from, 31-33
“Mercury Seven” introduced to, 16-18
Newsweek, 90
New York City, German bombing pla
New York Times, 32
Nikolayev, Andrian G., 70
Noonan, Fred, 98
North American, 122-23
North American Aerospace
Defense Command (NORAD), 191, 192
Nuclear Nerva, 175
Oberth, Herma
Olmec, 188-90
oxygen consumption, 50, 53, 59
oxygen pressure, in Gemini 5, 120-21, 123
Packard, David, 78
Panama, 109-13
parades, 70, 71-72
Paynter, Bill, 193
Peace-in-Space Treaty, 162-63
Peenemunde rocket team, 150-55
Peking Peggy, 124
personality inventory, 12
photography:
confiscation of, 130-32
from space, 48-49, 51, 124, 125, 129-32, 254, 255
UFOs and, 82-86, 90
physical examinations, 12-13
physiological stress tests, 13-14
Point Concepcion, Calif., UFO sighting in, 86
Post, Wiley, 99-100
prayer, space, 68-69
Presidential Honor Guard, 102
pressure suits, 5, 14, 21, 25, 42, 99
last minute alteration of, 37, 39
Soviet, 136
temperature inside, 46, 53, 59
Project Adam, 158
Project Blue Book, 85-90, 194-96
Project Mercury, 2-6, 10-39, 41-53, 55-72, 153
Atlas tested for, 2-3
closing of, 72-73
coming-out party of, 16-18
first orbital mission in, 33-34
flight plans for, 3-4, 34, 45, 63
flying neglected in, 24, 27
Gemini compared with, 109, 116, 120, 124, 125, 128, 138
goals of, 10, 34, 36-37, 72
and launch pad emergencies, 117-18
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naming of, 10
one-day flight of, 36-39, 41-53
second orbital flight of, 34-35
selecting of participants for, 10-16
selecting of prime pilot for, 26-27
training for, 23-24, 26, 42-43, 44, 55-56, 107
what-if factor in, 25-26
see also “Mercury Seven”;Mercury spacecraft
Proxmire, William, 174-76
psychological tests, 12
Puharich, Andrija, 219-22, 236, 244
radar, 120, 124, 125, 238
radio, 75, 76, 234-35, 240, 241
Ramey, Roger, 83
Randall, Bo, 111
Ransone, Valerie, 214-22, 224-25, 227-32, 247-48, 254-55, 259-62
first “contact experience” of, 217-18
Tesla technology and, 234-41
Rathma
Reagan, Ronald, 193
recovery teams, recovery, 21, 32, 34, 56, 128-29
in Soviet Union, 137-39
Redstone rockets, 3, 9, 22-23, 28, 153
Regan Airport, 94, 96, 97
religion:
“Mercury Seven” on, 18
science and, 69-70
remote viewing, 220, 237
retro rockets, 56-60, 117, 138
Riedel, Walther, 155
Right Stuff, The (movie), 33
rocket boosters, 22-23
see also Atlas rockets Rockwell, 123
Rogers, Will, 99-100
Romero, Pablo Bush, 188
Roswell Air Force Base, 83
Roswell Daily Record, 83
“Roswell incident” (1947), 83-84
rudder pedals debate, 20
Sabotage Alert Team, 192
Sanford, John, 87
satellites, 8-9, 47
Saturn I, 158
Saturn V, 159, 170, 172, 175-76, 265
Scheer, Julian, 65, 134
Schirra, Walter M., Jr. (Wally), 2-4, 6, 17, 20,21-22, 33, 67, 76
in Apollo 7, 171
Cooper’s competition with, 61, 63
crew assignments and, 181-82
Faith 7 and, 42, 43
in Gemini mission, 119, 182
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