ASTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Mercury-Redstone 4, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard
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President eisenhower says that you can"t have some random person, we need to. 1958 meeting use a military fighter pilot. (known man, very experienced, good guy) Military: rank of the wife goes up with the rank of the husband. Explained that this is going to be secret as fuck. Some fighter pilots were mad because it would be the end their careers. Malcolm scott carperenter: super physical and nice to everyone. Flew some kind of commercial planes instead though. Leroy gordon cooper could fly before he could drive, amazing pilot, but didn"t want to sit through the training for apollo and lost his chance. John glenn from concord ohio, first person to cross the us, etc, and the guy flew friendship 9 and stuff (still alive) flew to sts as well. American and 5th person in space => first mercury mission, but the first person to orbit the earth.
