_Live From Cape Canaveral_ - Jay Barbree [130]
image and qualifications
Mercury flight
photographs
practical jokes
saving Mercury mission
traffic-cop incident
corned beef sandwich prank
Costello, Tom
Couric, Katie
Covey, Dick
Crippen, Robert “Crip,”
Cronkite, Walter
Destiny Laboratory
disasters and near-disasters Apollo 1
Aurora Seven
Friendship Seven
Gemini 8 reentry
Mercury-Redstone rocket
Mir fire and docking problem
Polaris launch
Soviet Voshkod
Vanguard
See also Apollo 13; Challenger disaster;
Columbia (Shuttle) disaster
Discoverer spy ship
Discovery flying after Challenger disaster
flying after Columbia disaster
John Glenn returning to space on
releasing Hubble
station keeping with Mir
docking in space, first
Douglas, Bill
drag races
Duke, Charlie
Eagle (Apollo 11 lunar module)
Eagle (Russian ship)
early days
Eisenhower, Dwight David message in space
responding to Sputnik pressure
response to Vanguard failure
Sputnik beating U.S. to space and
Endeavour (Apollo 15)
Endeavour (Shuttle)
Engle, Joe
Enos, the chimpanzee
equal rights battle
equigravisphere
Evans, Ron
Explorer 1
Faith Seven
Falcon
Farley, Jim
firefly-like lights
firsts American black astronaut
American in orbit. See Friendship Seven
American satellite. See Juno 1
American woman astronaut
American/Soviet mission. See Apollo-
Soyuz docking in space
landing on moon
man in space
moonwalk
orbit around moon
rendezvous in space
Russian satellite. See Sputnik
Shuttle mission
spacewalk
women in space
See also McAuliffe, Sharon Christa
Fitzgerald, Bill
Foale, Mike
Ford, Gerald
Frank, David
Freedom Seven
buffeting of
countdown/liftoff
crowd reaction
F–106 jets accompanying
forces on Shepard
Louise Shepard and
manual control
media coverage
recovery
return to Earth/splashdown
Freedom Seven, (cont.) righting landed capsule
separation from Redstone rocket
Shepard into capsule
views of Earth
weightlessness and
Friendship Seven
chimpanzee flight prior to
crowds watching
delays
firefly-like lights around
forces on Glenn
Glenn describing view from
heat shield problems
launch of
media coverage
near disaster
in orbit
prelaunch activities
reentry difficulties
splashdown
verifying Glenn on board
future vision
Gagarin, Yuri cosmonaut program
early years/flight training
first in space (Swallow)
landing from space
Gannett, Dixon
Garman, Jack
Garn, Jake
Gemini 3
Gemini 4
Gemini 5
Gemini 6
Gemini 7
Gemini 8
Gemini 9
Gemini 10
Gemini 11
Gemini 12
Gemini Nine astronauts
“honoring” Mercury Seven
Mercury Seven prank
Gemini program. See Project Gemini; specific Gemini missions
Gibbs, Asa
Gibson, Robert “Hoot,”
Gilruth, Robert
Glenn, John
anticipated as first in space
Christmas Eve with author
first American in orbit. See Friendship Seven
helping Cooper return from space
as hero
as Mercury backup
military background
millennium party on launch pad of
photographs
returning to space
on Russia beating U.S.
supporting Deke Slayton
Gold, Herb
golfing on moon
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordon, Dick
Gralnick, Jeff
Griffin, Michael
Griffin, Phil
Grine, Ken
Grissom, Betty
Grissom, Virgil “Gus,”
Apollo 1 disaster
burial at Arlington
concerns with Apollo program
death of
Frank Sinatra and
gagging Alan Shepard
as Gemini 4 CapCom
hatch problems and
JFK and
“lemon” simulator
Liberty Bell Seven sinking and
Mercury flight
military background
Molly Brown flight
photographs
requiring parachute
seasickness
speeding away from cops
supporting Deke Slayton
Wally Schirra warning about hatch
Gumdrop
Hager, Robert
Haise, Fred
Hall, Debi
Ham, Linda
Ham, the chimpanzee
Harris, Gordon
Harris, Hugh
Hauck, Frederick H. “Rick,”
Hawking, Stephen
Hello, Buzz
Hilmers, Dave
Hinkley, Duane
Hobaugh, Charles
Hoffman, Jeffrey
Houston, Cecil
Hubble telescope COSTAR fix for
Discovery deploying
flaws
future of
repair mission
testing repairs
vision reach
Huntley, Chet
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Husband, Rick
International Space Station
Intrepid
Irwin, Jim
Jacobs, Jerry
Jansing,