"Live From Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, From Sputnik to Today (35 page)

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, Chris

Johnson, Lyndon B. attitude toward space program

elected president

garnering NASA center in Texas

inheriting presidency

politicizing Apollo project

signing Civil Rights Act

Journalist in Space Project, xi–xii

Juno 1

Jupiter-C

Kamanin, Lev

Kennedy, John F.

assassination

assessing NASA

authorizing moon landing

fulfilling moon-landing goal of

with John Glenn

understanding Soviet inferiority

King, Jack

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Kitchell, Jim

Kitty Hawk

Kolcum, Harry

Korolev, Sergei

Korzun, Valeri

Kraft, Chris

Kranz, Gene

Kubasov, Valeri

Laika

Landwirth, Henri

Lane, John

“lemon” simulator

Leonov, Aleksei A.

Liberty Bell Seven

Liebergot, Sy

Lindsey, Steve

Linenger, Jerry

Lounge, John “Mike,”

Lousma, Jack

Lovell, James
Apollo 8
mission

Apollo 13
mission.
See Apollo 13

describing views of moon/Earth

Gemini 7
mission

Gemini 12
mission

NASA hiring

photograph

Lovell, Marilyn

Lucid, Shannon

lunar module (LM)
Apollo 9
tests

Apollo 10
tests

as
Apollo 13
lifeboat

composition

limited operation abilities

test requirements

Manned Spacecraft Center

Mattingly, Ken

Max Q

McAllister, Mike

McAuliffe, Sharon Christa

McCafferty, Riley

McCall, Gene

McCool, Willie

McCormick, Robert

McDivitt, James

McElroy, Neil. H.

Mercury project.
See Freedom Seven
; Mercury Seven; Proj
ect Mercury Mercury S
even chimpanzees and

drag races

first-to-go decision

Gemini Nine honoring

leaving base for motel

practical jokes

qualifications and screening

response to
Swallow
flight

selection

supporting Deke Slayton

traffic-cop incident

See also specific astronaut names

Merritt Island

Mir
Americans training on

continuous American presence on

docking problem

emergency escape vehicles lost

fire aboard

origin of

Mitchell, Ed

Molko, David

Molly Brown

moon descriptions of, from first orbit

first landing

first orbit around

golfing on

gravitational pull of

origin deciphered

other side of, discoveries

rocks and samples

Shepard weeping on

See also Apollo mission names

moonwalk (first)

Armstrong’s first words during

camera shots from

collecting samples

description of Earth during

description of surroundings

experiences during

first step

mementos for dead astronauts/cosmonauts

placing seismometer during

planting flag during

moonwalk (second mission)

moonwalk (third mission)

Morgado, Javier

Morgan, Barbara

Morris, Frieda

Morrow, Lola

Moser, Robert

Mueller, Merrill

Musgrave, Story

N–1 rocket

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

National Aeronautics and Space Administrat
ion (NASA) birth of

finest hour

going to Texas

Manned Spacecraft Center

Mission Control

response to
Swallow
flight

slowdown orders

Navias, Rob

N
B.C
. astronaut training coverage

Atlas 10B
report

author starting at

covering every moon flight

first-ever breaking news coverage

Sputnik
reports

Neal, Roy

Neilon, John

Nelson, Bill

Nelson, George “Pinky,”

Nesbitt, Steve

Nixon, Richard
Apollo 13
celebratory visit

calling Marilyn Lovell

promising return to moon

Watergate

Northshield, Shad

O’Brien, Soledad

Odyssey

See also

Apollo 13
O’Malley, Thomas J.

orbit around moon, first

circumlunar

Eisenhower message in

See also Atlas 10B
(Project Score)

first American in.
See Friendship Seven

first American satellite in

first man in

first satellite in.
See Sputnik

Project Mercury stretching limits

White House ultimatum for

Orion

Page, George

Pentagon space program

Polaris launch

Porter, Steve

Powell, Bruce

Powers, John “Shorty,”

practical jokes

Proctor, Ed

Project Apollo disaster spawning new management

end of

Grissom problems with

lunar module (LM) tests

organization incompetence

politization of

reason for

Saturn 1B test flight

See also specific Apollo missions

Project Gemini

adjusting first crew

astronauts

See also
Gemini

Nine changing orbit levels

Project Gemini

(
cont.
) compared to Project Mercury

Deke Slayton management roles

praise for

purpose of

testing maneuvers for moon project

See also specific Gemini missions

Project Mercury-Atlas failure

See also Atlas 10B

(Project Score)

Atlas successes

Aurora Seven

chimpanzees in space

Faith Seven

Gemini program vs.

Liberty Bell Seven

orbit ultimatum

secrecy about first in space

stretching orbit limits

See also Freedom Seven
; Mercury Seven

Project Score (
Atlas 10B)

R–7 rocket.
See
Sputnik

Ramon, Ilan

Rathmann, Jim

Reagan, Ronald

Reasoner, Harry

Redstone #29

rendezvous in space docking and, first

first

Resnik, Judy

Rickenbacher, Kelly

Ride, Sally

Riley, Jack

Rivard, John

Roosa, Stuart

Russert, Tim

Russian programs accelerating
Apollo 8
mission

cooperating with America.
See Apollo-

Soyuz
;
Mir Eagle

extending lead in space race

first man in space

first spacewalk

instigating Project Apollo

N–1 rocket

NASA response to
Swallow

overcoming superiority of

Salyut space station

sources within

spy ship reconnaissance

Swallow