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Kapp, Michael
February 23, 1962
National Air and Space Museum Archives
Project Mercury MA-6 Astronaut John Glenn Press Tent (reel 5 of 6). A narrated version of the press conference (for radio broadcast?) Project Mercury MA-6 Astronaut John Glenn Press Tent. a man can take over control, Deke Slayton scheduled to be the next pilot (MA-7?), description of the Earth's size, Eisenhower - cooperation with the Soviet Union. Glenn mentions M. Scott Carpenter, backup astronaut. Glenn introduces his wife, daughter and son, mother and dad and mother-in-law and father-in-law and all the other wives and children. Questions and answers concerning, future flights for John Glenn, a description of the look of the stars, experiments that were missed are described, heat shield problem - 'experts on the ground' and 'chunks broke off,' most spectacular thing on the Earth 'it was all spectacular,' 'pretty speedy sunrise over El Passo, Texas. Identified the Imperial Valley and Salton Sea in California, physical training for future astronauts. Problems with depth perception for rendezvous and docking.
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United States Space Program Oral History Collection [Kapp], Acc. NASM.XXXX.0138, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
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