"Live From Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, From Sputnik to Today (36 page)

unsophisticated nature of

Voshkod

Zond project

See also Mir
; Sputnik

Salyut space station

Saturn V

Schirra, Walter M. “Wally,”

Apollo 1
disaster and

Apollo 7
mission

“Beat Army” prank

chasing
Freedom Seven

Cronkite reporting moon landing and

flying all capsule-type spacecraft

Gemini 6
mission

Gus Grissom and

last mission

military background

photograph

practical joker

pulled as Deke backup

Saturn test flight

Sigma Seven
flight

smuggling sandwich on board

supporting Deke Slayton

warning Grissom about hatch

Schmitt, Jack

Schweickart, Rusty

Scobee, Dick

Scott, Dave

See, Elliot

Shepard, Alan chosen for first in space

experiencing weightlessness

first flight.
See Freedom Seven

as
Friendship Seven
CapCom

frustrated about flight delays

golfing on moon

Grissom gagging

inner ear problems

introspection on moon

leading America back to moon

See also Apollo 14
leading Gemini program

leaking first-in-space status

losing wings

loving space

on Mercury-Redstone

military background

mood-indicator system

moodiness of

photographs

practical jokes

supporting Cooper

views of Earth

Walt Williams and

Shepard, Louise

Shepherd, Dan

Shuttles.
See
Space Shuttles;
specific Shuttle names

Sigma Seven
flight

Sinatra, Frank

Skylab

Slayton, Donald K. “
Deke” Alan Shepard illness and

on
Apollo 11
lunar landing prerequisites

Apollo-Soyuz
mission.
See Apollo-Soyuz

astronauts supporting

back on flight status

becoming chief astronaut

as chief of flight crew operations

corned beef sandwich prank and

demanding spacewalk fix

experiencing weightlessness

Freedom Seven
communications

Gerald Ford and

giving “GO” for lunar landing

Gus Grissom and

heart problem

managing
Apollo 13
problems

military background

as oldest space rookie

pulled from
Aurora Seven

responding to
Apollo 1
disaster

Smith, Mike

Snoopy

Soviet Union space program.
See
Russian programs

Strategic Defense Initiative deterring

Space Shuttles comeback after
Challenger
disaster

comeback after
Columbia
disaster

development of

directive to develop

disasters.
See Challenger
disaster;

Columbia
(Shuttle) disaster doors, importance of

first mission

NASA overpromising results of

nausea aboard

problems with

routine nature of

See also specific Shuttle names

space stations early ideas for

international agreement

International Space Station

space stations (
cont.
)

Salyut

Skylab

See also Mir

Space Transportation System (STS)

See also
Space Shuttles space
walks banishing woes of

Buzz Aldrin mastering

“cut loose” order

demand for correcting

experiences during

first American (
Gemini 4
)

first ever (Russian)

Gemini 9

Gemini challenges

repairing Hubble

Spider

spies and space

N–1 and

seeing Russian sites/rockets

Thor/Agena spy ship (Discoverer)

Sputnik

American public response

booster rocket sighting

dog Laika in

events preceding launch

impact on American space program

launch of

launching author’s career

news flash of

orbit of

R–7 rocket

size of

Sputnik 2

Stafford, Tom Alan Shepard and

Apollo 10
mission

Apollo-Soyuz
mission

Gemini 6
mission

Gemini 9
mission

NASA hiring

Starbuck, Randy

Stewart, Jimmy and Gloria

Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”)

sudden death, of author

beating odds of

brain swelling and memory loss

counting blessings after

CPR administered

defibrillators used

jog leading to

life-saving responses to

not going to light and

subjective experience

wife responding to

Sullivan, Pat

Swallow

Swayzee, Cameron

Swigert, Jack

TEI (Trans Earth Insertion) updates

Thiokol, Morton

Thompson, Floyd L.

Thor-Able rocket

Thor/Agena spy ship (Discoverer)

Thornton, Kathy

Titov, Gherman

Titov, Vladimir

Tornabene, Russ

Truly, Richard

Unity Node

Vanguard

von Braun, Wernher

Voshkod

Vostok V and VI

Ward, Russ

Warren, Ken

Webb, James

weightlessness experiences of

staying in shape in

tools used in

White, Ed

Wiesner, Jerome

Williams, Brian

Williams, Walt

Wilson, Charles E.

Wilson, Jim

women in space, firsts

.
See also

McAuliffe, Sharon Christa

Worden, Al

Yankee Clipper

Yates, Donald

Young, Andrew

Young, John

Apollo 16
mission

commanding
Columbia

corned beef sandwich prank

Molly Brown
flight

NASA hiring

piloting command module

Zarya

Zond project

Science advisor…

Physicist Gene McCall, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist, Air Force Space Command,

Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory,

Senior Advisor to Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force. (Ret.) Researchers…

The voices of Launch Control

Apollo’s Jack King

Space Shuttle’s Hugh Harris

And

The voice of the astronauts

Bob Button

This book is written from the files and memories of Jay Barbree and the following storytellers…

Jacket design by Mumtaz Mustafa

Jacket photograph by NASA