“The main trouble with the Mercury capsule was that most system components were in the pilot’s cabin; and often, to pack them in this very confined space, they had to be stacked like a layer cake and components of one system had to be scattered about the craft to use all available space. This arrangement generated a maze of interconnecting wires, tubing, and mechanical linkages. To replace one malfunctioning system, other systems had to be disturbed; and then, after the trouble had been corrected, the systems that had been disturbed as well as the malfunctioning system had to be checked out again.” James Chamberlin
Space Rocket History #39 – The First Woman in Space, Vostok 5 & 6 with Bykovsky and Tereshkova – Part 1
Space Rocket History #38 – Syncom 1,2,3, and TIROS 8
Space Rocket History #37 – Flight of Faith 7, Mercury-Atlas 9 with Gordon Cooper
Space Rocket History #36 – Mariner 2 and Relay 1
Space Rocket History #35 – Textbook Spaceflight – Mercury-Atlas 8, Sigmac 7 with Wally Schirra
Space Rocket History #34 – Group Flight – Vostok 3 and 4
Space Rocket History #33 – Science Overload – Mercury-Atlas 7, Aurora 7 with Scott Carpenter
Space Rocket History #32 – Ranger-4, Ariel-1, and Telstar-1
Space Rocket History #31 – Godspeed John Glenn – Mercury-Atlas 6 – Friendship 7 – Part 2
Space Rocket History #30 – Godspeed John Glenn – Mercury-Atlas 6 – Friendship 7 – Part 1
Space Rocket History #29 – Mercury-Atlas 5 With Enos
Space Rocket History #28 – Vostok 2 With Gherman Titov
Space Rocket History #27 – Mercury-Redstone 4 – Liberty Bell 7 with Gus Grissom
Space Rocket History #26 – Why the Moon?
Space Rocket History #25 – Mercury Redstone 3 – Freedom 7 with Alan Shepard
Space Rocket History #24 – Mercury Redstone Test Flights – Ham in a Can
Space Rocket History #23 – Vostok 1 with Yuri Gagarin
Space Rocket History #22 – The Vanguard Six
Space Rocket History #21 – Cry Havoc and Launch the Dogs of Vostok!
Space Rocket History #20 – Tiros 1 and Echo 1 – The First Weather and Communications Satellites
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