The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1963 Page: 3 of 24
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Thursday, June 13, 1963 •!»» Saytowa 0m
Voyage Through Heavens Told First Person
Daniel Sikora,
• born June 12
(Martin Down-
■w, a daughter
n Jacinto.
Hie diary continues: ''Lightning down thruster, I get a shower of
these little fireflies. Hie light is
flashing now. It is the light. It’s
EDITOR’S NOTE - Hie Mer-
cury program is dead. Astronaut
L. Gordon Cooper Jr. was the
last man to fly the pioneer Mer-
cury spacecraft. His 22-orbit rec-
ord will ikely stand for two
years as the U.S. apace endurance
mark. Now the space agency has
released the Inboard tape record-
ings of the last Mercury mission.
or, are getting quite light, (pause)
"And (clears throat) I am now
on the day side. The sun is' not
yet quite up, and I urn observing
stars. The earth is light below me
and the sun is still behind me.
The sky looks dark above me, and
I can see stars vry distinctly."
The changes on the earth be-
low contrasted sharply with the
steady orediclable.world of space.
was being, tape recorded. Let the
diary tell it:
"Well (clears throat) first night
side and I have a bright blue
band. A thick, diffused band of
blue color — tne sun Is spread
out very widely. It’s settling now.
And there it goes. A very bright
blue band all the way around the
He also had troubles: "I'm eat-
ing a pot roast of beef. I've had
considerable difficulty getting the
water in it (dehydrated food in a
plastic envelope) from this water
device on the McDonnell water
tank. I spilled water all over my
hands, and all over the cockpit
here trying to get. some in it I
have succeeded in getting about
half of it dampened and am pro-
ceeding to at.
“I am washing my face with a
damp rag now. Certainly feels
"It is rather a strange feeling
to be able to place objects eut
into the—into tne cabin and let
go of them and they’ll stay in rel-
atively their same position. This
earth, that is.'Terrible cloud cov-
er. Venus and Jupiter. . . Jupiter
on the left hand of the window...
and I'm beginning to get brilliant
blue of sun rising in the East."
He had searched for the flash-
ing beacon he had released from
his orbiting spacecraft. But he
hadn’t been able to find It. Hien
the flashing beacon. . . The light
in sight. It is below me. I^is quite
a brownish, reddish brown and
considerable altitude above the
ground. Every time I fire a pitch
imsuiiiK iiuw. it is user u^ui. ii a
quite bright, quite discemaWe.”
Later, he said, "I have the
flashing light in sight again. Ex-
tremely weak, very weak, I tell
you. Just barely discemable. I
would estimate it to be some-
where in the order of 18 to 20
miles away. It is out, and the wa-
ter is very bright below. It’s quite
a lovely moonlight night.’’
After his early experiments he
turned to taking pictures for “the
(words omitted) people." i
is worrisome as well as an odd
sensation, handy sometime,
but ah.”
The only close-up description of
(AP)—Negroes
five previous-
nesday as the
ils opened for
desegregated
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One minute Cooper was report-
tag:
‘Coming in over the coast of '
* Moo Tt'c iionu n\aur> horp Nn '
Africa, It's very clear here. No
clouds. No haze. I’ll try and snap
(some pictures) of the Atlas
Mountains. , . It's very dry, very
clear over Africa. We’re drifting
window down, ideal attitude."
Half an hour later — over the
was reported
etween a Ne-
>uth behind a
nee from the
•k. Both were
the time.
Beerman said
ficance to the
Ul IUW1W, Uttll ttJIU'JS
the Individual houses.
everything turned off, and Just
space, Cooper reported to his di-
ary:
"And I have the haze layer that
Wally (Schirra, a fellow astro-
naut) was'talking about. I can
see the stars down in it. And it
i*' — up and around the earth
—to a number of degrees... I can
see the stars above it. I can see
HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) - As
you’d expect of a quiet man
thrust suddenly into the focus of
the world’s eye, Astronaut L. Gor-
don Cooper Jr. told of his space
adventure best to himself and
his diary.
That diary — tape recordings
south Indian Ocean — Coop*
ported:
"I am now drifting on the
side. I have the moon in
I’m upside down. I’m obse
okesman es-
ools by white
figures were
Give Dad Sure-to-Please Work and Time-Saving
he made on his 22 rapid-fire days
and nights in —~was re- the stars down in It.
llfhtning flashes from constdenF —
leased today by the National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration.
It is a graphic account of a
man alone in his space cabin on
what has become the last flight of
‘T have seen several lightning ble-size thunderstorms that are
ashes on the ground now. I see below me. These create static in
lem on the earth now. the radio every time the lightning
"And there Is Orion, Betel- flashes down there."
iiese. What a beautiful night to Earlier, he said, "people won-
ght.” der if it’s hard to sleep up here.
ct from the ground as he came nap. Sleep here just like you do
ithin range of stations under his anywhere else.”
ight path. But then he returned As the diary rolls on, Cooper
his diary: seems to be getting more accus-
"Ha-ha And now at this time tomed to the wonders of passing
7 . I’m observing John’s days and nights, fireflies and
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tu jrrais,--------------
There is no assurance that the
transcript is complete. Parts of
the transcription were garbled.
Parts may have been deleted for
security reasons. And once the
that endangered the
valked up to
men on duty
and asked,
lave to save
I wouldn’t."
reply.
troubles t'l ~ ___I 1_
Cooper flight showed up he ap-
parently gave up his private
tape recording.
Conspicuous by its absence is
any description of the remarkable
details Major Cooper said he saw
of a truck, a train and other
signs of life in the high Himalayas,
including part of Red China.
But aside from that, Cooper-
in the privacy of his space cabin
-seems finally relaxed and alone
with the heavens, despite an ap-
parent initial overawareness he
. aloud about them.
"Sunrise—and the sun is in be-
hind me. . . to the rear of me.
With Saturn along by it-and I’m
getting John’s fireflies again,
coming off the spacecraft. And
you could almost align yaw (the
4 Days Only
direction -the spacecraft is point-
tag, right or left) by the fire-flies.
They drift away to the rear. . .
of the flight path.”
He was later to pinpoint the
source of the fireflies—tiny icicles
from the small jets that enable
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Space Administration, the agency “
announced.
NASA headquarters in Washing-
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grant to the University of Hous-
ton for training graduate students
fa space-related science, a $102,-
000 grant to Texas Technological
Grumman Aircraft Engineering,
Bethpage, N.Y., $12.5 million;
lunar excursion module develop-
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Beckman Instruments, Fuller-
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 251, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1963, newspaper, June 13, 1963; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044298/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.