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The Right Stuff
IV. The Lab Rat
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Name the two highest ranking NASA engineers at the beginning of Project Mercury. Abe Silverstein and George Low
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Project Mercury
“One, Project Mercury was a civilian program; two, NASA had not yet developed the rockets or the capsule to carry it out; three, it involved no flying…”
(page 64)
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Who was chosen for the initial testing of the Sidewinder air-to-air missile at China Lake, California? He also tested the F-4H for the Navy at Edwards.
Wally Schirra
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Wally Schirra’s wife, Jo, was the stepdaughter of Admiral James Holloway. What was he best known for?
The commander of the Pacific Theater in WWII
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How many MiGs did Wally Schirra shoot down in Korea?2
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How many combat missions did Wally Schirra go on in Korea?90
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the standard E.S.A. charm
1950’s Princeton club code for “Eastern Socially Attractive”(page 61)
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Of the sixty-nine test pilots that NASA briefed, how many volunteered to become astronauts?56
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Atlas, Navaho, Little Joe, and Jupiter are the names of what?Rockets
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How did Jean “Skip” Ziegler die?He died when an X-2 exploded while it was still attached to the B-50 that was supposed to launch it
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Where was the home of Lovelace Clinic?Albuquerque
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Who was the founder of Lovelace Clinic?W. Randolph Lovelace II
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Randy Lovelace served along with which two men on the committee on “human factors” in space flight?
Scott Crossfield and Brigadier General Don Flickinger
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Who was the chief of the medical staff at Lovelace?Dr. A. H. Schwichtenberg
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What was the purpose of Lovelace?The candidates for astronaut would be given their physical testing at Lovelace.
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Where did the candidates for astronaut go for psychological and stress testing?Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton
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Pete Conrad was labeled what at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base?Number 7
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At Lovelace, the candidates went through testing in groups of…? 6
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At Wright-Patterson, the candidates went through testing in groups of… ?8
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What does BOQ stand for?Bachelor Officers Quarters
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Where did Scott Carpenter and his wife grow up?Boulder, Colorado
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Scott Carpenter’s grandfather, on his mother’s side, owned and edited which newspaper?The Boulder Miner-Journal
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How come Rene, Scott Carpenter’s wife, dropped out of college during her sophomore year?To marry Scott Carpenter
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Who set the cross-country speed record, LA to New York, of three hours and twenty-three minutes in an F8U fighter plane in July 1957?
John Glenn