Men In Orbit
Sir, —I agree with Mr Wheeler that this correspondence has been below standard. As a footnote may I add that not one of the brave and unassuming astronauts had any more control over his flight path than an unfortunate insect would have over the flight of a smitten golf-ball to which it was clinging. Apart from firing their retro-rockets to end their flights, all they could do was to twiddle their craft about their three axes. John Glenn had to do much of his own twiddling because his space-craft was the first to suffer a partial breakdown of the automatic control system while in orbit, a record which the United States modestly did not claim. The others had emergency manual controls, too, but did not need to use them. —Yours, etc, COSMOSIAN. March 8, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29767, 9 March 1962, Page 3
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