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[i]Scott Carpenter, one of the seven original Mercury astronauts who became a deep submersible diver himself, visited our mockup and was briefed on the NR-1. He was awed by its diminutive size, the power plant, and the daring conception of such a boat, and how much its controls resembled those aboard a spacecraft. He recognized the hurdles that had been surmounted to make it all real, and he understood the value of deep submergence and extended missions with an unlimited source of power. He told Nuclear Test Manager Herb Barry "Oh my God! There's a hell of a lot more going into this program than the one that's sending us into space!" When the ship was completed, Rickover barred Carpenter from coming aboard.[/i]
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