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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	Americans in Orbit-50 Years (AIO-50)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B] [QUOTE]Originally posted by MCroft04: [b]Perhaps this error has been perpetuated by the movie "The Right Stuff" where I believe the CapCom told Glenn that he was go for 7 orbits.[/b][/QUOTE] Dwayne Day reaches a similar conclusion in the article linked earlier in this thread: <BLOCKQUOTE>What is the origin of this story? One suspects that it comes from the movie version of [i]The Right Stuff[/i] and the oft-repeated bit of dialogue from mission control that Glenn was "go - at least seven orbits." As he starts his third orbit, Glenn is told to begin his retrofire sequence and come down. He asks "Only three orbits?" and is told yes, only three orbits. The movie clearly implies that Glenn's mission was cut short from seven orbits to only three. It turns out that Tom Wolfe's book [i]The Right Stuff[/i] had the story correct. On page 332 Wolfe states "they gave him the go for his third and final orbit..."</BLOCKQUOTE> And indeed, Glenn was told, "Roger, Seven. You have a go -- at least seven orbits," but as was also suggested earlier, that referred to the nature of his orbit rather than the plan for his mission. [/B][/QUOTE]
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