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Forum:	Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic:	Remembering Mercury-Atlas 6 (2.20.62)

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by spaceman1953: [B]<BLOCKQUOTE>[i]"One of my fondest memories of John Glenn's flight came from a box of Red Ball Jets," Don Pettit, one of two NASA astronauts now on board the International Space Station (ISS), told collectSPACE. "Red Ball Jets were a particular brand of tennis shoes that kids loved to wear. They had a little red sticker on the side that would fall off after about the first week, but they were really cool shoes." "In this particular box of Red Ball Jets was one of these really flimsy vacuum formed records. And that record was a soundtrack recording of John Glenn describing what the Earth looked like during one of his orbits. I remember that as a kid," Pettit said.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> Okay, I get to add something meaningful to the 50th anniversary celebration... Red Ball Jets! Made in Mishawaka, Indiana at Ball Band! While I don't remember "the little sticker" that fell off from the side after a week or two that was observed in the article, the Red Ball Jets I remember had a little red rubber ball emblem/logo as part of the shoe on the back. I think it shows up on that booklet shown in the article. I remember the booklet clearly and the little plastic 45-rpm sized record that came bound in the booklet, like the Apollo 11 record more of you are familiar with in the National Geographic issue of December, 1969. The Ball Band record was white. The back of the Ball Band booklet had pictures of the Original Seven astronauts on it. Man, if you were a kid in South Bend-Mishawaka in the 50's and 60's you HAD to have a pair of Red Ball Jets! Happy Anniversary Col. Glenn and Mrs. Glenn, who I had a distinct privilege of meeting in South Bend in 1972. Talk about seeming like two weeks ago! [/B][/QUOTE]
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