Wright Air Development Center Aeromedical Laboratories / Deke Slayton / S.B. / Space Task Group / Wright-Patterson Laboratories / D’Orsey / /
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America / /
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USD / /
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Product Issues / M&A / Person Communication and Meetings / Employment Change / Product Recall / /
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Wright-Patterson Air Force Base / Langley Research Center / Randolph Air Force Base / NASA Headquarters / Lovelace Clinic / /
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insurance executives / environmental control systems / insurance / navigational systems / media attention / recovery systems / onboard equipment / media contracts / escape systems / parent services / contracted services / public relations problem / biotechnology / media pressures / real estate developer / steel eel / insurance coverage / electronics / public relations / organizational systems / /
Movie
The Right Stuff / /
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U.S. Air Force / Navy / Life Sciences Committee / Medical Operations Office / Astronaut Office / Air Force / Kennedy administration / United States Navy / Pentagon / Life Sciences Advisory Committee / United States Marine Corps / School of Aviation Medicine / Public Affairs Office / United States Senate / Congress / White House / Flight Crew Operations Division / Experimental Test Pilots Association / Air Research and Development Command in Washington / General Counsel’s Office / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Air Force Ballistic Missile Division / Department of Defense / Langley Research Center / /
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Raymond Zedekar / Alan B. Shepard / John A. Pitts / Alan B. Shepard / Jr. / Bob Voas / Edwin Aldrin / Virgil I. Grissom / Paul Dembling / Eisenhower / Kennedy / Walter M. Schirra / McGeorge Bundy / Walter T. Bonney / John Glenn / John H. Glenn / Jr. / Annie / Tom Wolfe / Donald D. Flickinger / Abe Silverstein / Stanley C. White / Frank Sharp / D.H. Beyer / Henry Cooper / Jr. / George Low / William S. Augerson / Gus Grissom / Donald K. Slayton / Charles A. Berry / Joseph Loftus / John A. Powers / Charles J. Donlan / T. Keith Glennan / Steve Grillo / Walter Sohier / Leroy G. Cooper / Jr. / Jerome Weisner / Mike Collins / Neil Armstrong / Webb / George Mueller / Walter M. Schirra / Jr. / Robert Voas / Malcolm S. Carpenter / Wesley Hjornevik / Robert C. Seamans / Bob Gilruth / W. Randolph Lovelace II / Eugene Horton / L. Gordon Cooper / Jr. / /
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Executive Officer / trained astronaut / President / physician / national security advisor / Chief / medical advisors / author / press secretary / contractor / specialist in human factors engineering / Brigadier General / chief counsel / Administrator / Surgeon and Assistant Deputy Commander for Research / assistant / unappointed group leader / public information officer / attorney / psychologist / astronaut / nominal head of the team / Lieutenant Colonel / Carpenter / general counsel / outside astronaut / Lieutenant / science advisor / chief medical officer / medical director for both the Gemini and Apollo programs / medical consultant / astronaut public relations / Surgeon General / Army major / physician / and specialist / prospective astronaut / Lieutenant Commander / President Kennedy’s science advisor / fourth physician / Brigadier / assistant and then chief / President Kennedy’s national security advisor / Captain / /
CHAPTER 7: Precious Human Cargo “S paceflight, like airplane flight,” Michael Collins wrote in Carrying the Fire, “did kill.” But it had never happened in the American space program before AS-204.