CBS News Extra: Project Mercury flight of Frienship 7
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Richard Bates , Joseph Campbell , Gordon Cooper , Walter Cronkite , J.R. Dempsey , Nancy Dickerson , Bill Downs , Dave Dugan , Douglas Edwards , Bernard Eismann
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Ten-part live "CBS News Extra" coverage of the Project Mercury flight of the Frienship 7 space capsule and astronaut Lt. Col. John Glenn who thus becomes the first American to orbit the earth. Douglas Edwards opens from New York with an update on the weather around the launch area at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Walter Cronkite reports from CBS News Control Center at Cape Canaveral on the scope of coverage to be broadcast by CBS; an animated film explains various stages of the flight such as orbit, reentry, splashdown, and recovery; Cronkite reports it is T minus eighty-four minutes; Lt. Col. John "Shorty" Powers of Mercury Control gives a status report as the camera shows technicians bolting the capsule hatch; videotape shows Glenn suiting up earlier this day and boarding the space capsule; Hughes Rudd reports from the home of Glenn's parents in New Concord, Ohio; Nancy Hanschman reports from Glenn's home in Arlington, Virginia; Grant Holcomb and Robert Schakne report from General ...
