Fifty Years Ago: Friendship 7

[beamjockey]

America cheered. Here's how Boris Artzybasheff celebrated John Glenn's three orbits around the Earth.



Here Glenn, on left, helps an unidentified NASA technician invert Wally Schirra, a fellow Project Mercury astronaut. (During training in a pool, water had entered his modified Goodrich Mark IV pressure suit.)

Edited to add: Collectspace offers an interesting article on the secret space stamp of 1962.

Comments

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

So, you haven't actually looked then - preferring instead to draw a curve through a single point.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

The TIME site will indeed let me call up covers, a few at a time. Nothing there like a quick and easy comparison between years. It happens someone in this house has a subscription to TIME, so I've been seeing the covers for a while. 1963 was definitely a more serious year. Even when they show politicians now, it's in a dumb "horse race" context, or a focus on some personal quirk that they think will draw the eyeballs away from PEOPLE or whatever occupies its place by the checkout lane now.

But thanks for your sneering imputation. You are a jolly fellow.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I received your reply, Derek, and since I don't see it here I'm guessing you cancelled it after posting. Consider mine cancelled as well, in advance.