{"id":767,"date":"2013-08-27T09:09:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=767"},"modified":"2013-08-27T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T13:09:04","slug":"the-atlantic-2060-minutes-gordo-cooper-and-the-last-american-solo-flight-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-atlantic-2060-minutes-gordo-cooper-and-the-last-american-solo-flight-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The Atlantic- 2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cool article from the Mercury era. It&#8217;s amazing what the human mind can accomplish under pressure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But a manual re-entry it was going to have to be. Cooper made his calculations, with help from the ground,\u00a0based on his knowledge of star patterns. In the process, he disproved the &#8220;spam in a can&#8221; idea that Chuck Yaeger had famously derided when it came to the Mercury missions: Gordo was much more than simply an experimental body in a NASA-piloted spaceship. He put his education &#8212; and his environs &#8212; to use, drawing lines on Faith 7&#8217;s window to help him check his orientation against the constellations outside. He shifted from passenger to pilot. &#8220;I used my wrist watch for time,&#8221; Cooper later recalled, &#8220;my eyeballs out the window for attitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/print\/2013\/05\/2-060-minutes-gordo-cooper-and-the-last-american-solo-flight-in-space\/275988\/\">2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space &#8211; Technology &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cool article from the Mercury era. It&#8217;s amazing what the human mind can accomplish under pressure. But a manual re-entry it was going to have to be. Cooper made his calculations, with help from the ground,\u00a0based on his knowledge of star patterns. In the process, he disproved the &#8220;spam in a can&#8221; idea that Chuck Yaeger had famously derided when it came to the Mercury missions: Gordo was much more than simply an experimental body in a NASA-piloted spaceship&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/the-atlantic-2060-minutes-gordo-cooper-and-the-last-american-solo-flight-in-space\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-cn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}