U.S. SPACE ATTEMPT
Flight Due Tonight
(N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) CAPE CANAVERAL, May 4. In spite of threatening weather, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration would go ahead with plans to launch its first manned space flight at 7 a.m. tomorrow (1100 GMT.), Associated Press said to-
day. Meteorologists said squalls were likely in the next few days at Cape Canaveral and in the target area 290 miles down range. The countdown for the next attempt would begin late tonight unless conditions worsened. Complicated checks and tests on the rocket and capsule would continue through the night. Once liquid oxygen was pumped into the Redstone rocket’s tanks any further postponement would automatically mean another 48hour delay at least, A P. said. Commander Alan Shepard, the Navy test pilot chosen to ride in the space capsule, had used the delay to rest.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29505, 5 May 1961, Page 13
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