Mar 15 1962
From The Space Library
NASA announced that LCdr. M. Scott Carpenter (USN) would be the pilot on the next Mercury orbital space flight (MA-7). Major Donald K. Slayton (USAF), the astronaut originally scheduled for the flight, was disqualified because of an "erratic heart rate," after the medical findings had been reviewed by an Air Force medical board and a board of civilian cardiologists. Astronaut Walter M. Schirra was named as Carpenter's backup pilot.
Editorial in the Royal Aero Club magazine Flight claimed that because the U.S. had made "six major launches on which basic orbital information had been withheld from world scientists," the U.S. was practicing "brinksmanship in space." National Rocket Club announced the establishment of the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Historical Essay Award, an annual competition in the history of rocketry and astronautics, the first such competition in the field of history.
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