Just been guided to this thread - yes do remember baby astronauts being trained to hover in THI3M at Ellyson - also Day 1 at Pensacola (I was in the first group) I was handed an application form for the Astronaut program with the comment "Oh you're an Ossie - oh well fill it, in you never know...". Forty years later I'm still waiting - if it's good enough for Glenn it's good enough for me!!
A sad day was 27 Jan '67 when Grissom/White/Chaffee died - I was in the Whiting O Club Bar for the wake that afternoon.
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