A rousing, very entertaining adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestseller about the first seven Mercury astronauts.

汤姆·沃尔夫的畅销书的一个令人兴奋的，非常有趣的改编对前七水星宇航员。

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Other Mercury astronauts had to endure bite-sized cubes, freezedried powders, and semiliquids stuffed in aluminum tubes.

“水星”号宇宙飞船上的其他宇航员必须要艰难地吞下一口大小的方块，冻干的粉末和装在铝制软管内的半液体食物。

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Out of the seven original Mercury astronauts, three of them were selected as candidates for the first manned U.S. spaceflight: John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Shepard.

从7位最初的水星宇航员中，其中三位被选为第一次美国载人航天的候选人：约翰.格伦,加斯.格里森和谢泼德。

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Air Force pilot Gordon Cooper became an expert on the Redstone Rocket that would launch Mercury astronauts on short training flights.

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But they did something that the Mercury astronauts had not been able to do.

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He helped design the space suits that would protect the Mercury astronauts in space.

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Tom Wolfe, in his book "The Right Stuff, " about the original Mercury astronauts, wanted to describe for readers just what level of devotion the newly named astronauts had received from the American people.

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At the age of 25 after recovering two Mercury astronauts and keeping the Russian missiles out of Cuba he had to play the father role to a difficult 13 year old when our father died in 1965.

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Even the surviving Mercury astronauts--a plumpish Wally Schirra, a leathery Scott Carpenter, a frail Gordon Cooper--were there, showing the colors the way they always did when a member of their elite fraternity was setting out on a mission that would kill him or not, but in either event would provide him with that transcendent thrill he got nowhere else.

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