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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1962
Page
1
Franklin Texas reports say Texas Attorney General Will Wilson announced Agriculture Secretary Freeman refused to provide a full report on Billie Sol Estes to a grand jury. U.S. Attorney Barefoot Sanders and William Elliott were subpoenaed to testify, with limited sections possible if demanded.
Senate investigators say they have questioned more than 1000 people in the Billie Sol Estes affair. An informant says many more will be questioned before hearings begin on possible Washington influence aiding Estes. The FBI has also entered the investigation of Henry Marshall's death.
Fragments from Continental Air Lines Boeing 707 believed to have crashed on the Iowa Missouri border were found on farms in Johnson and Cedar counties and near Mechanicsville. Items include hostess instruction page, insulation, napkins with Continental branding, and other small debris found by residents and authorities during a multi day search.
Rene Carpenter watched her husband launch Aurora-7 from a beach near Cape Canaveral. She and the four Carpenter children were described as likely the happiest woman alive, with the family later retreating to a private residence to monitor capsule reports. A nearby astronaut wife cried in disappointment as the launch unfolded.
Cedar Rapids report on M Scott Carpenter praising communications in Project Mercury. He stressed that complete contact with ground is vital and that loss of communication risks lives and national prestige. Carpenter noted Collins Radio Co provided spaceflight gear and now aids Apollo efforts.
At Muchea tracking station in Perth Australia a sweepstakes on the exact liftoff moment of Scott Carpenter was won by fellow astronaut Donald Slayton who was later assigned to supervise tracking operations after being passed over for the flight due to a heart murmur. Carpenter, stationed at Muchea during the Glenn flight, radioed messages to staff and even sent a note to an Australian friend telling him to saddle up Butch a horse Carpenter rode there.
Space officials tracked Malcolm Scott Carpenter on his three orbit Mercury mission as fuel concerns rose during the second orbit. He deployed a color balloon and reflective confetti to study visibility and debris behavior, while recovery crews closed in as the Aurora 7 capsule landed safely after a 4 hour 56 minute flight.
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, chosen as a Mercury astronaut in 1959, faced a tough tour on an aircraft carrier before piloting the second U.S. manned orbital flight. Born in Boulder Colorado on May 1 1925 he rose from a youth of missteps to naval test pilot and NASA navigator. He and wife Rene and their four living children live near Langley while Rene supports his space career and the family follows launches with pride.
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