Jack Kemp

Rush Limbaugh's comments about the heroic efforts of early space traveler, now deceased, John Glenn brought me to an earlier time and a visit to the New York World's Fair in 1964.

Rush talked of Glenn riding into space in a capsule less than the size of a bathtub and how brave that act was. This brought back a memory of a visit to the U.S. Space Park at the World's Fair when I was a teenager.http://thedisplayers.com/missouri-pavilion-1964-worlds-fair/ Sitting there outdoors where you could walk up to it and examine it, an actual Auroura 7 space capsule flown into space by Scott Carpenter and manufactured by McDonald Aircraft of St. Louis, MO before the company became McDonald Douglas.

In this photo of the actuall display at the1964 World's Fair http://americanspacecraft.com/images/mercury/chicago/ussppk12.jpg you can see two men standing next to the capsule which gives you an idea of exactly how small this thing really is. Imagine riding both into and out of orbit for about five hours in such a craft less than the interior size of a bathtub. Today this capsule can be seen on display at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry in this photo collection at their website at http://americanspacecraft.com/pages/mercury/ma-7.html

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