[net.space] We Seven

David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS@sri-unix.UUCP (07/27/83)

I came across a copy of We Seven in the CMU Engineering and Science Library.
It's pretty interesting.  Tom Wolfe makes a big deal about the Original Seven
not really being the best pilots around.  Scott Carpenter seems to admit as
much in his chapter of We Seven.  He described a zero-gee flight in the
back seat of an F-100.  The pilot flew a series of parabolic arcs, then
turned over the controls to Carpenter.  Carpenter could not maintain the
proper speed and trajectory.  He felt very embarrassed.