Astronauts' Biggest 'Booster': Button Pusher with Prime Job

Astronauts' Biggest 'Booster': Button Pusher with Prime Job

Astronauts' Biggest 'Booster'

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A newspaper article by Peter Reich published in The Chicago's American. The article provides a contemporaneous account of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler, manager of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 (LC-14) and launch conductor, whose job was launching astronaut Gordon Cooper into space on a Project Mercury rocket.

Reich, Peter

Original newspaper article: Reich, Peter. "Astronauts' Biggest 'Booster': Button Pusher with Prime Job." The Chicago's American, May 9, 1963: Private Collection of Dr. Calvin D. Fowler.

1963-05-09

Fowler, Calvin D.

Digital reproduction of original newspaper article: Reich, Peter. "Astronauts' Biggest 'Booster': Button Pusher with Prime Job." The Chicago's American, May 9, 1963.

Dr. Calvin Fowler Collection, Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Originally created by Peter Reich and published by The Chicago's American.

Copyright to this resource is held by The Chicago Tribune and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.

Michlowitz, Robert

Cepero, Laura

"Faith 7 MA-9 (26)." John F. Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/mercury/ma-9/ma-9.htm.

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