Talk:Mercury-Redstone 4

message: I have proposed that all Mercury missions are re-named. This will affect this page. So they can be discussed together on one page, I've set up a subpage of my user talk page for discussion of the moves. --GW_Simulations|User Page | Talk | Contribs | E-mail 20:38, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed Move

message: Has this been written by a 10 year old ?
:No, a NASA historian... 68.39.174.238 11:40, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tedious writing style 

message: The caption of the photo of Liberty Bell 7 says it is at KSC.  It is actually at the Kansas location, isn't it?  Bubba73 (You talkin' to me?), 20:57, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of capsule? 

message: I would recheck the sentence "Liberty Bell 7 is the only flown American spacecraft owned by a museum other than the National Air and Space Museum." in the paragraph "Recovery of Liberty 7".  I do not know the ownership claims exactly, but the California ScienCenter could be another museum owning a flown American spacecraft, which is Space Shuttle Endeavour. The sentence might be obsolete now. 85.180.58.156 (talk) 16:12, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ownership of spacecrafts 

message: Ninety-seven degrees Fahrenheit is nearly body temperature. Fifty-seven degrees would be perceived as a chilly room. Modern space suits are cooled (sometimes with a water-cooled undergarment) because the suit can get uncomfortable after a long period of wear. My guess is the original figures were right, with the cooler temperature inside the suit. But we shouldn't have to guess; we need to find a citation, perhaps in This New Ocean. JustinTime55 (talk) 15:35, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: 57 sounds right, given the amout of body head an astronaut would generate, plus the heat from the elecronics. After all, that's on the pad, not in flight.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura 16:21, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is moot; we have an even bigger problem. The numbers as given, in flight, are correct (i.e. 57.5 suit, 97 cabin); in fact, several sections have been directly copy-pasted from This New Ocean (!) JustinTime55 (talk) 16:29, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps what was meant was that the cooling fluid to the suit was at 57 degrees, not that the "inside of the suit" right next to the body was 57.73.81.159.141 (talk) 06:26, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: 57 degrees F. inside the entire spacesuit would have been felt as very cold an uncomfortable, indeed. The astronaut would have been shivering at that temperature!24.156.77.8 (talk) 18:39, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suit and cabin temperature 

message: It's not clear to me how sliced off does not contradict pulled asunder. Could you explain your reasoning here please? --catslash (talk) 21:46, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Sheared doesn't necessarily mean sliced; the This New Ocean source actually says: "When a mild detonating fuse, placed in a groove around each bolt, was energized, the bolts were sheared simultaneously and the hatch sprang open." There was not enough explosive to fragment the bolts (which was not the intent); it simply cracks and separates at one point, as if it had been "sliced off". The phrase "sheared off" is commonly used (at least in the USA) to describe bolts that fail like this. (I'm sorry if usage is different in the UK.) (Even though, from an engineering standpoint, the term isn't precisely correct, because the bolts fail from tensile (axial) stress, while the term "shear" refers to stress applied crosswise (as in slicing off).) "Sheared" is terminology commonly understood in the semitechnical, lay public, while "pulled apart" is inaccurate. JustinTime55 (talk) 13:20, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct!24.156.77.8 (talk) 18:41, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: What was the purpose of this mission?  Was its purpose different from that of MR-4?  Were they just getting more experience doing the same thing?CountMacula (talk) 01:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the NASA's press kit, the reason was to gain more experience and test some of the spaceship modifications. see here. --Golan's mom (talk) 10:55, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of the mission 

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message: I remember watching this flight as a ten year old on a TV set up in a classroom, as I had the first Mercury flight. Not ever in my life have I heard or read Liberty Bell 7 refereed to as Spacecraft #11. Who does anybody think would be searching "spacecraft #11", not "liberty Bell 7? What propose does it serve? Why confuse people? 
Jackhammer111 (talk) 04:36, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree: All of this nonsense about #11 is nothing but confusing the situation. #11 was merely a manufacturing number assigned by McDonnell Aircraft for use inside of its factory in suburban St. Louis, and that number is meaningless everywhere else.24.156.77.8 (talk) 18:47, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission Names