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[The seven Mercury astronauts are being shown their spacecraft.]
Gordon Cooper: Uh, where are you putting the window?
German Scientist #1: Window? There is no window.
Gus Grissom: No window? What about the hatch?
German Scientist #1: The hatch?
Gus Grissom: Yeah, the hatch. We need a hatch with explosive bolts that we can open ourselves.
German Scientist #1: I think there is something you do not understand. This is the final form of the capsule. No hatch.
Deke Slayton: What if the automatic controls went out?
German Scientist #1: Backups, checks, etcetera. This would not happen.
Deke Slayton: I said, what would happen if it did?
Scott Carpenter: The pilot would have to fly it back.
German Scientist #2: This is the way it is.
John Glenn: You know, I wonder how the press is going to feel about this.
German Scientist #2: The press? What does the press have to say about this?
German Scientist #1: Yeah, what do they have to say about it?
Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? Funding makes this bird go up.
Gus Grissom: That's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Gordon Cooper: And, uh, the press over there, they want to see Buck Rogers.
Deke Slayton: And that's us. Buck Rogers.
John Glenn: You see, those fellas over there, they've been making us out as the seven finest, and bravest pilots in all America. And if a story were to come out in the press that we were not being allowed to fly as pilots...
Alan Shepard: We want a window.
German Scientist #2: Uh, there could maybe be in future capsules, be a window, right here.
Gus Grissom: No, that's where the hatch with explosive bolts goes.
German Scientist #1: The hatch with the explosive...? Yeah. There could be a hatch with explosive bolts on the capsule.
Alan Shepard: That is a spacecraft, sir. We do not refer to it as a "capsule". Spacecraft.
German Scientist #1: Yeah. The hatch with explosive bolts on the... spacecraft. There. And there will be pitch and yaw thrusters which will enable the astronaut occupant—
Deke Slayton: The pilot. "Astronaut occupant"?
German Scientist #1: Yeah, the astronaut... pilot to have some...
John Glenn: [Holds up a hand, interrupting him.]
German Scientist #1: To have...
John Glenn: [Points at the press, then gestures to the scientist that he may continue speaking.]
German Scientist #1: ... control of the re-entry procedures.
John Glenn: Thank you. we appreciate it. You wouldn't mind if we had the press over here take a few photos of us by our spacecraft now, would you?


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