81.   Fellow Mercury astronaut Wally Schirra says heroes may have been easier to create in the early days of the space program, when American society was more forgiving.

82.   For students interested in the space program, the current space shuttle mission is offering the next best thing to being there.

83.   For the Chinese the launch was a vital step on the road to an ambitious space program.

84.   For years similar rumors have circulated about the Russian space program.

85.   From that day on, Bennett was wedded to the space program.

86.   From the Earth to the Moon, coincidentally, is also the title of a Tom Hanks-produced HBO miniseries about the space program.

87.   Funding for them is buried in the Defense Department budget in innocuous accounts like those for Air Force space programs.

88.   Gordon Cooper and Wally Schirra were much enthused for Glenn and the future of the space program.

89.   Garry Henderson has a doctorate in geophysics and worked on the Apollo space program.

90.   And as one writer drily noted, the only people frightened by the Russian space program today are its cosmonauts.