111.   Phillips said he tried to calm Simpson, who said he would return to Los Angeles on the first flight he could catch.

112.   Pilots Hewett and Higgins will be the only crew aboard for the first few test flights but eventually the younger Hewett and other flight operations engineers will join them.

113.   Repairs, test flights and possible dates for the first flight have been minutely followed by the press here.

114.   Re-enacting the first flight is, Hyde claims, a secondary goal for him.

115.   Rhodes said minimum weather requirements for the first flight are clear skies with five miles visibility and cross winds of five knots or less.

116.   Rhodes said no new date has been set for the first flight.

117.   Significantly, the first flight from Macao went straight to Beijing.

118.   Smith said that if the second full-scale test was successful, the program would proceed to the first operational flight, to be launched from Antarctica in December.

119.   Shepard said the film was even less fair to Gus Grissom, whose capsule sank before it could be recovered after his first flight.

120.   Shepard was among three finalists for the first flight, the others being Grissom and Glenn.