Leap of Faith

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They woke me up at three in the morning, in the dark.

I had been up late the night before, hitting the sack not much before eleven o’clock in Hangar S, the astronaut headquarters at the Cape. The hangar had been remodeled inside to accommodate our various types of training apparatus, a pressure chamber, living quarters and a dining room, a medical suite, a ready room, and everything else we needed to prepare for a mission. It was also here that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had offices and where our spacecraft were constantly worked on by engineers and technicians.

I showered, then enjoyed a “going away” breakfast of fresh-squeezed orange juice, filet mignon, scrambled eggs, toast, grape jelly, and coffee, with some of the key people on the team, including the flight surgeon and a few fellow astronauts who, through their good-natured ribbing, were determined to see that I stayed loose.

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