On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:12:30 -0500, "Ami Silberman"
wrote:

My personal reading (having read both their books) is that Kraft didn't
understand what was going on as well as he thought he did, and no one, at
the time, realized how difficult working in space was, even within a
capsule. Carpenter's flight was by no means a carbon copy of Glenn's, even
though it was the same duration.

....There is my own personal theory as to another contribution to
Carpenter's problems. Having listened to the downlink audio and
Carpenter's tone of voice during some of his "confusion" episodes, I
for one wonder if it's possible that what was perceived as a loss of
coherency was more a loss of communications uplink from Houston. Some
of the "distracted" nature of Carpenter's dialog was very much the
same sort of tone that McDivitt and White had during White's space
walk; CapCom's orders to terminate the EVA getting "ignored" because
the uplink wasn't getting through, period.

OM

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