11 - Sinking the Liberty Bell

Frontier of Infinity: A Space Exploration Podcast

Following Alan Shepard's successful flight aboard Freedom 7, the US Congress make big moves to strengthen NASA while Korolev meets resistance in the USSR to his plans for a moon mission. Both the US and USSR launch their second men into space, but both of them are met with challenge and danger on their flights.
Twitter: @FOISpacecast
Music: "Crossing the Universe" by Ester Garcia
Sources and Further Research:
Books-
"Project Mercury" by Eugen Reichl
"Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space" by Deborah Cadbury
"The Soviet Manned Space Program" by Phillip Clark
Web sources-
Space motion sickness: incidence, etiology, and countermeasures - PubMed (nih.gov)
The Sinking of Liberty Bell 7: Gus Grissom’s Near-Fatal Mission | National Air and Space Museum