DECEMBER 2015–JANUARY 2016 57 did what was needed in a hurry-up fashion, he said. “I shake my head that we could send a man into space and bring him back with that technology,” Roberts said. “We didn’t have computers. We did it with slide rules.” McDonnell engineers initially expected they would produce space capsules in St. Louis and follow them to Cape Canaveral, where they would hand off operations to newly Photos: (Above) Former Mercury Project engineers, clockwise from top left, Jerry Roberts, Norm Beckel, Dean Purdy, Ray Tucker, Bob Schepp and Earl Robb, in the Prologue Room in St. Louis. RICH RAU | BOEING (Right) McDonnell engineers perform tests on a Mercury capsule. BOEING
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