Mr. Camper wrote:
AS-203 was the official title. They were renamed as AS when combined with the Apollo/Saturn.I was twelve at the time of John Glen's flight. Didn't appreciate it at the time but who knew then.
When I was in high school in the late 1970s my father, who was a science teacher, was responsible for picking up the guest speaker at the airport and driving him to the annual science teacher conference. The guest speaker just happened to be one of the original 7 astronauts, Scott Carpenter. I got to go with my father to pick up Carpenter, and he came back to our house for a few hours, so we got to talk to him at length. What a great experience!
