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3 Flight
In addition to its live coverage, NBC News used a "f lashcaster , " a traveling news sign running across the bottom of the TV screen, to keep viewers informed of developments in today's space attempt and plans for its rescheduling.
Prank McGee was anchorman in New York and Roy Neal and Merrill Mueller shared anchoring duties at Cape Canaveral. Ray Miller of Station KPRC, Houston, reported from in front of Cooper's home. He interviewed Dave Schwartz, a NASA public relations official assigned to the Cooper residence, and Mayor Herbert Blackstock of Taylor Lake Village, where the Coopers live. Dr. Prank Field, NBC meteorologist, reportea from the U. S. Weather Bureau on the global weather picture for the flight.
NBC News correspondent Tom Pettit reported from the North American Air Defense Command headquarters at Colorado Springs.
The coverage included live interviews from Cape Canaveral with Charles S. Ames, vice president and program director of Space Launch Vehicles, General Dynamics Astronautics; Fred Radcliffe, supervisor of Radio Command Guidance Systems, General Electric; James Griffin of the Rocket Dyne Division, North American Aviation Corporation; Robert Goldinger, chief of Quality Control, General Dynamics Astronautics; Brig. General Don Winger of the Air Force Surgeon General's Staff, and Lt. Col. William Douglas, former physician to the astronauts. Neal interviewed Lt. Col. Douglas, Ames, Radcliffe and Goldinger; Mueller Interviewed Griffin, and Herb Kaplow interviewed Brig. General Winger at the Forward Medical Center.
Senator John Stennis (D.-Miss.), a member of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, and Rep. Joseph E. Karth
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