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Over the decades a large number of people touched the life of Wally Schirra in so many ways, and he had a surprising recollection for people he had met, quite often attaching a pun to their names. One person who sometimes shared in Wally’s pressure-relieving “gotchas” during the early 1960s was a wonderfully talented woman who will be forever (and rightfully) linked to the Mercury space program. Her name was Cecelia Rose Bibby, better known to everyone as Cece, and she was a much loved and high-spirited graphic artist with a feisty sense of humor.
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The author wishes to thank spaceflight enthusiasts and historians Lawrence McGlynn and Bruce Moody, two great friends of the late Cece Bibby , for their generosity and support in supplying stories based on interviews and years of e-mail exchanges with the lady. For further information on Cece Bibby by Lawrence McGlynn see the following web pages:
http://www.spaceartarchive.com/2013/10/cece-bibby-the-mercury-artist-.html
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Burgess, C. (2016). The art of space flight. In: Sigma 7. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27983-1_3
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