When Stafford is talking about the critical GO/NO GO calculations, he mentions either coming in to steeply and burning up or too shallow and skipping off into space. This was true of Apollo lunar re-entries, but Mercury was in Earth orbit and did not have enough speed to "skip off". If the angle was too shallow at re-entry, the Mercury would still re-enter, but it would land long.
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