10:09 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
`` I ca n't think of another thing but what 's sitting out there on Little Harbor Cay ! '' He walked up to the main cabin and switched on the RDF . For a few minutes there was music , and then : `` Flash ! The United States Government has just officially released the news that at 10:09 p.m. Eastern Standard Time the U. S. Satellite ejection chamber was successfully returned to earth at the designated location . This was some six hours earlier than expected . The chamber , into which Robert Joy voluntarily had himself strapped , has landed at an undisclosed site and is being raced under heavy guard to the Walter Reed Hospital at Washington , D. C . There is no hope that Joy is still living .