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Swaying under a marigold-and-white parachute, and clearly visible on millions of television screens, Gemini 12 splashed into the Sargasso Sea last week, bringing Astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin safely back from their successful four-day trip in space. The splashdown marked the triumphant end of NASA's remarkably fruitful Gemini program. Since March 1965, the Gemini astronauts have made ten manned flights, rendezvoused ten times with target vehicles, docked nine times, and set a host of other space records. They have also proved that man can fly as safely in spacecraft as in airplanes, and that...
Gemini's finale and Astronaut Aldrin's record-breaking total of 5 hrs. 36 min. of EVA (extra vehicular activity) relieved NASA officials of the nagging fear that they had overestimated man's ability to work in space. During two stand-up photographic sessions through his open hatch and a 129-minute "space walk," Aldrin experienced none of the difficulties encountered during earlier EVAs. He completed his assigned tasks without becoming overheated or exhausted...
Missing the Eclipse. After two successive 24-hour postponements caused by malfunctions in their Titan rocket's guidance system, Astronauts Lovell and Aldrin finally soared into orbit in Gemini 12. Using an optical tracking device in place of the faulty radar, they successfully rendezvoused and docked during their third orbit with an Agena target vehicle that had been fired aloft 99 minutes before Gemini...
...m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform, Astronaut Aldrin shot pictures of the earth and the stars for 2 hours and 28 minutes-longer than anyone has spent continuously outside his craft in space...
...week's end the astronauts still had unfinished business. Before splashing down in the western Atlantic on Tuesday, they planned a tethered flight with Agena and a space walk by Aldrin designed to evaluate man's ability to work in space. In another experiment, they will photograph a sodium vapor cloud released into the upper atmosphere by a high-flying French rocket to coincide with the passage of Gemini...