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Their Gemini missions successfully accomplished, U.S. astronauts can now turn their full attention to Apollo, which will make its first three-man orbital flight during the first quarter of 1967 and may carry U.S. astronauts to the moon as early...
...into a high orbit around the moon. Astronauts James Lovell Jr. and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. blasted off for the last of the dozen Gemini flights, and, despite a radar failure, performed with polished perfection the complex rendezvous and docking maneuvers that simulate those to be made on the Apollo moon mission...
...MASK OF APOLLO by Mary Renault. 371 pages. Pantheon...
Houston, the headquarters for the manned space program, last week launched a festival that on the civic scale amounted to an Apollo program for the arts...
...Apollo Simulation. Having taught so much with its failure, Gemini was able to demonstrate even more with its many successes. Within 94 minutes after their launch from Cape Kennedy, while they were still on their first orbit, Conrad and Gordon rendezvoused and docked with an Agena target vehicle that had been blasted into orbit only a few hours earlier. It was the first successful space link-up accomplished so soon after launch, and it simulated a vital step in the Apollo moon mission. After exploring the surface of the moon, Apollo astronauts will have to blast off in their little...