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...months, Astronauts Elliot M. See Jr. and Charles Bassett had been regular commuters between Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and McDonnell Aircraft's St. Louis plant, where the Gemini 9 capsule they were to pilot next May was abuilding. To both, the flight had become almost as routine as driving to work. To both, the twin-engine T-38 jet trainer they boarded last week for the 90-minute hop to St. Louis must have seemed about as tame as a tricycle...
...Ford clan turned up in strength, and the whole thing could not have been more urbane. Mother Anne Mc Donnell Ford arrived on the arm of her current escort, Ted Bassett, a kind of all-purpose man about town who posed for photographers between Christina and Henry. Uzielli's parents, also divorced, were there too. Mama was wearing a Balenciaga, and Papa, who works with Gianni at stockbroking, was squiring his second wife. At evening's close, as the last of the Piper Heidsieck '59 bubbled away, Henry pronounced himself well pleased. "Great party, eh?" he inquired...
Aware of the risks, NASA has insisted that Astronaut Bassett remain attached to Gemini 9 by a 200-ft. nylon tether. If both Bassett and AMU perform satisfactorily, however, the astronaut who leaves Gemini 12 in an AMU may well be allowed to sever his last connection with the mother ship and strike out into empty space...
...time Astronaut Charles Bassett climbs out of the Gemini 9 some time next year to take a walk in space, the very name of his mission-EVA (for extravehicular activity) -may have to be changed. Bassett will be not so much outside one vehicle as inside another. His air-conditioned suit with its $6,000,000 backpack containing 166 lbs. of assorted gadgetry will amount to a spacecraft in itself...
Perfected after six years of research, the sophisticated AMU (for Astronaut Maneuvering Unit) that is built into the space walker's backpack will give Bassett singular agility. It is powered by twelve small hydrogen peroxide thrusters that can propel it in any direction; it has its own fuel tanks, running lights, gyroscopes, and an alarm system that warns the wearer by flashing lights and sounding beeps in his earphones if fuel or oxygen is running low. With its own hour-long oxygen supply, storage batteries and radio and telemetry systems, the AMU does not even need the "umbilical cord...