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...Beco-Booster cutoff during rock et launching...
...Gemini capsule failed, however, in its attempt to rendezvous with the burned-out second stage of the huge Titan II rocket which propelled it into orbit. The rendezvous was called off after McDivitt and White burned half their fuel in fruitless pursuit of the tumbling booster...
Menzel said he was not surprised at the failure of the attempted rendezvous with the Titan, booster. "That was always a doubtful Project from the very start. it's extremely difficult to get close enough to be able to link up in this...
...will not be a Boston Booster. The maiden aunt of American cities may well have discovered a fountain of youth, but rejuvenation has not made her more attractive. It is not so much the appearance of the New Boston that grates as its spirit. The planners seem more intent on building an "All-American City" than in living up to John Winthrop's hope of creating a "City on a Hill...
Molly's men began work right after a tall Titan booster had tossed them into an elliptical orbit 139.2 miles at apogee, 100.1 miles at perigee. There was a pair of biological experiments to get out of the way: the fertility and growth of sea-urchin eggs had to be checked for the effects of weightlessness; human blood cells were exposed to the stress of radiation plus weightlessness. Then, as the Molly Brown curved round the bottom of the globe and came up across the Pacific toward the American coast, Gus Grissom got ready for the first orbital change...