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...majestic Titan II rocket lifted off precisely on schedule, hurling Gemini 7 toward a new chapter in space exploration. Five minutes after Lieut. Colonel Frank Borman and Commander James Lovell Jr. took off, a ground controller exclaimed: "You're right down the slot!" Command Pilot Borman radioed back: "That's the best thing I've heard...
Longest & Heaviest. As they set off for a planned 14-day, 206-orbit flight-longer by six days and 86 revolutions than any previous mission-they could expect better news yet. If all goes well, by the time Borman and Lovell splash down on Dec. 18, they will have been in the air for as long as the longest estimated Apollo mission to the moon will take. They will have flown the heaviest (more than four tons) Gemini capsule yet, and undergone the most extensive in-flight medical tests. (Borman had two spots shaved on his head and depilatory rubbed...
...about to give up too much of a lead in the space race. Last week President Johnson announced a hastily revised schedule that includes plans to double up on the next space mission, possibly in early December. Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell will blast off in Gemini 7 for their planned 14-day endurance flight; eight to ten days later, Schirra and Stafford will go up in Gemini 6, rendezvous with Gemini 7 (but not dock), and then orbit the earth in formation. For all the difficulties involved in the mission, the major problems will be on the ground...
...remaining two-man Gemini nights will be drawn from the 28 pilots still active. Scheduled for the next three shots: Major Gordon Cooper and Lieut. Commander Charles Conrad in Gemini 5 next month, Commander Walter Schirra and Major Thomas Stafford in Gemini 6 next December or January; Major Frank Borman and Lieut. Commander James Lovell in Gemini 7 early next year...
...BORMAN President...