Word: cernan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America deserve some sort of merit badge. Among the 32 million alumni are Cabinet Members Orville Freeman and Stewart Udall, Actors James Stewart and Henry Fonda. Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg rose from tenderfoot; so did the latest Gemini spacemen, Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and General William Westmoreland are old Eagle Scouts, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk was once knot-tying champion of the Atlanta Council...
...Agena rocket-the astronauts left Houston at 7:35 a.m., with See at the controls. Right on their tail in another T-38 was the Gemini 9 backup crew, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Thomas Stafford, who copiloted December's Gemini 6 flight, and Navy Lieut. Commander Eugene Cernan. Though an enormous cloud canopy hovered over much of the Midwest, it was strictly a run-of-the-mill flight...
...where the Gemini 9 capsule was being readied for shipment to Cape Kennedy later in the week. The plane bounced, hit the building again, then plummeted into a parking lot, bursting into flames. Bassett was decapitated. See was hurled through the shattered fuselage and killed instantly. Stafford and Cernan, unaware of the crash, touched down safely on a runway nearby...
...been lost during the 1,355 hours of U.S. space flights. The first fatality was Astronaut Theodore Freeman, who died in October 1964 when a flock of geese disabled another T-38. As for Gemini 9, the space center plans to send it off on schedule, with Stafford and Cernan at the controls...