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...space. Before he leaves Gemini's cabin entirely, Aldrin will poke his head through the open hatch, stand up on his seat and shoot pictures with only the upper half of his body outside the spacecraft. NASA officials point out that Gordon and Gemini 9's Eugene Cernan, both of whom had trouble with EVA, took their space walks before their open-hatch photography sessions. But Gemini 10 Astronaut Mike Collins, who warmed up by taking photographs through his open hatch first, experienced no apparent difficulties during his space walk; it was cut short only because Gemini...
...mock-up of Gemini's equipment section. Dressed in a special pressure suit rigged with weights and floats that enable him to remain buoyant at a specific level underwater, Aldrin has spent hours practicing his EVA assignments under conditions that approximate but do not exactly duplicate weightlessness. Astronaut Cernan has also used the pool to re-enact his Gemini 9 experiences...
Gordon's troubles, similar to those encountered by Astronaut Eugene Cernan on the flight of Gemini 9, were proof to NASA officials that the mere effort of controlling arm and leg movements during a weightless space walk in a bulky space suit is far more trying than anyone had imagined. As a result, future space flights will probably schedule less ambitious space-walking chores...
Back for a visit to his old high school in Maywood, ILL., Astronaut Eugene Cernan, 32, joined Gemini 9 Teammate Thomas Stafford in narrating a color film of their flight and answering students' questions. No, said Cernan, he was afraid there was no room for ladies in the space program at the moment. "The spacecraft is so small and there are so many things to be done, the closeness of working together prohibits women astronauts...
Incandescent Re-Entry. Like almost everything else on Gemini 9's glitch-filled flight, space photography fell short of expectations. Just as he was about to close the hatch, Astronaut Cernan lost the film magazine and a lens from the movie camera that had recorded his space walk. As lens and film floated out of the spacecraft and into orbits of their own, he grabbed for them but missed. Understandably, Cernan did not follow. "I didn't feel like any more extravehicular activity," he explained. In addition, many of the 17 magazines of color film shot from inside...