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...flight plan next called for a boost to a 460-mile-high orbit, but that had to be canceled when telemetry disclosed problems with Agena's propellant pump. Instead, the astronauts made another and equally remarkable rendezvous-with the moon's circular shadow, which was racing across the Pacific at 1,060 m.p.h. during Saturday's eclipse of the sun. In the brief seven seconds that they flew through the corridor of total eclipse, the astronauts shot movies and still pictures of the blacked-out solar disk. Then, standing in the open hatch of his orbiting platform...
...found that Valerie had been stabbed six times around her nose and left eye, once in the neck, twice in the chest and twice in the stomach. There were four cone-shaped puncture wounds in her skull, all caused by heavy, bludgeon-like blows. Dr. Hohf slowly descended the circular staircase to the living room where Percy, Loraine, Sharon and Gail sat in wordless shock. Percy rose, and Hohf said: "Valerie is gone. She is dead...
...implications of that problem, Mission Project Manager Clifford Nelson was delighted with how easily the spacecraft had first kicked into lunar orbit. "It was like switching it from one railroad track to another," he bragged. As the week passed, the orbiter's original elliptical path slowly became circular because of irregularities in the earth's gravitational pull. Even so, the orbital change will apparently not endanger the spacecraft's mission of taking several hundred pictures of assorted lunar sites...
...high, far-flung orbit also placed the coupled craft in position to begin a rendezvous with a second target: Agena 8, lifeless but still riding on a nearly circular orbit after its role in the aborted Gemini 8 mission four months earlier. At first, last week's Gemini-Agena was 3,220 miles ahead of Agena 8; during the next several hours, the dead target ship-revolving around the earth every 99 minutes, compared to 101 minutes for Gemini-Agena-slowly passed the sleeping astronauts...
...biggest one g. we ever saw." Because the thrust was against the direction of flight, it had a braking effect, reducing Gemini-Agena's velocity and cutting the apogee of its orbit from 476 to 245 miles. A final maneuver placed the astronauts in a 240-mile circular orbit slightly inside the path of Agena 8, now 1,245 miles ahead...