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...Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
Dropping Pressure. At 56 minutes after launch, Cooper began the mission's first important maneuver. By firing his aft thrusters at just the right moment for just the right length of time, he gave his craft a "kick in the apogee" and moved it into an even more precise orbit. Curving between 107 and 217 miles above the earth, Gemini was now ready for its next test: release of the 76-Ib. Radar Evaluation Pod (REP). Fitted with bright, flashing lights and radar transponders, the REP would be an orbiting target for a carefully planned attempt to check...
...ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Charles Boyer, Robert Coote and Gladys Cooper star in an episode about teaching the true meaning of giving to a tightwad millionaire, played by John McGiver. Repeat...
...TALL AMERICAN (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A Project-20 portrait of Gary Cooper, including film clips from old movies and home movies. Repeat...
Died. Nancy Carroll, 58, baby-faced Hollywood redhead of the 1920s and '30s, who enhanced a string of early talkies (Shopworn Angel) opposite Gary Cooper and Lionel Barrymore, after a long period of obscurity reappeared in 1963 to star on the straw-hat circuit; in Manhattan...