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...first, Glenn accepted this with a shrug, but as time went by and more and more of his astronaut brothers were chosen for the Gemini and Apollo programs that followed Mercury, he grew increasingly frustrated. Finally, in 1964, he resigned from NASA. "It was only years later that I read in a book that Kennedy had passed the word that he didn't want me to go back up," Glenn says. "I don't know if he was afraid of the political fallout if I got killed, but by the time I found out, he had been dead for some...
...unfounded. Glenn is hardly the only older pilot the agency had on hand. Story Musgrave, a six-time shuttle astronaut, retired from the astronaut corps in 1996 at age 61 when NASA told him he was too old to fly. John Young, 67, who flew twice each in the Gemini, Apollo and shuttle programs, is still listed on NASA's active-flight manifest. It could be argued that both would have been equally qualified for a seat aboard the shuttle. However, as Goldin points out, "there is only one John Glenn...
...GEMINI: Gemini women should be especially aware of their coupling capabilities this month, as the stars are aligned with the crowns of your fine heads...
...April afternoon in 1970--carried the threat of death in its oxygen tanks. They exploded on April 13, imperiling both the mission and the lives of astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert. Commander Lovell, history's greatest traveler with almost 7 million miles on his Gemini and Apollo odometers, had dreamed of walking on the moon. Now he and his companions would be lucky to walk again on the earth. In an anxious four days, they would learn how to pilot a wounded, runaway craft; they would assemble an air purifier using homely artifacts found in any space...
Sedef Buyukataman, a recruiter for Gemini Consulting, a Boston firm which traditionally recruits on the Harvard campus, said yesterday that many corporations feel an outside perspective is often necessary to see what's wrong within the company...