Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brute-Force Buttonhook. The fuel problem arose during Gemini 10's tricky fourth-orbit rendezvous with Agena 10. To determine the final thrust required for the interception, Young and Collins used data from the on-board radar, inertial guidance and computer system. In some as yet unknown way, the system produced a figure nearly 7 ft. per sec. greater than the figure radioed up from ground control. When Collins' own slide-rule tabulation agreed with the spacecraft guidance system, Command Pilot Young chose to go with the double-checked on-board answer...
Spectacular Views. Engineers remain stumped over what pungent substance irritated the crew's eyes during Collins' first EVA (extra vehicular activity). One new suggestion is that urine somehow invaded the breathing lines, but the Gemini 10 spacemen quickly vetoed that theory, insisting that the eye-swelling fumes were in no way similar to urine. One guess now is that the special antifog mist wiped on both space-suit visors prior to the EVA reacted chemically with particles of lithium hydroxide (used to purify the astronauts' breathing system...
...nothing but blurry blue sky. Ironically, the best black-and-white movies show nothing more enlightening than the crew mugging in the spacecraft with a free-floating camera. Even so, NASA officials were quick to point out that the crew did shoot the first daylight pictures of a docked Gemini-Age-na-and one of the most spectacular views of the earth's curvature ever seen by nonastronauts (see color pages...
Even more ambitious flight plans are now being polished for Commander Charles Conrad (command pilot) and Lieut. Commander Richard Gordon (pilot), who are scheduled to launch in Gemini 11 shortly after Labor Day. To be attempted...
...tricky first orbit rendezvous over the Pacific with an Agena launched before the Gemini, simulating the critical Apollo-Lunar Excursion Module moon rendezvous...