Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face with a fishwifely propaganda harangue. "It seems, sir, both you and we are expecting some big news from up there tonight," began Reston vaguely enough. "What do you call 'Up there?' " snapped Kosygin. "Do you mean from God?" Reston only meant space shots-the U.S. Gemini 7 and the Soviet Luna 8-but the mood had been struck. Despite Reston's attempts at ingratiation ("I agree . . ." "I was certainly not suggesting . . ."), Kosygin laid out a rehash of anti-American propaganda that grew harsher by the minute...
Schirra, theoretically just nine days away from the launching of his own Gemini 6, was by far the most relaxed of the group. He was the only one without a certain wild-eyed look that seems to reflect the two-sided nature of the astronaut's world--half survival training in the desert and half telling college editors at cocktail parties what it's like to have been in space...
Schirra would have to pilot Gemini 6 into a rendezvous with Borman and Lovell. How hard would it be, he was asked? If Ranger 7 could find a tiny area on the moon accurately, would it be harder to rendezvous with a much-nearer satellite...
...same. "We know where the moon is--perfectly. But no matter how hard you try, you can't compute a rocket's path as perfectly. We just don't know where it is as well." Still he was confident. "If we can just get into the same plane with Gemini 7, we'll be OK. We have all the correcting devices we need to home in--there won't be a near-miss on this flight...
...long ride from the Kennedy Space Center--all NASA's--back to Cape Kennedy--a military complex with some land used by NASA. Bleachers were set up almost 2 miles from pad 19, where Gemini 7 was to take off (because the fuels used in the Titan rocket are poisonous, everyone, even the photographers, are kept at least 7000 feet from...