Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schedule, the reliable Atlas booster roared up from Cape Kennedy and out over the Atlantic carrying an unmanned Agena rocket as its payload. Astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford watched the action on TV as they waited for their own scheduled liftoff, 1 hr. 41 min. later, in Gemini 6, the capsule in which they would make the first attempt at rendezvous and linkup in space. Then, six minutes later, the Agena target vehicle mysteriously disintegrated. The whole mission was scrubbed, and from Houston to the Cape, U.S. spacemen began to search their telemetered data for some sign of what...
Then, 143 miles high and 541.9 miles downrange over the Atlantic, the Agena suddenly went silent. At the Houston control center, flight directors hunted desperately for their missing spacecraft, still hoping that there might be something in orbit for a Gemini rendezvous. But after a futile radar hunt, a technician at the Carnavon tracking station in Australia announced the end by moaning...
...Director Robert Gilruth and his deputy George Low glumly surveyed the failure of a mission. It may be weeks before the experts can identify the "glitch," the space-age devil that caused the trouble. And if it turns out to be a major design failure in the Agena, the Gemini program is in deep trouble. Five of the next six Gemini missions involve rendezvous and docking exercises with an Agena target...
While most Americans have their eyes fixed on the scheduled flight of Gemini 6 this week, many businessmen are looking even further-to the moon itself and the profits that will be made from lunar exploration. Although the first American will not set foot on the moon until the end of the decade at best, U.S. firms are already preparing the tools and machines that the lunanauts will need when they get there, from a simple hammer to chip rock samples to a trackless train to carry them over the vast, hostile lunar plain...
With 14 cameras set up around the world, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., will photograph every 15 minutes of the comet's journey. NASA plans to launch sounding rockets with instruments to analyze the spectrum of the comet; the crew of Gemini 6 will attempt to take pictures of it on their mission, which is scheduled to start...