Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capsule into orbit. It was, he said, tumbling too much. Mission Director Kraft, noting that when McDivitt thought the booster was 400 ft. off, it was really 2,000 ft. away, said: "It's pretty hard to tell distances up there by eyeballing it." Next August's Gemini 5 flight, how ever, will have sophisticated radar for rendezvous exercises...
...been saving some little something for you," said the President at that time. Now, standing in front of Houston's Mission Control Center, he told Air Force Majors McDivitt and White that he was nominating them for promotions to lieutenant colonel. He also said he was nominating Gemini 3 Command Pilot Gus Grissom, who helped guide Gemini 4 from the ground, and Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, who will fly Gemini 5, for the same jump in rank. This "little to ken," he told the astronauts, is "some thing you can eat as well as wear...
...Gemini 4 had its failures-a missed rendezvous, a stuck hatch, a computer that malfunctioned - but they were minor compared with its stunning success. Space officials made no effort whatever to conceal their optimism. Minutes after the Gemini 4 capsule splashed down, they flashed this con fident message on TV screens at the Space Center: "End of flight plan-tune in next time...
...program. Where officials were recently talking about 1970 as the likely year for the first U.S. lunar landing attempt, last week they were talking about 1969, and Apollo Manager Joseph Shea said the first at tempt might even come in mid-1968. "That's the true implication of Gemini 4 for Apollo," said Shea. Original plans called for a landing on the 15th Apollo shot, he explained, but "now we may be able to make an attempt on the fourth, fifth or sixth launch...
Whatever the exact date, this much is certain: Gemini 4 has fixed man's eyes irrevocably on the moon-and it has convinced U.S. officials that before too long man's eyes will be looking back down from the moon...