Word: geminis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week NASA made it official-the Mercury program was finished and the space agency would now start concentrating on Project Gemini, the two-man, rendezvous-in-space program. As it did, the Soviet Union took another step of its own toward the moon (see THE WORLD). But the whiz kid from RCA was out of the race. Buried in the middle of a three-page NASA release was the news that "The Office of Manned Space Flight will be realigned to permit Mr. Brainerd Holmes, Director, to return to industry...
Beyond that. Project Gemini is already charted-a voyage that will send a two-man capsule to rendezvous with an orbiting resupply spacecraft by the end of 1964. Project Apollo is also in the works -a dream's end program to shoot a full crew of astronauts to the moon...
...week's end McNamara flew to the Boeing plant in Seattle. Greeted by Boeing President William M. Allen, he looked over the Air Force's space-glider project, Dyna-Soar, amid rumors that it was having technical difficulties and might be scrapped. McNamara also inspected the Gemini two-man space project of NASA in Houston, which seems to overlap Dyna-Soar in some respects. But he apparently had had enough fusses for one week. Pentagon officials said that McNamara will make no final decision on whether to kill Dyna-Soar or merge the two projects-either of which...
...Such a program is Discovery '63, a children's show on ABC, 4:30-4:55 p.m. weekdays, which ranges skillfully and educationally through a host of subjects and themes. In the coming week, for example, Discovery '63 covers unusual zoo animals, the U.S.'s Gemini space project, micro-projection of tiny objects and organisms, a trip through Washington, B.C., with Interior Secretary Udall, and a visit to the Smithsonian Institution...
...Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed not a curl, Hairdresser Mr. Kenneth was backstage with teasing comb at the ready...