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...Gemini astronauts. They made us proud to be Americans...
Stream of Visitors. At midweek, Defense-Secretary Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Presidential Assistant Walt Rostow arrived to discuss world issues-from Viet Nam to NATO. The stream of visitors continued daily. The last of the Gemini astronauts, James Lovell Jr. and Edwin Aldrin, came to be decorated by the President, along with a galaxy of NASA and space industry officials. On Thanksgiving, Pat and Luci Nugent, Lynda Bird, Lyndon's Aunt Jessie Hatcher and his cousin, Oriole Bailey, along with Lady Bird's nephew, T. J. Taylor III and his family, and Mrs. Jessie...
Better Photography. Though Aldrin had fewer troubles than earlier space walkers, Gemini 12 itself had more than its share of minor problems. One by one, during the flight, four of Gemini's 16 thrusters failed. Two of the craft's six fuel-cell stacks went dead, and excess water produced by the others threatened to flood the entire power system. To make room for the excess fuel-cell water, which is impure, the astronauts were asked to consume more than their planned ration of drinking water and ran short on the last day of the flight...
Despite these glitches, the astronauts doggedly followed their flight plan, even repeated Gemini 11 's feat of flying in tethered formation with the undocked Agena. "If you want to have some fun," Aldrin radioed to ground controllers, "try doing this with two attitude thrusters out." The astronauts also dispelled a growing suspicion that good astronauts make bad photographers. Unlike many previous Mercury and Gemini photographers, who underexposed, fogged and even lost some of their film, Lovell and Aldrin brought back roll after roll of beautifully exposed movie and still pictures, including shots of the total solar eclipse taken...
...Their Gemini missions successfully accomplished, U.S. astronauts can now turn their full attention to Apollo, which will make its first three-man orbital flight during the first quarter of 1967 and may carry U.S. astronauts to the moon as early...