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...astronauts to the various manufacturers who have contributed to the space capsule. With 30-to 40-man staffs in Viet Nam, CBS and NBC spent over $500,000 apiece on war coverage last year. With the help of the Early Bird communications satellite, TV managed live coverage of the Gemini 6 splashdown...
Causing special gasps of delight on opening night was Richard Lippold's 90-ft.-long sculpture. Titled Gemini II, it swoops through the air like hammocks of magical cobwebs, belying by its tension the fact that the wire strands support 2,300 slender aluminum bars...
...attempt to familiarize Aldrin with weightlessness, which until now has been simulated for astronaut trainees in an Air Force KC-135 for only 30 seconds at a time, NASA has been giving him workouts in a Baltimore swimming pool that contains a full-size mock-up of Gemini's equipment section. Dressed in a special pressure suit rigged with weights and floats that enable him to remain buoyant at a specific level underwater, Aldrin has spent hours practicing his EVA assignments under conditions that approximate but do not exactly duplicate weightlessness. Astronaut Cernan has also used the pool...
Aldrin's underwater training has been largely pointed toward the most ambitious EVA activity scheduled for Gemini 12: use of the Buck Rogers-like, jet-propelled Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (TIME, Nov. 26). Initial plans called for Aldrin to emerge from his hatch and work his way back to the AMU, stowed in Gemini's equipment section. After snapping the AMU's chairlike arms into place, he was to strap himself in and then jet about in space, connected to Gemini by a 125-ft. safety tether...
...spacewalk difficulties encountered by Gordon-and by Cernan before him-have had a restraining effect on NASA officials. Last week, anxious that nothing go wrong on the final Gemini flight, they canceled the entire AMU experiment and began planning a simpler and less arduous space walk that will give Aldrin a better chance of making out with...