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Born. To Lieut. Colonel James Mc-Divitt, 37, command pilot of Gemini 4's June 1965 mission, and Patricia Mc-Divitt, 37: their fourth child, a girl, the first baby conceived by a U.S. astronaut after space flight; in Houston...
...Cernan groped his way back to the open hatch, Gemini circled into daylight again. Sunlight hitting the visor warmed it, but failed to evaporate the moisture. "I can see through my nose, but I can't see through my eyeballs," cracked Cernan. Then, two hours and nine minutes after he had stepped out into space, he climbed back into his hatch, panting with exhaustion...
Incandescent Re-Entry. Like almost everything else on Gemini 9's glitch-filled flight, space photography fell short of expectations. Just as he was about to close the hatch, Astronaut Cernan lost the film magazine and a lens from the movie camera that had recorded his space walk. As lens and film floated out of the spacecraft and into orbits of their own, he grabbed for them but missed. Understandably, Cernan did not follow. "I didn't feel like any more extravehicular activity," he explained. In addition, many of the 17 magazines of color film shot from inside...
...return into the earth's atmosphere, the astronauts took some vivid color movies of a sheath of gases glowing with purple, blue and green incandescence as it was heated by the friction of the spacecraft's passage. They were the first re-entry photographs ever taken. As Gemini plunged into denser atmosphere, the colors increased in brilliance: a sharply defined blue shock wave expanded, and hot, golden fragments ripped loose from the glowing heat shield to shoot past the window in a dazzling stream...
...still pictures shot through a Gemini window with a hand-held Hasselblad 70-mm. camera showed the rendezvous with the target satellite that Stafford had dubbed the "angry alligator." There was such clarity of detail that NASA experts used the pictures to confirm the reason why the ATDA had failed to shed its heat shroud. The ATDA ground crew had not connected four lanyards that would have assured proper jettisoning. Certain that the lanyards were merely leads for ground-test instruments, the crew had taped them uselessly to the side of the shroud...