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That ominous message from the two-man spaceship Gemini 8 alarmed a nation grown accustomed to uninterrupted space success. Off Formosa, aboard the tracking ship Coastal Sentry tense NASA technicians followed the approaching capsule by radar and urgently queried Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott for additional information. In the Mission Control Center near Houston, flight controllers huddled over their consoles and studied telemetered data in a desperate effort to track down the trouble. Millions of Americans listened in startled silence as NASA's Paul Haney, his usually calm voice urgent and shaken, announced over television and radio that...
What made the pews even more difficult to believe was that the day had begun with almost letter-perfect precision. And now, after the flawless twin launch of the Agena target vehicle and the Gemini, after making space rendezvous seem almost routine, and after the first successful docking of two spaceships, something had gone wrong...
...GEMINI 8 MISSION. Splashdown for the three-day Gemini 8 flight is scheduled for Friday, March 18, if all goes well, followed by color films of the space walk...
...launched its manned space program in 1959, though not a single life has been lost during the 1,355 hours of U.S. space flights. The first fatality was Astronaut Theodore Freeman, who died in October 1964 when a flock of geese disabled another T-38. As for Gemini 9, the space center plans to send it off on schedule, with Stafford and Cernan at the controls...
Died. Elliot M. See Jr., 38, civilian astronaut slated to command next May's Gemini 9 mission; with his capsule copilot, Air Force Major Charles A. Bassett II, 34, in the crash of their T-38 jet trainer at St. Louis' Lambert Field (see THE NATION...