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Goof on the Ground. In other technical areas, Gemini had at least one negative aspect. Instead of touching down last week within sight of the carrier Lake Champlain as planned, the astronauts fell short by 103 miles. Investigators at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston soon traced the trouble: human error on the ground, not in space. One of the controllers at Houston had fed incorrect information to the big computer system on the ground, which in turn relayed the wrong re-entry calculations to the shoe-box-sized computer aboard Gemini 5. Said Howard W. Tindall Jr., mission-planning...
Like any round-the-world travelers, Gemini 5 Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad took some pictures to show the folks back home. The first photos released last week made a spectacular space travelogue, exceptionally clear and well-defined. From more than 150 miles up, the astronauts were able to get detailed shots of the launch pads at Cape Kennedy, the sharp relief of mountains and deserts, and incredible sights of underwater coral reefs (see color pages). The more than 1,000 pictures that they took with four cameras* demonstrated anew the potential of space photography for scientific and military...
...Some of Gemini's pictures of East Africa and the Middle East gave geologists a broad overview of rift-valley systems produced by faulting in the earth's crust. Other pictures, each encompassing hundreds of square miles, will be useful to oceanographers studying ocean depths, underwater formations and ice floes. By taking selective color shots, Gemini did far better than the Tiros weather satellites, which photograph indiscriminately and only in black and white...
...Diet. On the day after splashdown, they were flown to Cape Kennedy to begin eleven days of even more intensive physical checkups and debriefings. The exams showed that Cooper and Conrad were not so fatigued as the men of the four-day Gemini 4. For one reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal...
...flight and the tests supported what Gemini's chief surgeon, Dr. Charles A. Berry, has insisted right along: the human body is extraordinarily adaptable. With care and preparation, man can adjust to the exigencies and demands of space. From their first examinations, doctors could find no reason to fear for the safety of the astronauts on next year's Gemini 7 mission, or on more adventurous flights later on. Said Dr. Berry: "We've qualified man to go to the moon...