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...this analogical basis, the flight director for this week's stories on Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr. and Gemini 5 is Senior Editor Richard Seamon, who edits a number of sections including SCIENCE, and for whom this was the sixth cover story on space flight. Working under Seamon's guidance, the key two-man team handling the vehicle was made up of Houston Bureau Chief Ben Gate and Science Writer John Wilford, two young men who, by age, condition of reflexes and general alertness, might well be taken for astronauts...
...saga of Gemini 5 was widely reported for the ear on radio and the eye on television, and in the daily headlines. The aim of TIME'S mission is to go to a substantially greater depth than the sounds and sights and to present a coherent, meaningful story of the flight−its drama, its trials and its significance−in terms that reach not only the ear and eye but also the mind...
That after-image haunted all Americans, in a week that brought successes for their nation almost everywhere save in the unillumined corners of its own big cities. The U.S. could look proudly to the skies, where the Gemini 5 capsule whirled in orbit; to far-off Viet Nam, where raw young marines scored the war's most notable victory against a well-entrenched, battle-seasoned Viet Cong force; to their own boundless farm lands, where record crops were ripening...
...scheduled to be the longest space flight on record. It almost became one of the shortest. And the threat to the ambitious mission became doubly dramatic as the fortunes of Gemini 5 oscillated wildly last week between disaster and promise, perfection and near-fatal flaw...
...mare's nest of trouble that had postponed the flight for two days. Fuel cells running low on fuel, liquid hydrogen boiling uselessly away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...