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...While Gemini 4 was in one of its last revolutions around the earth, Command Pilot Jim McDivitt allowed as how he and Co-Pilot Ed White were a little tired but feeling fit. From Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, Gemini 3 Astronaut John Young joked that the tough part would come back on earth...
...Gemini 4 had its failures-a missed rendezvous, a stuck hatch, a computer that malfunctioned - but they were minor compared with its stunning success. Space officials made no effort whatever to conceal their optimism. Minutes after the Gemini 4 capsule splashed down, they flashed this con fident message on TV screens at the Space Center: "End of flight plan-tune in next time...
...program. Where officials were recently talking about 1970 as the likely year for the first U.S. lunar landing attempt, last week they were talking about 1969, and Apollo Manager Joseph Shea said the first at tempt might even come in mid-1968. "That's the true implication of Gemini 4 for Apollo," said Shea. Original plans called for a landing on the 15th Apollo shot, he explained, but "now we may be able to make an attempt on the fourth, fifth or sixth launch...
Whatever the exact date, this much is certain: Gemini 4 has fixed man's eyes irrevocably on the moon-and it has convinced U.S. officials that before too long man's eyes will be looking back down from the moon...
...used to stride along roads (long), sail oceans (uncharted), or climb mountains (lofty), they are now in orbit (dizzying). Said Emmett Dedmon, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, at George Williams College: "May the explosions of your generation cut as clean as those which freed the capsule of Gemini IV from the booster engines." Whatever his fellow editors might think of that particular metaphor, Dedmon stated the dominant theme of the 1965 commmencement speeches: the "explosions" of the younger generation...