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...Come in Here!" Grissom burst in urgently: "Gemini 4, get back in!" McDivitt replied: "O.K. We're trying to come back in now." Grissom, more calmly now: "Roger, we've been trying to talk to you for a while here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

McDivitt swung Gemini 4 around so that it was flying blunt end forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...Gemini 4 was over the coast of Africa, well into its second orbit-the orbit in which Ed White was sup posed to get out and walk around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...kept chattering over VOX, a voice-activated system that cut off messages from controllers on earth whenever McDivitt and White were conversing. Again and again Grissom tried to break through: "Gemini 4, Houston. Gemini 4, Houston." The space twins kept talking to each other. Finally, McDivitt acknowledged the calls from earth: "Got any messages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

Tired, Safe & Elated. Grissom chimed in again: "Gemini 4, Houston." White: "I'm fixing to come in the house." McDivitt: "Any message for us, Houston?" Grissom: "Yeah! Get back in!" McDivitt: "He's standing in the seat now and his legs are down below the instrument panel." Grissom: "O.K. Get him back in now." McDivitt: "He's coming in. He's having some trouble getting back in the space cabin, looks like." Grissom: "You got your cabin lights up bright in case you hit darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Closing the Gap | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

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