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OAMS-Orbit Attitude Maneuvering System, the 16 rocket engines that control the movements of the Gemini...
Second Generation. Still, Gemini's planners would have scrubbed White's EVA (for Extra-Vehicular Activity) expedition in a second if they had thought it might detract from the flight's basic missions...
...profits. Dividends (paid every year except one since the company was incorporated in 1885) were increased twice during 1964. We are in the midst of a stepped-up capital spending program. Swift research, credited with many industry firsts, played a vital role in developing well-rounded meals for the Gemini astronauts in their four-day orbital mission To get 16 meals down to a total weight of less than five pounds, Swift scientists had to freeze, dehydrate, press and seal the food until it was just a wisp of its former self. Just how far out do you have...
...into the capsule, he protested like a scolded kid. "I'm doing great," he said. "It's fun. I'm not coming in." When, after 20 minutes of space gymnastics, U.S. Astronaut Edward Higgins White II, 34, finally did agree to squeeze himself back into his Gemini 4 ship, he still had not had enough of space walking. Said he to Command Pilot James Alton McDivitt: "It's the saddest day of my life...
White's exhilarating space stroll provided the moments of highest drama during Gemini 4's scheduled 62-orbit, 98-hour, 1,700,000-mile flight. White spent twice the time outside the spacecraft that Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov did last March 18, and he had much more maneuverability; all Leonov did was somersault around at the end of a tether, getting dizzy, while White moved around pretty much at will...