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...space effort scheduled for this week, brought up new questions about the U.S. space capability. So, accompanying the cover story, we have a detailed report and six pages of color pictures to show the state of the space art in the U.S. on the eve of the two-man Gemini launching. There were other major stories (civil rights, politics, foreign affairs) that called for and are given major treatment. Beyond these must stories there is TIME news that answers a world of questions. Consider these...
...first orbit, command-pilot Virgil T. Grissom and pilot John W. Young employed rockets to decrease the speed of the Gemini 3 capsule, causing it to descend into an orbit closer to the earth. The next time around, the pilots engaged rockets to push the Gemini 3 from side to side across the plane of the orbit...
...necessary step in any program aimed at landing a man on the moon. But Russia and the United States have chosen to take these steps in a different order. The Russians have put a man in space, but their capsules have not exhibited the maneuverability achieved by the Gemini...
...hours lying on a Florida pad to relax the old muscles. But this pad was at Cape Kennedy, and Astronauts Gus Grissom, 38, and Lieut. Commander John W. Young, 34, could be pardoned for feeling a mite tense. They were on their backs, 100 ft. up, in a sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other foul-ups developed to scrub a real...
...told, there are now 28 spacemen. Of the original seven Mercury astronauts, only two besides Cooper remain as active participants: Virgil Grissom will command the first of the Gemini flights, and Walter Schirra Jr. will lead the stand-by crew. Donald ("Deke") Slayton, who resigned his Air Force commission in 1963 after doctors discovered a heart murmur, is now assistant director of the Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, in charge of crew operations. Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn made an abortive try at politics, later retired from the Marine Corps, is now a director of a soft-drink company. Alan...