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...sent a man into space since May 1963-when Astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper stayed in orbit for 34 hr. 20 min. Cooper's flight signaled the end of the Mercury program and the start of the Gemini series of earth orbits in a two-man capsule. Gemini fell two years behind schedule because of technical problems and congressional heel-dragging on appropriations. This year the spacemen hope to make up for lost time: a three-orbit trip is scheduled for April, a four-day attempt for this summer, and if all goes well, there will be a week-long...
...That seven-day trip, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced last week, will be manned by "Gordo" Cooper, 37, and Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., 34, a Navy pilot who learned his aeronautical engineering at Princeton. The Cooper-Conrad flight will be the most critical one of the Gemini program, since a round trip to the moon, as envisioned in the Project Apollo series, will also last about seven days, and NASA officials want to be able to study the effects of such a long period of weightlessness on humans. Plans also call for the men to release...
...Gemini program, which was designed to test the ability of astronauts to control a rendezvous of spaceships in orbit, had a difficult enough time even getting off the ground. But last week it passed an important milestone in the air. A Titan II rocket took off from Cape Kennedy and carried a 6,900-lb. Gemini capsule 99 miles high. No attempt was made to orbit; the capsule arched like a missile and plunged down at 16.600 m.p.h. toward a spot in the Atlantic 2,129 miles southeast of the Cape...
...humans were on board. In place of the two astronauts who will eventually ride in Gemini capsules were crew simulators: black boxes weighing 160 Ibs. each, stuffed with batteries, timing devices, tape recorders and electronic apparatus capable of keeping records, testing communications and giving orders. With imperturbable efficiency, they turned the capsule so that its blunt heat shield was forward. At the proper moment, they separated an adapter section and fired four retrorockets. As the capsule dived down through the atmosphere, the shield streamed fire at 2,000° F. At 10,600 ft., a small stabilizing parachute opened, then...
...Project Gemini is now about 18 months behind schedule. Next step, if no more trouble develops, will be a two-man, three-orbit flight some time in April...