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...away, telemetering equipment turned suddenly unreliable, fire near the launch pad, thunderstorms aloft−all seemed problems of the past. Now everything was going well; Gemini's orbit was incredibly exact. "Everything is fine," reported Command Pilot Gordon Cooper. "You are go! You are go!" exulted Astronaut Jim McDivitt, capsule communicator in the Mission Control Center near Houston...
While Gemini 4 orbited the earth, Astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White did not brush after every meal, but in stead chewed a new gum called Trident, which helps clean teeth by using enzymes to break down dirt and bacteria...
...session was set up on short notice: only three days before, at a State Department reception for Astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White, President Johnson had suddenly ordered the space twins to fly to the Paris Air Show-and sent Hubert along with them. When De Gaulle, out touring the French countryside, got the word, he invited Humphrey to drop by. The meeting, with U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and an interpreter present, lasted 80 minutes...
...want you to join our delegation in Paris and go out among the friendly peoples of the earth to share with them the excitement and thrills you experienced," said Johnson. Still smiling, McDivitt and White-accompanied by their wives-hurried off to the Paris Air Show, where the Russians had captured all eyes with Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and a huge 250-ton transport. Vice President Hubert Humphrey escorted the U.S. space twins and was himself scheduled to meet with Charles de Gaulle. No sooner had the group landed at Le Bourget airfield, where Charles Lindbergh touched...
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN James McDivitt, DOCTOR OF ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCE. By simple personal worth without benefit of heraldry, special privilege or urgent self-seeking, he rose quietly from among us to his present eminence...