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...TIME'S June 11 article on the Gemin14 flight, I note that James McDivitt attended "tiny" Jackson Junior College. Next fall we will enroll about 2,250 students. We are no longer tiny. You say Major McDivitt was a "soso" student; actually, he had a 3.4 grade point average and graduated with honors. Perhaps you would be interested in the complete statement on his college application form: "Although engineering appeals to me very much, I would rather be an explorer and novelist. The excitement of exploring and the peace and quiet of writing seem like the perfect combination." Major...
While Gemini 4 was in one of its last revolutions around the earth, Command Pilot Jim McDivitt allowed as how he and Co-Pilot Ed White were a little tired but feeling fit. From Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center, Gemini 3 Astronaut John Young joked that the tough part would come back on earth...
Last week McDivitt and White learned what Young meant, as they orbit ed through a series of tumultuous receptions that ran the gamut of a hero's homecoming - from brass bands to bronze medals to a free trip to Paris. Both took it with weightless ease...
...Call Me 'Doctor.' " After a cordial reception in Houston early in the week, the pair zipped off to Chicago. No fewer than a million whooping people jammed curbstones and upper-floor windows and let fly with a blizzard of ticker tape that all but buried McDivitt and White as they rode in a parade down State Street and Michigan Avenue. That over, the astronauts flew to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where each was solemnly awarded a newly created honorary degree -a doctorate of astronautical science. Already both had been nominated by the President for promotion...
After separate trips to their home towns for more welcome-back festivities, McDivitt and White arrived in Washington. In a White House garden ceremony, the President pinned on both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exceptional Service Medal -the agency's second highest award (the highest, the Distinguished Service Medal, was given only to the first six astronauts...