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The astronauts worked hard in space, performing beyond expectations. When equipment unexpectedly conked out, they demonstrated that man has the capacity to become a celestial mechanic. A sighting device went on the blink; Cooper discovered that the trouble was a short circuit, repaired it with a three-inch-long screwdriver...
The trickle of oxygen became a steady stream, joining in a chemical reaction with hydrogen to produce the electricity to run the craft's computer, radar, communications and environment-control systems. For reasons not yet fully understood, the pressure inside the oxygen tank increased as the volume of liquid...
First (see diagram below) he fired a short burst of backward burn from the thrusters, lowering Gemini's apogee by 13 miles. Almost 40 minutes later, he triggered a forward burn to raise the perigee ten miles. Next he yawed the spacecraft and fired the aft thrusters to move...
The world watched anxiously as Gemini 5 went into its last revolutions. It had been a troubled but triumphant flight. Thanks to it, U.S. astronauts surpassed Soviet cosmonauts on several scores: nine manned space flights to the Russians' eight, a total of 642 man-hours in space to the...
Against the growing probability that the mission would have to be aborted early, he ordered four Air Force planes to move into position in the Pacific for a possible emergency splashdown some 490 miles north and east of Hawaii. A Navy destroyer and oiler in the vicinity were alerted to...