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...take for granted in the eighth year of the space age. Weather was ideal; the complex countdown proceeded without a hitch. Precisely on schedule, the reliable Atlas booster roared up from Cape Kennedy and out over the Atlantic carrying an unmanned Agena rocket as its payload. Astronauts Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford watched the action on TV as they waited for their own scheduled liftoff, 1 hr. 41 min. later, in Gemini 6, the capsule in which they would make the first attempt at rendezvous and linkup in space. Then, six minutes later, the Agena target vehicle mysteriously disintegrated...
...These will be missions flown in three-man Apollo spacecraft. Meanwhile, crews for the remaining two-man Gemini nights will be drawn from the 28 pilots still active. Scheduled for the next three shots: Major Gordon Cooper and Lieut. Commander Charles Conrad in Gemini 5 next month, Commander Walter Schirra and Major Thomas Stafford in Gemini 6 next December or January; Major Frank Borman and Lieut. Commander James Lovell in Gemini 7 early next year...
...such converted German scientists as Wernher von Braun and Kurt Debus. Of those paleolithic days, few relics remain at the Cape except a blue-painted, Maltese-crossed V-l buzz bomb, and Debus, now NASA's Kennedy Space Center director. In 1961, Mercury Astronauts Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra and Cooper began blasting off. After his 22 orbits, Cooper splashed down in the Pacific nearly two years ago, on May 16, 1963-and even the Mercury program is now ancient history. The only landmarks left for the busloads of tourists who roll through the spaceport is a memorial Mercury...
...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...
...During the Schirra flight, the cooling system in the capsule was "partially blocked by solidified lubricant," making it difficult for the astronaut to adjust his pressure suit to proper temperature...