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...anything." Then, if the problem does not correct itself, there is almost always time enough to take remedial action−as there was last week when the gremlins of Gemini 5 battled against the determined ingenuity, intelligence and hardheaded courage of crack U.S. spacemen...
...data examined and reexamined, the measurements studied and restudied, the monumental achievement of Mariner IV will expand steadily. Its success already adds up to an eloquent tribute to one of the most skillful and resourceful teams ever gathered together in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. William Pickering's spacemen of JPL have more than earned their rank in the vanguard of U.S. space exploration. Among their leaders...
...qualified to fly jets, he will undergo a 55-week training course that will eventually certify him as a jet pilot. He volunteered last year after his wife, at the breakfast table, read aloud a newspaper story about NASA's new interest in science-trained spacemen...
Moreover, the spacemen themselves were second generation. Project Mercury's pioneers were national legends almost before they got off the ground. Yet who, before last week, knew very much about Jim McDivitt and Ed White...
Dress Rehearsals. Gemini officers picked McDivitt and White as the spacemen for last week's flight nearly a year ago. After that, each man spent scores of hours in a simulated capsule at Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center They practiced the chilling procedures for aborting a flight in case of a mishap in a centrifuge at Johnsville, Pa. Together, they bobbed inside a Gemini capsule shell on the Gulf of Mexico off Galveston, rehearsing the act of opening the hatch, jumping out and inflating a life raft to await rescuers...