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Planning for Trouble. Well past mid-point in its journey, the spaceship was sailing along smoothly. No problems, only precedents. On April 29, when Mariner reached a straight-line distance from earth of 66 million miles, it surpassed the record for long-distance space communications set two years ago by the unsuccessful Russian Mars 1 probe...
...flight promised "to knock down an awful lot of straw men. We had been told that we would have an unconscious astronaut after four days of weightlessness. Well, they're not. We were told that the astronaut would experience vertigo, disorientation when he stepped out of that spaceship. We hit that one over the head...
...stood on top of his spaceship's white titanium hull. He touched it with his bulky thermal gloves. He burned around like Buck Rogers propelling himself with his hand-held jet. He floated lazily on his back. He joked and laughed. He gazed down at the earth 103 miles below, spotted the Houston Galveston Bay area where he lives and tried to take a picture of it. Like a gas station attendant, he checked the spacecraft's thrusters, wiped its windshield. Ordered to get back into the capsule, he protested like a scolded kid. "I'm doing...
After the Project Gemini series will come Project Apollo, aimed at landing an American man on the moon in its first shot some time in 1970. But the man on the moon is only the beginning of the Apollo program. After that, it will send the spaceship many millions of miles on the way to the planets...
...anxious minutes after voice contact was lost with the Gemini capsule Molly Brown last week, the fate of the largest man-carrying spaceship ever launched by the U.S. worried a waiting nation. But the electronic blackout had been made familiar by earlier space shots. And despite the fact that the capsule dropped into the Atlantic about 60 miles short of its se lected landing spot, Molly's three-orbit cruise, like the moon flight of Ranger IX, was an all-but-perfect mission. By changing their course three times, Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young demonstrated that U.S. spacemen...