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...preparation for the chief goal of their space flight-a complex docking maneuver with an Agena rocket-the astronauts left Houston at 7:35 a.m., with See at the controls. Right on their tail in another T-38 was the Gemini 9 backup crew, Air Force Lieut. Colonel Thomas Stafford, who copiloted December's Gemini 6 flight, and Navy Lieut. Commander Eugene Cernan. Though an enormous cloud canopy hovered over much of the Midwest, it was strictly a run-of-the-mill flight...
...Building 101-where the Gemini 9 capsule was being readied for shipment to Cape Kennedy later in the week. The plane bounced, hit the building again, then plummeted into a parking lot, bursting into flames. Bassett was decapitated. See was hurled through the shattered fuselage and killed instantly. Stafford and Cernan, unaware of the crash, touched down safely on a runway nearby...
...life has been lost during the 1,355 hours of U.S. space flights. The first fatality was Astronaut Theodore Freeman, who died in October 1964 when a flock of geese disabled another T-38. As for Gemini 9, the space center plans to send it off on schedule, with Stafford and Cernan at the controls...
...Mood to Study. The 4-ft. by 31-ft. cubicles-"large enough for one student but too small for two," wryly explains Dean of Instruction Stafford North-are housed in a $1,000,000 three-story brick building that also contains a 40,000-book library and a core of faculty offices. This clustering of books, teachers, tapes and solitude is designed, says North, to put students "in a mood to study." So far, two-thirds of the freshman and one-third of the sophomore lectures are on tape...
While the four astronauts soared toward their meeting in space, their wives made their own rendezvous at the Stafford home in El Lago, near the space center. There they sipped coffee, listened to announcements, and followed air-to-ground conversations piped into a loudspeaker from Mission Control. "Whee! We made it!" shouted Susan Borman as she congratulated Faye Stafford, who had nearly jumped off her living-room couch at lift-off and was still jumping up and down an hour later. Marilyn Lovell, expecting her fourth child soon, was also in high spirits. "I'm just stopping...