Word: targets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until things dramatically improve, the U.S. capacity to carry the war to the enemy-and increase the size of U.S. manpower in Viet Nam-will be hobbled. Current target for blasting the pipeline clear: March...
...week's end, viewers saw a nearly identical telecast as Borman and Lovell-despite bouts of trouble with thrusters and fuel cells-splashed down only 7.6 miles from their planned impact point, winning a bet made with Schirra and Stafford that they would land closest to the target. There was one notable difference. After a 330-hour, 5.7 million-mile journey, the Gemini 7 astronauts were understandably anxious to leave their cramped quarters as soon as possible. Shortly after they opened their hatches, they were hoisted aboard a helicopter and flown to the deck of the Wasp. Though...
...aloft. At higher altitudes, where the strength of gravity has decreased, a lower velocity will maintain an orbit. In last week's rendezvous mission, Gemini 6 was inserted into a lower orbit than Gemini 7; thus it was moving at a higher speed and would eventually overtake its target...
...pulled the Dring ("chicken switch") that would have ejected him and Copilot Stafford from the Gemini capsule, the mission could probably not have been sent aloft on time. His superb piloting of the capsule, perfected in long hours of practice in the Houston docking simulator, and his nearly on-target splashdown near the carrier Wasp were reminiscent of his first space flight. In 1962 Schirra flew a near-perfect mission in the Mercury capsule Sigma 7, landing only four miles from the recovery carrier in the Pacific...
...remaining five flights of the Gemini program. Gemini 8, scheduled for early next year, will attempt to perform the original mission of Gemini 6: docking in space. If the necessary modifications of the backfiring Agena cannot be made in time, NASA will use a hastily contrived "Augmented Target Docking Adapter." One way or another, Gemini 8 will have a target vehicle...