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...space. Some experts believe that outside the spacecraft Scott would have quickly spotted the firing thruster and warned Armstrong in time for him to shut off its propellant. Others are convinced that the rolling Gemini would have whirled Scott around in space at the end of his 75-ft. tether, eventually slamming him against the spacecraft and probably causing fatal injuries...
Aware of the risks, NASA has insisted that Astronaut Bassett remain attached to Gemini 9 by a 200-ft. nylon tether. If both Bassett and AMU perform satisfactorily, however, the astronaut who leaves Gemini 12 in an AMU may well be allowed to sever his last connection with the mother ship and strike out into empty space...
...Tether. So was the rest of the world. Seventy-eight days earlier, Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland "Plain Dealer, had quietly set out alone in the 131-ft. Tinker belle from Falmouth, Mass., for the other Falmouth 3,200 miles away, thinking no one would pay any attention. No one did until a fortnight ago, when it suddenly seemed possible that he was actually going to make it all the way to England. Then came the world headlines. Falmouth trawler captains gave up fishing to haul boatloads of journalists in search of the red-sailed dinghy; some reporters...
Troublesome Tether. In a press conference at the Space Center the next day, McDivitt and White matter-of-factly gave 75 newsmen a rundown of their flight. Seated at a table covered with gold-colored cloth, McDivitt said he had trouble trying to rendezvous with the booster that had hurled the capsule into orbit. It was, he said, tumbling too much. Mission Director Kraft, noting that when McDivitt thought the booster was 400 ft. off, it was really 2,000 ft. away, said: "It's pretty hard to tell distances up there by eyeballing it." Next August...
White confessed that during his "extravehicular activity," his 25-ft. tether gave him considerable trouble, kept tugging him toward the very spot he had been warned to avoid-the spacecraft's adapter section. There, two-foot-long plumes of burning fuel shot out from the thruster rockets fired by McDivitt to stabilize the capsule, and White at times drifted as near as five or six feet above them...