Word: titan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mock-The loading of fuel and oxidizer into the Titan II's tanks...
Life aboard Gemini 4 settled into a routine that seemed almost mundane after Ed White's excursion into raw space. Yet even as the mission con tinued to circle the earth, there was new Project Gemini activity. Work had begun at Cape Kennedy to mount and prepare another Titan II missile, topped by another spacecraft: Gemini 5, which will carry Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad on a seven-day space expedition in late August...
...GEMINI-TITAN 4 (ABC, CBS, NBC. beginning about 9 a.m.). Re-entry and recovery...
...Gemini capsule failed, however, in its attempt to rendezvous with the burned-out second stage of the huge Titan II rocket which propelled it into orbit. The rendezvous was called off after McDivitt and White burned half their fuel in fruitless pursuit of the tumbling booster...
Menzel said he was not surprised at the failure of the attempted rendezvous with the Titan, booster. "That was always a doubtful Project from the very start. it's extremely difficult to get close enough to be able to link up in this...