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...Mock-The loading of fuel and oxidizer into the Titan II's tanks...
...event on television this week, if all goes as planned, is the Gemini-Titan 4 space shot scheduled to blast off from Cape Kennedy Thursday at 9 a.m °All three networks plan extensive coverage of the launch (which NBC will broadcast in live color), frequent reports from the space craft during the 63-orbit, four-day flight, a generous assortment of specials and summaries and even an attempt to have a pool reporter with audio gear aboard one of the recovery helicopters. Elsewhere...
...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...