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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...90th birthday was the best of all. Two weeks earlier, Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene had awakened in her Washington apartment and suddenly seen the canopy on her bed, her chest of drawers, the pictures on the wall and the sunlight through the window-for the first time in ten years. The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant and former wife of the late Russian Prince Michael Can tacuzene, the princess had somewhat mysteriously regained, at least partially, the sight she lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed...
...cumbersome space suit and connected to Gemini by a white, 25-ft. oxygen and communications cord, Cernan methodically began his work. He attached a rearview mirror to the docking bar near Gemini's nose so that Stafford could watch and photograph him through a forward-facing window while he maneuvered near the aft end of the craft. Just behind the hatch, he clamped a 16-mm. movie camera into place...
...friction of the spacecraft's passage. They were the first re-entry photographs ever taken. As Gemini plunged into denser atmosphere, the colors increased in brilliance: a sharply defined blue shock wave expanded, and hot, golden fragments ripped loose from the glowing heat shield to shoot past the window in a dazzling stream...
...still pictures shot through a Gemini window with a hand-held Hasselblad 70-mm. camera showed the rendezvous with the target satellite that Stafford had dubbed the "angry alligator." There was such clarity of detail that NASA experts used the pictures to confirm the reason why the ATDA had failed to shed its heat shroud. The ATDA ground crew had not connected four lanyards that would have assured proper jettisoning. Certain that the lanyards were merely leads for ground-test instruments, the crew had taped them uselessly to the side of the shroud...
...case, Holworthy won. Which wound to salt, they promptly createed a dummy, painted "Stoughton" on it, and hung it out a Holworthy upper window with a gigantic lightbulb rigged to illuminate...