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... but revealing nothing of the difficulty that had caused emergency landing March 16 of GEMINI VIII were released at MSC press conference. There was no indication of panic aboard the spacecraft ... , had it been on a highway, would have meant disaster.” Press commented on the GEMINI VIII mission.. Washington Evening Star: “In addition to its docking achievement, the mission was a success ...

... -100)'' House Committee on Science and Astronautics" Subcommittee on NASA Oversight began hearings on Project Ranger . Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Joseph E. Karth (D.-Minn.) remarked that "the action that precipitated these ... Board of Inquiry (Kelley Board) prior to RANGER VI and the Hilburn Board following RANGER VI . Hilburn report outlined: (1) design changes effected after analyses of RANGER VI flight Bata; (2) changes agreed ...

... "we" and "we." '''Brinkley:''' Can you describe a little bit your training for the Gemini VIII mission? How was that different from your other training? '''Armstrong:''' Well, I'd already been ... to something else, and that endured throughout the entire Gemini program. '''Brinkley:''' With the Gemini VIII mission, how concerned were you with the success of the docking maneuvers, considering it this ... a couple. If I may ask you to reflect again on Gemini VIII, in history we find that Gemini VIII tends to be overshadowed by later things, the Gemini program as a ...

... the problems he was having on Gemini IX. So tell us how—well, before, Gemini VIII was going to be the next EVA, but because of the problems they had onboard ... , would be adequate. And so we had built the backpack system that was on Gemini VIII just to hold a lot more gas, with the intent that we were going to ... we flew, but we didn't get to try that one. That was on Gemini VIII, that had the thruster problem. We might have run into exactly the same problem Gene ...

... . Then you want to know about the next one on the Gemini VIII mission, I think. '''Butler:''' Yes, Gemini VIII would be the next. Were you involved, though, actually even before that ... . But I remember that interview, and I remember telling him that going into the Gemini VIII mission, the Agena had to be the most scrutinized and tested vehicle that ever flew ... , they actually ended up rendezvousing with two of the Agenas, theirs and the one from VIII. '''Brooks:''' Yes. That was always an objective of the project, was to dock with one ...

... of failures using—some were launched with Thor, with Thor-Able rocket. These all preceded Ranger. There were a dozen failures, ten or eleven failures. Was it that high? Maybe not ... , but I'm not sure. There may have been another. How many Rangers were there? '''Dinkel:''' I've got Ranger 9, 7, 8, and 9. '''Cortright:''' There were nine. Seven, eight, and ... we agreed to have parallel programs, and Mariner started early on. That was similar to Ranger in many of its concepts, and the first one that worked. The first interplanetary mission ...

... -shift all remaining missions so we could move teams over to Apollo. So for Gemini VIII, we were two-shifting, myself and Hodge. Hodge was launching and I replaced him after ... steep that every time we flew a mission, we learned something. Sometimes, like on Gemini VIII, we were just lucky. And luck’s got no business in spaceflight. So we had to eliminate the luck component. We now looked differently, and the Gemini VIII was good from a standpoint of downstream missions, because we had so many missions we ...

... down. as the probable cause of the difficulty which cut short the flight of GEMINI VIII .” MSC Director Dr. Robert R. Gilruth said data ruled out any possibility of pilot error ... automatic camera mounted on Armstrong’s window in the GEMINI VIII were made public by NASA. Films showed maneuvers of GEMINI VIII in docking with Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV and gyrations ... officials to attempt to reconstruct events leading to their loss of control of the GEMINI VIII spacecraft March 16. Scott told a crowd at the airstrip that “the lift off, launching ...

... .jpg 100px - 1968 '''Vol. VII Year End Report''' Image:1968-YearBR.jpg 100px - 1969 '''Vol. VIII No.1''' Image:1969-01BR.jpg 100px - Needed: Direct Involvement - NASA's 10th By Don ... Harold R. Williams - Avscom: For An Airborne Army - Aerospace Reports - Future Ship Shape - 1969 '''Vol. VIII No.2''' Image:1969-02BR.jpg 100px - Rocketry's Little Leaguers - Back Seat Navigator By ...

... -hr. flight. This was the first Ranger launch since October 1962, when extensive review of the Ranger project was undertaken because of previous Ranger failures. For RANGER VI , changes were made in subsystems to improve reliability and provide redundancy in some areas; also, sterilization requirements for Ranger spacecraft ...

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