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... AFB, Fla. ''(Eglin AFB Release 65449)'' Gemini VII would be launched Dec. 4 and Gemini VI Dec. 13 in a combination long-duration, rendezvous mission, NASA announced. Astronaut Frank Borman (L ... M. Schirra (Capt. USN) and Pilot Thomas P. Stafford (Maj., USAF) would maneuver the GEMINI VI spacecraft within close proximity of Gemini VII during the fourth revolution and station-keep for ...

Attempt to launch Gemini VI from ETR was unsuccessful when an electric plug connecting the Titan II booster to the ... , 12/13/65, Al; Simons, Wash, Post, 12/13/65, Al; MSC Gemini VII / Gemini VI Fact Sheet)'' Statement by President Johnson on the delay of the Gemini VI flight: "We are all disappointed that GEMINI VI did not go off as expected. But our disappointment is exceeded by ...

... KSC, Astronauts Schirra and Stafford personally thanked the 400 men responsible for the successful Gemini VI launching. The astronauts would undergo medical examinations and debriefings for three days and then fly ... released clear, detailed, color and black and white photographs of the Gemini VII -VI rendezvous taken by the Gemini VI astronauts. ''(UPI, Wash, Post, 12/18/65, El)'' Jerome Lederer, director of ...

NASA's Surveyor VI (Surveyor-F) was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Centaur (AC-14) ... -dog," furnishing information on solar radiation for correct interpretation of Surveyor VI's soil analyses. At 00:04:06 GET Surveyor VI with two-burn Centaur separated from Atlas and ignited to ... precise landing on target in Sinus Medii in center of moon's front face. Surveyor VI was sixth in series of seven spacecraft designed to prove out design, develop technology of ...

... , Engineering and Resources. ''(Smith, NYT, 2/25/69, 53)'' February 24-28: NASA'S Mariner VI (Mariner F) spacecraft was successfully launched from Eastern Test Range ETR by Atlas-Centaur (SLV ... astronomical data. Sharp increase in data returns would be achieved over 1964 Mariner missions. Mariner VI TV pictures would contain 3.9-million bits of information; Mariner IV contained 240,000 ...

... ; SBD, 12/18/70, 200)'' Fifth anniversary of NASA's Pioneer VI interplanetary probe. Since launch Dec. 16, 1965, Pioneer VI had orbited sun six times, covering 5.3 billion km (3 ... and mass of moon and planets; and performed experiment to check theory of relativity. Pioneer VI data had filled 11700 km (7300 mi) of analog data tapes, recording 35 billion data ... 290 million km (180 million mi). First of four Pioneer probes now in orbit, Pioneer VI was firmly stabilized in plane of earth's orbit by its 60-rpm spin and ...

... difficult problem for NASA. What is the role of a program manager in Headquarters vis-a-vis a program manager in a field center? When I was up here as Deputy Administrator ... always became a very difficult task, what was the role of the manager in Headquarters vis-a-vis the manager in the program. That was tough. At Johnson, it was quite different ...

... first missions, we finally got ready, and our first Agena mission was the Gemini VI spacecraft, Gemini VI mission. It was the first Agena spacecraft. And this little beauty, we launched ahead ... be their target in lieu of an Agena. The next flight—let's see, Gemini VI and VII rendezvoused together, two spacecrafts, so I guess it would have been—no, Gemini ... we flew. Well, somewhere, I forget which Gemini it was, whether it was VII or VI, but somewhere in there, in that interim period of time, they had this docking adapter ...

... on the Apollo Program for the lunar landing. We were six months away from Gemini VI and we didn’t have any orbital rendezvous procedures that worked. The simulator there at ... is in process now? '''Grimm:''' Yes, we’re like three months from flight on Gemini VI. So he had this meeting and he made that recommendation and Gilruth asked Bill Tindall ... think those were the major problems. By the time we got halfway through between Gemini VI and Gemini XII we worked out all the bugs in the simulators and in the ...

... exactly that kind of person. I mean, just great. That was Gemini V. Gemini VII/VI was interesting just from a standpoint of a gutsy management decision. It was when the ... back in the ’40s. '''Neal:''' Isn’t it remarkable that, after the experience of VII/VI, you had Gemini VIII? laughter '''Kranz:''' Yeah. '''Neal:''' Tell us about that one. '''Kranz:''' Well ... of history on the Agena spacecraft. We had lost the Agena on the Gemini VII/VI mission. There was a general lack of trust between Lockheed Company and the Air Force ...

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