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... -18. Western speculation, later confirmed, was that Soyuz VI would rendezvous with other spacecraft. Soyuz VII, carrying Cosmonauts Anatoly V. Filipchenko, Vladislav N. Volkov, and Viktor V. Gorbatko, was launched from ... out equipment and communicated with each other. Soyuz VI was conducting medical-biological tests, Soyuz VII was observing and photographing earth and celestial bodies, and Soyuz VIII was conducting research on ...

... was 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 ... did 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 ... bit 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 ...

... ' 9 6—also included aviation development and tactics evaluation, the development of Marine aviation requirements plan for all the Marine Corps. We had a very close relationship with the Department of Navy ... , for my third tour of duty, as the Commanding Officer of Marine Aircraft Group 31, the largest Marine Fighter…Group in the Marine Corps, commanding six F-18 squadrons. I arrived there with ...

... El Toro, I had a feeling that I really liked the Marine situation. I really didn't commit to the Marines until I was a junior in college. The person who really ... to see Norway and Denmark, had a wonderful cruise. Came back, took the Marine option, and became a Marine second lieutenant in June of '54. '''Rusnak:''' Was your intention to get into ... :''' Yes. '''Rusnak:''' So tell me some about your flight experiences as a Marine aviator. '''Carr:''' Well, as a Marine aviator, I finished and got my wings at Kingsville, Texas, in 1956, in ...

NASA's RANGER VII spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy on its flight to the moon. After an almost ... a parking orbit around the earth, and then the Agena engines refired to place RANGER VII on its trajectory to the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras designed to take ... moon. The launching was so accurate that, even without the standard midcourse correction maneuver, RANGER VII would hit the moon. However, scientists wanted pictures of the "Sea of Clouds" region and ...

... , 68 hrs. and 36 min. after takeoff. At news conference on preliminary results from RANGER VII, held at Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , principal experimenter Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of Univ. of ... Transcripts)'' President Johnson personally congratulated scientists and technicians responsible for the successful flight of RANGER VII. He congratulated Dr. William Pickering, Director of JPL, and Dr. Homer Newell, NASA Associate Administrator ...

... research rocket with 250-lb. payload from Eglin AFB, Fla. ''(Eglin AFB Release 65449)'' Gemini VII would be launched Dec. 4 and Gemini VI Dec. 13 in a combination long-duration ... Edward H. White II (L/C, USAF) , and Michael Collins (Maj., USAF) would be Gemini VII 's backup crew. Gemini VI mission would be nearly identical to the original rendezvous flight ... P. Stafford (Maj., USAF) would maneuver the GEMINI VI spacecraft within close proximity of Gemini VII during the fourth revolution and station-keep for a period of time, but would not ...

... , 92.4 min,; inclination, 49°. Equipment was functioning normally. ''(Pravda, 12/22/65, 1)'' Gemini VII Astronauts Lovell and Borman completed the medical phase of their debriefing at KSC. Dr. Charles ... would be available later, NASA released several terrain photographs taken by Astronaut Lovell during Gemini VII 's spaceflight Dec. 4-18. ''(AP, NYT, 12/22/65, 14; AP, Wash, Post, 12 ...

... Franklin’s crew exchanged mementos of a joint experiment conducted during Dec. 4-18 GEMINI VII mission. Benjamin Franklin, with two seconds to fire a Polaris missile so it could be seen by GEMINI VII Astronauts Lovell and Borman as they passed over Cape Kennedy , fired perfectly, enabling the astronauts ... plate from the Polaris missile and crew received the NASA patch from Lovell’s GEMINI VII spacesuit. ‘‘(UPI, Wash. Sun. star, 3/6/66)’’ March 1966 March Mar 1 1966 1 ...

... on Gemini 6, was Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford. He was the Command Pilot on Apollo VII, the first manned flight test of the three direction United States spacecraft. Apollo VII began on October 11, 1968, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele and Lunar Module ... spacecraft systems, and provided the first effective television transmission of on-board crew activities. Apollo VII was placed in an orbit with an apogee of 153.5 nautical miles and a ...

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