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Gemini 6 - The NASA Mission Reports (Paperback)
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Gemini 6 - The NASA Mission Reports (Paperback)
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Loot Price R458
Discovery Miles 4 580
You Save R43 (9%)
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CD-ROM and Book. Lost in the glare of Apollo's success, the Gemini
program is often forgotten. Without the ten successful manned
Gemini missions NASA could not have accomplished Kennedy's
seemingly impossible goal of landing a man on the moon in the
1960s. Gemini 6 the fifth manned flight of America's two-man
spacecraft. Aboard were Commander Wally Schirra and rookie pilot
Tom Stafford. Their original mission flight plan was to attempt the
first ever docking and rendezvous in space, an essential step if
the pilots flying Apollo would ever be able to meet up in orbit
around the moon. The Soviet Union had claimed the first space
rendezvous but many felt that unless the pilot was in control and
able to manoeuvre around the accompanying vehicle it could not
truly be called a rendezvous. On October 25th 1965 the target
vehicle, known as Atlas/Agenda failed to make orbit and so the crew
of Gemini 6 were suddenly presented with a totally revised and
audacious flight plan. The long duration Gemini 7 mission was
already scheduled for launch and so the crew of Gemini 6 were told
that NASA would attempt a double manned mission and
rendezvous.;This was undoubtedly a risky proposition which would
stretch the NASA infra-structure to its limits. On December 15th
1965 ace pilot Schirra and rendezvous maestro Stafford closed to
within a meter of Gemini 7 and America was one step closer to the
moon. Includes: Windows CD-ROM featuring: an exclusive recent
interview with Commander Wally Schirra; all of the still photo
images taken during the mission; two 28 minutes - 'Gemini Science'
and 'Gemini 7 and 6' plus the complete 16 mm film from the mission.
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