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Space Rocket History #78 - Gemini IX-A with Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan - Part 2 - Rendevouz

Posted September 4, 201400:42:29

As contractors worried about technical problems with the Atlas, Once again NASA, faced the necessity for a quick recovery plan when a target vehicle...

Space Rocket History #77 - Gemini IX-A with Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan - Part 1

Posted August 28, 201400:35:03

After the untimely deaths of Elliot See and Charles Basset, NASA assigned the Gemini IX prime crew positions to Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan.  This...

Space Rocket History #76 - Tragic Prelude to Gemini IX with Elliot See, Charles Bassett, Tom Stafford, and Gene Cernan

Posted August 21, 201400:28:48

In October 1965, Elliot M. See and Charles A. Bassett II were selected to fly Gemini IX. Chief Astronaut Deke Slayton also told them that their backups...

Space Rocket History #75 - Luna 10, Surveyor 1, and Lunar Orbiter 1 - Scouting the Moon

Posted August 14, 201400:40:13

In the 1960s, during the cold war, the US and Soviet Union turned their attention to the moon. The question was, who could place a man on the moon and...

Space Rocket History #74 - Gemini VIII with Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott - Part 3

Posted August 7, 201400:35:58

Armstrong eased Gemini VIII toward the target at a barely perceptible speed of 8 centimeters per second. Then Armstrong gleefully reported, “Flight,...