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The Gemini 9 T-38 crash that nearly destroyed NASA’s moon plans, and changed Apollo 11 forever

In February 1966, a Gemini crew’s T 38 jet slammed into McDonnell’s Building 101 in a storm, killing two astronauts and narrowly missing the heart of the Gemini program. Had the impact been just ...
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Mercury and Gemini Program Manuals [Pruett]

This collection consists of the following manuals, many of which are annotated by Captain Carl E. Pruett, MC USN: MR-3 post-flight debriefing of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Project Mercury Familiarization ...
Astronomy

A farewell to Jim Lovell

Lovell, the first individual to complete four spaceflights, significantly advanced the Gemini program's objectives through missions like Gemini VII, which established extended duration flight records ...
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NASA Project Gemini familiarization manual : long range and modified configurations

"Hooven-Dayton Co. [printer], November 1965." "This document supersedes document dated 15 March 1964 and includes change dated 31 December 1964." "Section 8 [Guidance and control systems] is contained ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Sixty Years Ago, When Instruments Were Played in Space for the First Time, It Was ‘Jingle Bells’ All the Way

Astronauts Tom Stafford (left) and Wally Schirra (right) demonstrating with two model space crafts during an interview in the 1960s Donald Uhrbrock / Getty Images On December 15, 1965, NASA’s mission ...