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Gemini On The Moon
wired.com 3 weeks, 1 day agoPresident Kennedy's Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner and NASA split over how Apollo should land men on the moon. Though NASA moved ahead with its chosen mode, Lunar Orbital Rendezvous, it hired contractors to study Wiesner's favorite, Direct Ascent. JFK supported NASA's choice; if, however, he had sided with his Science Adviser, an Apollo spacecraft derived from the two-man Gemini Earth-orbital spacecraft might have landed on the moon.


















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