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Gemini Capsule Launched ... On A String
msnbc.com 5 days, 2 hours agoScience editor Alan Boyle's blog: A Gemini capsule takes flight against the backdrop of outer space. So what if it's a paper model hanging from a balloon? The view is still astro-awesome.
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Gemini On The Moon
wired.com 3 weeks, 6 days 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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