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... ones, like Spain. But the big thing, I guess, that comes to mind is paraglider. Now, the paraglider, great idea. We'd landed Mercury in the water, and because it had not ... , so that it could skid along the ground when it landed, and the paraglider. Now, you know what the paraglider is. It's a triangular device, totally flexible. It was designed by ... . He said, “Pete.” He called me Peter, actually. “Peter, I want the paraglider in Gemini because I want the paraglider in Gemini.” You know, when somebody says that to you in this ...

... four-and-one-half-minute flight suspended beneath the wing. He put the previously-inflated paraglider and simulated spacecraft through a series of turn and pitch maneuvers enroute to his landing ... his glide through an onboard flight-control system. North American Aviation , Inc, was conducting the paraglider program for NASA Manned Spacecraft Center , studying the feasibility of a controlled earth landing system ...

... . Off.; AP, Wash. Eve. Star, 7/30/64)'' NASA conducted two successful test-flights of paraglider vehicles at Edwards AFB , Calif. In the first test, a simulated Gemini spacecraft manned by ... American Aviation, Inc., test pilot E P. Hetzel was towed aloft beneath a pre-inflated paraglider landing system. The tow test vehicle (TTV) was towed to 6,000-ft. altitude by ... the Gemini test vehicle. The tests were part of NASA's continuing evaluation of the paraglider system as a means of landing and recovering manned spacecraft ''(MSC Roundup, 8/5/64 ...

... the scheduled Project Gemini space flights, MSC Public Affairs Officer Paul Haney announced. Development of paraglider system was too far behind for the 12 scheduled flights. After many rumors and much ... first manned free-flight test of the system, which was unsuccessful. Development and testing of paraglider by North American Aviation would continue, Haney said. ''(Maloney, Houston Post, 8/11/64)'' Ernest ...

... Hist.; AP, Wash. Post, 10/2/63)'' Definitive contract for research and development of a paraglider system for landing of Project Gemini spacecraft was awarded by MSC to Space and Information ... being developed for Gemini is by parachute, similar to the one used in Project Mercury . Paraglider would be designed for land landings, parachute. for water landings, although both systems have eventual ...

... detonated. ''(NASA Rpt. SRL)'' First manned free-flight test of Gemini paraglider landing system was unsuccessful at Edwards AFB , Calif. The paraglider, with pilot E. P. Hetzel of North American Aviation in ... . Pilot Hetzel lost control and at 3,000 ft. was forced to bail out. The paraglider crashed. ''(Wash. Eve. Star, 8/7/64)'' NASA and Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of ...

... -346)'' Final test in North American Aviation Space and Information Systems Div.'s seven-month paraglider operational test program was successfully completed at Edwards AFB , when Gemini boilerplate suspended beneath an inflated paraglider was towed to 9,000- to 10,000-ft. altitudes and released for free flights ...

... Langley Research Center announced contract with Space-General Corp. for the development of an inflatable paraglider to measure micrometeoroid flux in the lower regions of space up to 700,000 feet ... of alternate layers of mylar and aluminum and will determine suitability of inflatable re-entry paraglider. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India visited the tracking station built by Goddard Space Flight ...

... of further radiation belts. NASA indicated it would begin series of flights with an inflatable paraglider in mid-1963. Flights would provide information on frequency and size of micrometeoroid particles in space and allow post-flight laboratory study of impacts caused by such particles. Paraglider would be launched by Aerobee research rocket from White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) to height ...

... tests for Gemini manned spacecraft landings. Kite-like paraglider was towed aloft by biplane and released to glide downward. Maj. Grissom landed the paraglider upright, although the craft's nose wheel crumpled ...

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