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... . Then you want to know about the next one on the Gemini VIII mission, I think. '''Butler:''' Yes, Gemini VIII would be the next. Were you involved, though, actually even before that ... . But I remember that interview, and I remember telling him that going into the Gemini VIII mission, the Agena had to be the most scrutinized and tested vehicle that ever flew ... , they actually ended up rendezvousing with two of the Agenas, theirs and the one from VIII. '''Brooks:''' Yes. That was always an objective of the project, was to dock with one ...

... -shift all remaining missions so we could move teams over to Apollo. So for Gemini VIII, we were two-shifting, myself and Hodge. Hodge was launching and I replaced him after ... steep that every time we flew a mission, we learned something. Sometimes, like on Gemini VIII, we were just lucky. And luck’s got no business in spaceflight. So we had to eliminate the luck component. We now looked differently, and the Gemini VIII was good from a standpoint of downstream missions, because we had so many missions we ...

... Media:65-02-17.pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) NASA's RANGER VIII spacecraft, equipped with six television cameras to photograph part of the moon's surface, was ... convert solar energy to electrical power for its equipment. About 3½ hrs. after launch, RANGER VIII completed its orientation maneuvering, achieved attitude stabilization, and pointed a high-powered antenna toward earth ...

... down. as the probable cause of the difficulty which cut short the flight of GEMINI VIII .” MSC Director Dr. Robert R. Gilruth said data ruled out any possibility of pilot error ... automatic camera mounted on Armstrong’s window in the GEMINI VIII were made public by NASA. Films showed maneuvers of GEMINI VIII in docking with Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV and gyrations ... officials to attempt to reconstruct events leading to their loss of control of the GEMINI VIII spacecraft March 16. Scott told a crowd at the airstrip that “the lift off, launching ...

... planned for 4:57:30, and at 3° north latitude and 24° east longitude. RANGER VIII had been programed to execute a "terminal sequence" just before impact to point the six ... and more telemetry data had been lost during midcourse maneuver than had been expected. RANGER VIII had been launched Feb. 17 from Cape Kennedy . ''(NASA Transcript; Appel, NYT, 2/21/65 ... P. Kuiper of the Univ. of Arizona, heading the panel for scientific evaluation of RANGER VIII photographs, said at a press conference that one of the most important results of this ...

... GET brought docked configuration into same orbit as Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV VIII -launched March 16 for GEMINI VIII mission-preparatory to later rendezvous.. Standup Eva began at 23:27 GET ... Eva began at 48:08 GET: Collins removed fairing from Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV VIII and retrieved micrometeoroid detection experiment-completing most productive work ever accomplished on Eva mission. Collins ...

... of changes in illumination created by the Sun and other scientific experiments." Third spacecraft, Soyuz VIII, carrying Cosmonauts Vladimir A. Shatalov and Dr. Aleksey S. Yeliseyev, was launched from Baikonur at ... medical-biological tests, Soyuz VII was observing and photographing earth and celestial bodies, and Soyuz VIII was conducting research on polarization of solar light reflected by atmosphere. On Oct. 14 Tass ...

... . (8) Historian A. L. Rowse, a leading British expert on the Elizabethan age, considers Henry VIII's final failure to conquer the French one of the luckiest embarrassments England ever endured ... against the French with which Henry nearly bankrupted his government, see: J.J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 1968, pp. 3335, 453456, and virtually the entire rest ...

... satellites launched included Intelsat III F-2 comsat for ComSatCorp and ESSA VII and VIII meteorological satellites for ESSA. Scientific achievements included orbiting of NASA'S OGO V , Aao ... was successfully used by GSFC as target in first daylight opera­tional laser tracking. Pioneer IX , launched into solar orbit, carried Tetr II pickaback and ejected it into earth ...

... terminated early after monkey's physiological condition deteriorated, and monkey died shortly after recovery. Pioneer E, scheduled to enter solar orbit, and its secondary payload TETR-C were ... Soyuz V to Soyuz IV before returning to earth. Manned Soyuz VI , VII, and VIII, launched on three successive days, rendezvoused in orbit and performed experiments including photography, communications ...

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