GEMINI PLAN
Launching Next Week
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) CAPE KENNEDY (Florida), March 11
A walk in space lasting more than two hours and an actual docking rendezbous with a target rocket are the highlights of the programme for the spacecraft Gemini VIII to be launched from Cape Kennedy on a three-day mission next week.
Launching is set for 4.41 a.m., New Zealand time. It will be just 101 minutes after the Agena target rocket is sent aloft to go into a circular orbit 185 miles above the earth. The crew of Gemini Vlll will be Neil Armstrong, a civilian test pilot, and Major David Scott, of the United States Air Force.
Major Scott has been chosen to climb out of the spacecraft on the second day of the mission.
Attached to the craft by a tether, he will go through a series of exercises and tests while Gemini Vlll makes one and a half circuits of the earth.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 15
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156GEMINI PLAN Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 15
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