Anyone in the space industry knows that man space flight is inherently dangerous. In the early days of the Mercury and Gemini and even the Apollo missions, the chances of the guys sitting on top of the rocket getting blown into hash were pretty high.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
But if the agenda is to keep mankind (or at least Americans) confined to the Erf’s surface, then any perceived risk is too high.
Anything to humble America, hobble capitalism, prevent progress, concentrate power to the elites and impoverish the rest of us. Anything.
...Gemini 8 came out of the [radio] dead zone [after the first-ever docking of two vehicles], and Mission Control’s radio crackled on. It was Dave Scott’s voice: "We have a serious problem here.”Thrusters on both the Agena [booster] and the Gemini were firing out of control, spinning the still-connected ships wildly. Hoping the malfunction was in the Agena, [Neil] Armstrong undocked — but Gemini 8 started spinning even faster. The two astronauts’ vision began to blur; they were spinning at one revolution per second and were starting to lose consciousness. Knowing he had only seconds to make a decision, Armstrong shut down the thrusters entirely. Which meant they wouldn’t spin any faster — but since there’s no friction in space, they weren’t slowing down either.
The Gemini had a backup thruster system, used only for reentry — and with only enough fuel for reentry. But Armstrong knew he didn’t have a choice; he switched to backup control, and began to manually fire opposite thrusters to stop the spin. Which worked — but in the process, used up three-quarters of the fuel Armstrong and Scott needed to get out of orbit and safely back through the atmosphere.
Immediately, Mission Control began to plan for an emergency landing, three days ahead of time. Instead of splashing down in the Atlantic, as planned, Gemini 8 would have to reenter the atmosphere beyond the range of NASA’s tracking stations, over China, and land 500 miles east of Okinawa.
Astonishingly, the emergency reentry came off without a hitch — though the remote landing spot meant Armstrong and Scott had to spend three hours bobbing around in the ocean, desperately sea-sick, while they waited for a Navy destroyer to come and pick them up. Other than that, they were perfectly okay. And they both went on to walk on the Moon.