Posted on 11/11/2006 3:31:26 PM PST by KevinDavis
CHICAGO - The last time Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin saw their Gemini 12 spacecraft together, it was bobbing in the Atlantic Ocean following their 1966 mission.
The two astronauts were reunited with the capsule Thursday as part of a new permanent exhibit called “Shoot for the Moon,” at the Adler Planetarium.
“This was a good bird. It did its job,” Lovell said of the capsule, which has burn marks on its base from its re-entry into the atmosphere, and a jumble of switches and toggles on its control panel.
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Gemini did good for a 100% military space program. They were in danger countless times in space and during launch procedures, but somehow always returned alive from patrol and maneuvers.
Really sad...if you look at MSNBC's website there's a hyperlink entitled NASA's Glory Days 1960s and 70s.
Call me crazy but wasn't it the MSM that badmouthed space missions as wastes of tax dollars when the money could be better served bankrolling socialism?
Typical journalism: Lampoon and destroy anything virtuous then present several news reports on the glory days of said virtue. Isn't it a shame we aren't like we were in the good old days. Who killed that program: Nixon? Pathetic socialist retards!!!
And if anybody knew who he was at the time, Fritz Mondale.
The joke was that NASA screwed up big time with Proxmire by not finding a way to utilized milk or cheese to launch rockets.
The thing I remember about Mondale is a blurb in the paper about a reporter calling government information to get
his number after he was sworn in as VP. The operators had no idea who he was, so that became a story for the reporter.
G12 wea team member @ Cape & JSC
DoD wea team member
I'm not sure if I'm remembering this correctly, but wasn't this the mission where Lovell couldn't get back into the capsule, and Aldrin was considering cutting him lose?
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