Posted on 03/20/2006 4:47:48 PM PST by KevinDavis
In recent years the early era of the Air Force’s manned space program have become less murky. Although the details of this early period are still relatively scarce, scholars—many of them working for the Air Force or with its support—have unearthed clues about efforts by General Bernard Schriever to get the Air Force into the manned spaceflight program by any possible means. One project that is now much clearer is the short-lived Blue Gemini program, which was a natural outgrowth of Schriever’s goal to get Air Force officers—blue suiters, as they called themselves—into orbit as soon as possible.
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At one time Shuttles were to be launched from Vandenberg, but that never happened.
Dyna Soar/Manned Orbiting Platform remnants. Couple of the guys got put into late Apollo rotation and stayed long enough to do a space shuttle mission or two.
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