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Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
Good info, cash78mere, only one correction (unrepentant space buff that I am  ) to set the record straight :
Richard Gordon actually flew on Gemini XI (Gemini flight numbers were always in Roman numerals except for the first three missions) with Charles 'Pete' Conrad, and later flew the command module Yankee Clipper while fellow crewmen Conrad and Alan Bean landed on the Moon during the Apollo 12 mission aboard the lunar module Intrepid. BTW, Gordon was a Navy commander (both the Gemini XI and Apollo 12 crews were all-Navy).
Gemini 2 was an unmanned space flight test of the Gemini capsule. It later became the first space capsule to be reused (and this was long before the Space Shuttle), becoming the 'Blue Gemini' space capsule for the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory flight test.
Hope this helps.
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alphasig-
cool info
i copied that directly from the article that was sent to me that was published in the old LYRE. being as i know nothing about space, i can only assume that since the article was published before the flight, maybe things changed? i don't know!
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