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Oh man! I’ll tell you,
I need some of these missions where
I can look out of the window.
I haven’t looked out of this window
a second and a half. It’s beautiful.
John Young, during the second orbit of Gemini 3.
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In 1962 and again in 1963, the Soviets had launched two pairs of Vostok spacecraft into similar orbits, but they had no capacity to maneuver or rendezvous. It was simply a case of timing the launch of the second spacecraft to ensure that it would arrive into a close orbit with the first spacecraft for at least the first day. Despite Soviet claims of a space rendezvous first, these were more accurately dual flights rather than pure rendezvous experiments.
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Shayler, D.J. (2018). Molly Brown “performing nicely”. In: Gemini Flies!. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68142-9_7
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