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Project Gemini’s start actually came about because of Apollo. The first approach for getting to the Moon was a direct ascent technique, in which a gigantic rocket, the Nova, would launch an assembled vehicle that would travel to the Moon, land there, and return to Earth.
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Thomas, K.S., McMann, H.J. (2012). Gemini: The first approaches to exploring and working in space. In: U. S. Spacesuits. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9566-7_5
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