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A tale of two hatches

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On 7 December 1961 Robert Gilruth, director of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, announced plans for a spacecraft that would be piloted by two astronauts and would advance the United States to the next level of manned space flight. This new program would help to develop manned space flight rendezvous techniques in a more spacious craft capable of docking with other vehicles while in Earth orbit. This “Advanced Mercury” concept would also serve as a bridge between the Mercury and Apollo lunar landing programs. Since no project title had been officially assigned to the new program, it was simply referred to as Mercury Mark II.

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  1. Bonnet Bay, New South Wales, Australia

    Colin Burgess

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Burgess, C. (2014). A tale of two hatches. In: Liberty Bell 7. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04391-3_7

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