Gemini VII Down Safely
(N.Z. Press Assn.-Copyright) HOUSTON, Dee. 19. The Gemini VH astronauts, stiff but alert and smiling, returned from a recordbreaking 14-day space journey to a safe landing in the Atlantic yesterday. Frank, Bornum and Janies
Lovell splashed down within 17 miles of the aircraft carrier Wasp precisely as planned. Within a few minutes they were hoisted aboard a havering helicopter. They stepped from the helicopter to the flight deck of the carrier, greeted by “Anchors Aweigh.” played by the ship’s band, and the eheers of the sailors. After a medical examination on the carrier, the astro-
nauts will be flown to Capo Kennedy today for debriefings and further medical studies. The next United Staten manned space craft, Gemini VHI, to scheduled to be launched about March. On the mission, astronauts intend to rendezvous with an unmanned target vehicle and then physically link with it The mission should last two days. W
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 17
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