90-Minute ‘Walk’ With Satellite
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DALLAS, December 30.
Air Force officials said yesterday that the Gemini IX astronaut Charles Bassett would stroll for 90 minutes in space next year, using a self-sustaining 200-pound satellite.
Bassett will accompany Elliot See, jun., in what National Aeronautics and Space Agency officials have said will be “a real Buck Rogers affair” about the middle of 1966.
The astronaut manoeuvring unit (A.M.U.) will contain a complete propulsion and control system, an automatic stabilisation system, oxygen and environmental control equipment, electric power, two-way communications, telemetry and a malfunction warning system. The Gemini IX astronauts will manoeuvre their vehicles into a rendezvous with an orbiting Agena rocket, park and then lock on to it. The astronauts David Scott and Neil Armstrong will be aboard Gemini VIII next in the Gemini series. Scott will also use the A.M.U., but will carry a space gun for added propulsion. Bassett will be the first
American t'> leave a spacecraft without a space gun for propulsion.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30947, 31 December 1965, Page 13
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