The Learning Curve

NASA builds a ladder to the moon

Project Gemini allows NASA to develop techniques that will take them to the moon. Wally Schirra, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Gene Cernan and others practise rendezvous, docking and extra-vehicular skills. Frank Borman and James Lovell investigate long-term spaceflight by enduring two weeks in orbit confined to an area smaller than the front seat of a VW Beetle.

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