Gemini Midprogram Conference, Including Experiment Results (NASA Sp-121)

Houston, TX. Houston, TX: NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Near Fine. 1966. 1st Edition. Softcover. Slight curl and faint creasing to corner of front cover; slight curl to corner of first several pages. Tight and square, pages are clean and bright. This is NOT an ex-library book, nor is it a reprint. . This is a set of conference proceedings, from a conference held February 23-25, 1966, in the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston. The conference presented a summary of the Gemini Program to date with emphasis on the first seven missions. The objectives of Gemini were: to subject man and equipment to space flight up to two weeks in duration; to rendezvous and dock with orbiting vehicles and to maneuver the docked combination by using the target vehicle's propulsion system; to perfect methods of entering the atmosphere and landing at a preselected point on land. The papers presented at the conference treat spacecraft and launch-vehicle description and development, mission operations, and mission results; and the results of experiments performed. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 443 pages. B0 .