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- From: jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: is this the 50th space shuttle launch?
- Message-ID: <564@rml.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 19:55:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.152507.19177@unocal.com> <BuDHzK.6q8@unx.sas.com> <phfrom.283@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
- Reply-To: jack@rml.UUCP (jack hagerty)
- Organization: Robotic Midwives, Ltd.
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- In article <phfrom.283@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert) writes:
- >
- >This is not so unusual: Also Gemini 7 was launched before Gemini 6 in Dec 65.
-
- Yes, but the *tried* to launch GT-6 ahead of GT-7.
-
- GT-6 was originally an Agena rendezvous mission that was aborted
- at T+1 seconds due to an umbilical that came out early (auto shutdown
- after engine start). It took nerves of steel on the part of Tom
- Stafford not to hit the ejection button while sitting on top of
- all those hpergolic propellants!
-
- They recycled the mission as GT-6A and made it part of the long
- duration GT-7 mission where they rendevoused, but (of course)
- didn't dock.
-
- - Jack
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