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"A wonderful collection of rarely seen photographs that true space buffs will enjoy. The captions are worth their weight in space-fact gold."--Richard W. Orloff, coauthor of Apollo: The Definitive Sourcebook.

Space photography --- Astronautics --- Photography in astronautics --- Spaceborne photography --- Astronomical photography --- Space sciences --- Aeronautics --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Project Gemini (U.S.) --- Project Mercury (U.S.) --- Gemini Project (U.S.) --- Man-in-space Program (U.S.) --- United States. --- History.

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This third book of the Gemini mission series focuses on the flight that simulated in Earth orbit the duration of an eight-day Apollo mission to the Moon. After the proof-of-concept test flights Gemini 1, 2 and 3 (as described in GEMINI FLIES!) and the success of the first American EVA as well as the four-day U.S. mission (GEMINI 4), NASA gained the confidence to gradually increase mission time spent in orbit. This is the first known book to focus solely on the Gemini 5 mission and its challenges with equipment failures and difficult living conditions. The mission was targeted to double the endurance of the previous one, and as such was an integral stepping stone for an even more audacious mission four months later. Attempting the eight- and then fourteen-day durations would be an opportunity for America to gain the lead in space exploration over the Soviets. This mission pioneered the duration of a flight to the Moon and back three years before Apollo 8 made that journey, without a lunar landing, for the first time.

Aerospace engineering. --- Astronautics. --- Outer space—Exploration. --- Aerospace Technology and Astronautics. --- Space Exploration and Astronautics. --- Aeronautical engineering --- Aeronautics --- Astronautics --- Engineering --- Space sciences --- Astrodynamics --- Space flight --- Space vehicles --- Extravehicular activity (Manned space flight) --- Space flight to the moon. --- Project Gemini (U.S.) --- Flight to the moon --- Lunar expeditions --- Lunar flight --- Space walk --- Spacewalk --- Walking in space --- Manned space flight --- Extravehicular activity --- Gemini Project (U.S.) --- Man-in-space Program (U.S.)