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Episodes Tagged with "Gemini Blue"

Posted on April 20, 2022

NASA feasibility studies determined that a research space laboratory could be placed in orbit by 1967. However, to fund such a project it had to be justified by achieving a national goal, or an important science goal, or test of technology.

P1-Dyna-Soar

P3-Dorian_9_

P3-MOL_01

P2-MOL_configuration

Posted on May 4, 2022

Strangely enough the MOL astronauts only knew of the cover story that the program would be a space laboratory for military experiments and did not learn of the reconnaissance role until after selection.

P2-Early_mockup_of_MOL_laboratory_module_interior

P3-Gemini-B_Heat_Shield with hatch

P1-MOL_01