The McDonald's on NASA Road One, just down the street from the Saturn Lane gate of the Johnson Space Center, featured a giant fiberglass astronaut floating out from the roof in the posture of one of the old Gemini spacewalkers, holding an order of fries in his outstretched left hand.
As command pilot of the March 1966 Gemini 8 mission, the first in which one spacecraft docked with another vehicle in orbit, Armstrong showed cool composure when a malfunctioning thruster caused his two-man spacecraft to tumble end over end.
The other pair of telescopes, belonging to the Gemini project (whose member countries are America, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada and Chile), will be a little further apart than that some 9, 800km.
The confirmation, based on analysis of 10 billion year-old dying RR Lyrae stars in the Gemini constellation, was done by an international team of astronomers who report their findings in The Astrophysical Journal.
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The team is in the final stages of licensing Gemini-Scout to a commercial robotics company, but for now, the Mine Safety and Health Administration will be the primary customer.
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In Studio 8H (a decade before "Saturday Night Live"), we caught a glimpse of the NBC Space Center being readied for covering the launch a few days later of Gemini 5 astronauts Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad.
The spacecraft conducting this survey known, with a surprising lack of poetry from the organisation that brought you Gemini, Apollo, Viking and Cassini, as Mars Global Surveyor has been circling the planet for the past 14 months.
Astronauts will ride in a capsule at the top of the rocket, as they did in the famous Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.
The new image, which scientists revealed on Wednesday (Jan. 9), was obtained on the night of Dec. 28 using a new adaptive optics system at the Gemini Observatory South telescope in Chile.
In April of 2000, a man named Gemini Wink was hiking through the swamps near Tampa, Florida, looking to take pictures of alligators.
Engineers from both the honeycomb and the thin-mirror camps, who fought bitterly over the contract to make the Gemini mirrors, will be watching closely, to see which of the two pairs of telescopes produces the better images.
Or the Gemini stream could be a remnant of another as yet undetected dwarf galaxy still in the process of being torn asunder by gravitational tidal interactions within our own Milky Way.
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Keck Observatory and the Gemini Observatory, both in Hawaii, took images of three planets orbiting in the far reaches of the system.
If all goes well, the Gemini-Scout could be ready to head underground by the end of next year.
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Some of the top business and technology services consultancies are joining in: Accenture, CAP Gemini, CGI, Cognizant, Deloitte, IBM, Infosys.
During that era of rapid innovation, lives were sacrificed -- by test pilots in space and Gemini astronauts on the ground -- but the space program moved ahead at light speed.
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