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- From: mheney@access.digex.com (Michael K. Heney)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: MOL (and Almaz)
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:09:48 GMT
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- References: <ewright.724543661@convex.convex.com> <phfrom.413@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> <1992Dec18.111817.24990@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Dec18.111817.24990@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk) writes:
- >
- >A mockup station (really just empty Titan tankage somewhat similar in
- >size to a real station) and the first test capsule (which I believe
- >was the refitted Gemini 2 capsule (with the new hatch in the heatshield)
- >were launched around 1970.
-
- I *think* it was actually the Gemini 3 capsule that was used for this.
- I remember hearing it touted as "the first reuse of a manned spacecraft"
- or something to that effect. Of course, I was only about 12 at the time ...
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