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GEMINI spacecraft orbits Earth after launched into space by an Air Force TITAN II launch vehicle. The two-man vehicle could be headed for a rendezvous attempt with another spacecraft or it could be on an extended flight of a week or more giving the crew experience in flight through outer space.
The Next Fifty Years in Space
by Erik Bergaust
Macmillan, 1964
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Image source: Numbers Station
Man will Conquer Space Soon.
Collier’s, March 22, 1953
Man Will Conquer Space Soon! at Wikipedia
Image credit: Collier’s
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Lockheed’s Extended Lunar Operations was an extensive lunar base development program that would (after Ranger, Surveyor, and Apollo) have begun with the delivery of ELO modules by Saturn C-5s in 1969, an interim lunar exploratory base constructed in mid 1971 and a permanent base complete by 1975.
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