U S Leads Manned Space Flight with Near Rendezvous
The United States gains space leadership as Gemini 6 and 7 astronauts perform a near nose to nose rendezvous. Walter Schirra Thomas Stafford observe Gemini 7 crew Frank Borman and James Lovell from 3 miles apart. Russians fail to achieve a true rendezvous and lack a maneuvering spacecraft.
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Space Medicine Chief Lovelace Dies In Colorado Plane Crash
Dr W Randolph Lovelace director of space medicine for NASA died in a light plane crash near Aspen Colorado along with his wife Mary 53 and Milton Brown 27 of Albuquerque The trio were aboard a plane missing since Sunday and found at the 11000 foot level in Independence Pass Civil Air Patrol searches followed as other aircraft went missing in heavy snow and wind The death caps a day of aviation losses amid Colorado New Mexico weather
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