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Gemini 6 and 7 Reach Close Rendezvous in Space Flight
United Press International reports Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 achieved the first in-space rendezvous. Schirra and Stafford manned Gemini 6 closed to within 6 to 10 feet of Borman and Lovell in Gemini 7 after 11 days aloft. The mission demonstrated contact at high speed and a step toward moon landing, while Gemini 7 continued its 14 day mission despite fuel-cell issues. In other global news, Haiphong power plant was hit near Saigon, NATO ties with China wavered, and a cyclone devastated East Pakistan killing thousands. Somerset Maugham died at 91 in Nice.
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Gemini 6
Walter Schirra
Thomas Stafford
Schirra
Stafford
Frank Borman
James Lovell
United States
Soviet Union
Atlantic
Wasp
Saigon
Haiphong
Viet Nam
Hanoi
Paris
U.S
McNamara
America
NATO
China
Europe
Rusk
United Nations
Harold Wilson
World Organization
Wilson
U.N
Britain
Ian Smith
Washington
Mohammad Ayub Khan
Pakistan
Johnson
White House
Ndia
Dacca
East Pakistan
Santo Domingo
Nice
France
W. Somerset Maugham