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terte.”)od.9V#iextilly:ter.ittleondis-lica-nowleepraft,vhate’regetyouruobuu a i ci#ui if xfMM. -.vfliv# uciumr'i: apetheir astronaut father continues orRH(ca’stantABOARD THE USS WASP (UPI)—An air of tension from the approaching splashdown of astronauts Jamed McDivitt and Edward White added spark to routine drills Saturday over the vast recovery fleet in the Atlantic nigfc Ocean. AMThe carrier Wasp positioned ^ itself abpiit 380 miles southwest j-ra]n of Bermuda to hold there for +0 r the 30th and 33d orbits of the c0m McDivitt-White spaceship. The 0f £ position was taken in cases the jaiJ Gemini-4 was forced to. come down before the astronauts com- H pleted the planned orbits. WhiThe Wasp continued to conduct cai’rier-landing qualification w flights for pilots. Throughout the T1 fleet, crews in h i g h spirits like practiced recovery procedures for j| the two astronauts. tonthe
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Pacific Stars and Stripes

Tokyo, Tôkyô, JP

Mon, Jun 07, 1965

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