Space Flight Ends in Splashdown After 62 Orbits
At 2:45 p.m. EDT the splashdown occurred as the craft reentered over the Pacific after a 62 orbit flight. A computer failure prevented manual control and gravity completed the descent while rescue by the USS Wasp team followed with helicopters hoisting the crew from the sea amid a public mock celebration.
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Hawaii
Guaymas
Mexico
McDivitt
Project Mercury
Wasp
Gemini 4 mission ends with splashdown in Pacific
Men waited after liftoff from Cape Kennedy as Gemini 4 completed a 97 hour 57 minute flight. Cmdr John McDivitt reported the craft bobbing in the sea after Ha waii orbit, with retro rockets slowing entry over Mexico and Guaymas station noting a clean roll to minimize directional change.
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Mediators to probe Dominican charges of reprisals
A trio of inter American peace mediators plans to travel inland Tuesday to investigate accusations that junta forces punish supporters of Dominican rebels. They met Sunday at the Embajador Hotel with diplomatic figures in an exchange of ideas on reconciling rival factions. earlier OAS teams have failed in similar efforts.
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Santo Domingo
UPI
Embajador Hotel
OAS
Ohio weekend fatalities reach 26 with drownings and crashes
United Press International reports a deadly Memorial Day weekend in Ohio with 26 deaths across five states. The toll includes five-year-old BethAnn Tish in Millersburg, two Warren men in a plane crash, and multiple traffic drownings and collisions from Canton to Cleveland.
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Canton
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