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Definition of Gemini program
1. Noun. A program of space flights undertaken by US in 1965 and 1966. "Under the Gemini program each crew had two astronauts"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gemini Program
Literary usage of Gemini program
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle by Roger E. Bilstein (1999)
"The same year, NASA began its own series of two-man launches with the Gemini
program. With a modified Titan II ICBM as the booster, the first Gemini mission ..."
2. High Frontier: The U.S. Air Force & the Military Space Program by Curtis Peebles (1998)
"... participation in the gemini program to demonstrate manned rendezvous. At a
November 1962 meeting with NASA Administrator James E. Webb and Associate ..."
3. Space Flight: The First Thirty Years (1993)
"It was during the gemini program that space flight became routine. Ten manned
missions left the launch pads of Cape Canaveral in less than 20 months, ..."
4. Where No Man Has Gone Before: A History of Apollo Lunar Exploration Missions by William D. Compton (1996)
"... constraints of the mission.48 Within the gemini program Office a Gemini
Experiments Office supervised the science exercises undertaken in Gemini. ..."
5. Space Handbook: A War Fighter's Guide to Space by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"Subsequently, McNamara insisted on an equal or dominant role for the Air Force
in the gemini program. NASA claimed that this level of Air Force involvement ..."
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