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Than ever before. on september 17th 1962 armstrong was introduced as one of the 9 new nasa astronauts he was one of 2 civilians in the group the rest were active military pilots these men would take part in the gemini program which would feature a 2 manned spacecraft. that same evening armstrong's parents viola and stephen were special guests on a popular t.v. quiz program. the
Mcdevitt. john young. and frank borman. in june 1902 neil armstrong applied to become an astronaut. at this point in his life armstrong was trying to cope with a very serious personal tragedy. his 2 year old daughter karen died of a brain tumor in january $962.00. armstrong dealt with his grief by working harder than ever before. on september 17th 1962 armstrong was introduced as one of the 9 astronauts he was one of 2 civilians in the group the rest were active military pilots these men would take part in the gemini program which would feature a 2 manned spacecraft. that
Than ever before. on september 17th 1962 armstrong was introduced as one of the 9 new nasa astronauts he was one of 2 civilians in the group the rest were active military pilots these men would take part in the gemini program which would feature a 2 manned spacecraft. to go to that same evening armstrong's parents file and stephen were special guests on a popular t.v. quiz program. the
In late '61, early '62, i forget about which, and he orbited for 24 hours. nasa just says we've. we're probably caught up in the gemini program. . he became good friends with jfk. president kennedy and the kennedy family. . john kennedy gave nasa orders not to let him fly anymore, because he didn't want to the kill a national hero. ment -- he figured it out, as you know, and he got into politics. he came back to fly in 1998 on the shuttle discovery at the age of 77, and by golly, when he got
>> it was a two-manned spacecraft. the gemini program was specifically to show that we could do a rendezvous and dock. >> in order to get to the moon, you had to have the capability of two weeks in space. you had to be able to rendezvous. you had to be able to do eva, get outside the spacecraft and have a guided reentry. we practiced all those missions in gemini. so gemini was an extremely part of theprogram. >> reporter: in 1964, on gemini iv the first american performed an eva, extra vehicular activity, or space walk. america was still playing catch-up, however. soviet cosmonaut had performe...