Lot 111
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[PROJECT GEMINI]. A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS DURING THE GEMINI PROGRAM

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  • SIGNED BY SIX GEMINI ASTRONAUTS
GRIMWOOD, JAMES M., BARTON HACKER and PETER VORZIMMER. Project Gemini, Technology and Operations, A Chronology. NASA SP-4002. Washington: 1969. XVI, 308 pp. 10 ½ by 8 inches. Original blue cloth. Library of Congress stamp on half title.

Catalogue Note

SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the frontispiece photograph of the Gemini 7 spacecraft after rendezvous with Gemini 6 as: “BUZZ ALDRIN, Gemini XII; GORDON COOPER, GT 5; RICHARD GORDON, GT 11; JAMES LOVELL, GT 7 and GT 12; TOM STAFFORD, Gemini 6, 9; and WALLY SCHIRRA.” A month by month and nearly day by day chronology of significant Gemini events from April 1959 to February 1967. Contains dozens of photographs, drawings, and diagrams. Seven appendixes include flight summaries, mission objectives, spacecraft data, program costs, and a listing of contractors, subcontractors, and equipment vendors.