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Creation Date
5-9-1966
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May 9, 1966
MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS – Gemini IX News Conference – The Gemini IX prime crew, Astronauts Eugene A. Cernan (left), pilot, and Thomas P. Stafford (center), command pilot, use a model of an astronaut wearing an Astronaut Maneuvering Unit to explain the scheduled Gemini IX EVA to news media representatives at an MSC Pre-Mission Press Conference held in the Building 6 Auditorium. Astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., (in background), backup crew command pilot, and Edwinn E. Aldrin Jr., (right) backup crew pilot, look on. Cernan will wear an AMU during his Gemini IX extravehicular activity.
Keywords
NASA, Gemini, Gemini 9, Gemini IX