....Jeez, Jud - haven't you figured out you're chatting with a troll?

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:34:00 -0500, Jud McCranie
wrote:

That's what is in the movie, but wasn't the actual possible plan to do
a figure 8 with a Gemini around the moon, launched with a Titan III?

....IIRC, the plan called for two Titan II launches - one with a
Gemini, one with an uprated Centaur with an ADTA on the end. The
Gemini would dock with the Centaur, and Pete Conrad and whoever got
lucky enough to tag along would get shot backwards into a Circumlunar
trajectory.

OM

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