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The Rigors of Spaceflight: Inside Gemini 7
Posted in: News | by Brian Taylor | 2024 Dec 04
Gemini 7
Imagine spending nearly 14 days confined inside the Gemini 7 capsule, now displayed at the National Air and Space Museum. In December 1965, Command Pilot Frank Borman and Pilot Jim Lovell endured almost two weeks in a space roughly the size of the front of a VW Beetle—a remarkable demonstration of human endurance in space.
Borman later described the last three days of the mission as ”bad.” To pass the time, he read Roughing It by Mark Twain, while Lovell read Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds.
