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Resuming flight

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As Apollo-Saturn development continued, human spaceflight resumed aboard the Gemini-Titan. During the first nine months of 1965 the agency flew three piloted Gemini missions, demonstrating spacecraft maneuverability, and Edward H. White II became the first American to perform an extravehicular activity in space. However, the Soviet space program conducted unannounced flights just before scheduled NASA missions, and behind the scenes the Apollo Program experienced significant schedule delays and cost overruns. Nonetheless, Mueller continued to promote the post-Apollo program as a means of maintaining the technical capability that was being built for Apollo.

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Slotkin, A.L. (2012). Resuming flight. In: Doing the Impossible. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3701-7_4

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