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The [jungle] training was deemed necessary by NASA officials when they realized that the longer Gemini missions would require the spacecraft to travel over a greater area of the globe, raising the possibility, albeit remote, of a crew making an emergency landing in a tropical area. This [June 1963 instruction] not only marked the first time that astronauts received tropical survival training, but also the first time all seven Mercury astronauts and nine new astronauts took a training program together.
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