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Guy DuMont
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From: Aurora IL USA
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posted 04-07-2021 04:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Guy DuMont   Click Here to Email Guy DuMont     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Seeking info on this lucite.

This is a Gemini-shaped lucite capsule made by Radioplane, a division of Northrop. I believe it was an advertising promotion for its proposed Gemini capsule landing system. Also on the lucite is "Paradynamics Space Landing Systems."

Is this pre-Gemini? So this was a different landing system than Mercury? Was this given to NASA personnel?

And I really can't find much info on the Paradynamics Space Landing System. Was this system used in the Gemini program, and is is really rare? Thanks for any help on this.

J.L
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Registered: May 2005

posted 04-07-2021 05:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for J.L   Click Here to Email J.L     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I have one as well. I always assumed it was Mercury related.

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