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Dick Gordon's Gemini 11 EVA training

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space1 Member Posts: 861 From: Danville, Ohio Registered: Dec 2002	posted 12-16-2019 04:15 PM While cruising the internet I was surprised to find a weightless EVA training photo of Dick Gordon straddling the Gemini nose to attach the tether from the Agena to the Gemini. I had always thought that his move during the mission was an innovation of the moment, not a practiced technique. Pete Conrad had seemed impressed with the move, saying "Ride 'm cowboy!"
heng44 Member Posts: 3413 From: Netherlands Registered: Nov 2001	posted 12-17-2019 11:56 AM Not an answer to your question, but it is not Dick Gordon in the training photo. It is his backup Bill Anders. NASA photo S66-47866 dated August 11, 1966.
space1 Member Posts: 861 From: Danville, Ohio Registered: Dec 2002	posted 12-17-2019 12:17 PM Thank you for correcting me. I did not see an identification in the photo description, so I used deductive extra sensory mistaking.

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