It is no coincidence that, in my artificial and symbolic memory, my father's second wife was named Gemma.
Gemini 12 (officially Gemini XII) was a 1966 manned spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the 10th manned Gemini flight, the 18th manned American flight
Launch: November 11, 1966
Landing: November 15, 1966
By the time of the last Gemini flight, the program still had not demonstrated that an astronaut could work easily and efficiently outside the spacecraft. In preparation for Gemini XII, new, improved restraints were added to the outside of the capsule, and a new technique—underwater training—was introduced, which would become a staple of all future space-walk simulation. Aldrin's two-hour, 20-minute tethered space-walk, during which he photographed star fields, retrieved a micrometeorite collector and did other chores, at last demonstrated the feasibility of extravehicular activity. Two more stand-up EVAs also went smoothly, as did the by now routine rendezvous and docking with an Agena which was done "manually" using the onboard computer and charts when a rendezvous radar failed. The climb to a higher orbit, however, was canceled because of a problem with the Agena booster.
Many documentaries afterward largely credit the spacewalk innovations, including the underwater training, to Aldrin himself.
Gemini 12 was designed to perform rendezvous and docking with the Agena target vehicle, to conduct three Extravehicular Activity (EVA) operations, to conduct a tethered stationkeeping exercise, to perform docked maneuvers using the Agena propulsion system to change orbit, and demonstrate an automatic reentry.
Insignia
The patch's unique orange and black colors are a link to the flight's original scheduled date close to Halloween. The Roman numeral XII is located at the 12 o'clock position on the face of a clock, with the Gemini spacecraft pointing to it like the hour hand of a clock. This represents the position of Gemini 12 as the last flight of the Gemini program. With the Apollo project following this last flight of the Gemini program, the ultimate objective -- the moon -- is symbolized by the crescent on the left.
Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. It is one of the eight Ivy League universities.
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The date 9/10/1948 is the birth date of Thedia Newman, who is my mother in my artificial and symbolic memory.
From 9/17/1946 to 9/10/1948 is: 1 year, 359 days
Shirley Marie Tilghman (born Shirley Marie Caldwell, September 17, 1946) is the president of Princeton University-- and first woman to hold this position.
A leader in the field of molecular biology, Tilghman served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president. She is renowned for her pioneering research in mammalian developmental genetics, her national leadership on behalf of women in science and promoting efforts to make the early careers of young scientists as meaningful and productive as possible.
From 7/16/1963 to 11/11/1966 is: 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, 5 days
From 7/16/1963 to 11/15/1966 is: 3 years, 3 months, 4 weeks, 2 days
Diana was 1959 days old when Gemini 12 launched and 1963 days old when it returned.
From 7/1/1961 to 11/11/1966 is: 1959 days
From 7/1/1961 to 11/15/1966 is: 1963 days
Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances[2]; née Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their two sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth Realms.
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They married at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 July 1981, watched by a global audience of almost one billion.
From 12/7/1998 to 10/11/2001 is: 34 months, 4 days
From 12/7/1998 to 9/11/2001 is: 33 months, 4 days
From 10/12/2000 to 9/11/2001 is: 334 days
Thomas C. Wales (1952–2001) was a federal prosecutor and gun control advocate from Seattle, Washington, who was the victim of an unsolved murder.
Wales was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After his graduation from Milton Academy, he went to Harvard University and then to Hofstra Law School, where he graduated with distinction in 1979 and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.
He worked as a U.S. Attorney in Seattle and specialized on the investigation and prosecution of fraud in banking and business. As a community volunteer, he was active in civic organizations and served as a trustee of the Federal Bar Association. He was president of an anti-gun organization, Washington CeaseFire ([1]). He died on October 12, 2001, aged 49, one day after having been shot by an unknown subject. He was shot while sitting at a computer in his basement. His murderer apparently shot him and fled through Wales' back yard.
There is an open reward of one million U.S. dollars for information leading to the conclusion of the case.
The Seattle Times reported that in 2006 two homes and vehicles belonging to a man whom Wales had prosecuted were searched by the FBI in further investigation of the murder. The owner of the homes and vehicles was a pilot who, with others, Wales had prosecuted in a fraud case. Charges against the pilot and others were dismissed but the corporation they ran was convicted. The pilot later filed a malicious prosecution claim seeking $125,000 in legal fees but the complaint was dismissed.
In his memory, the Thomas C. Wales Foundation ([2]) was set up to support civil commitment.
In the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy, media reports suggest that John McKay may have in part been dismissed from his position as United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington due to conflicts with his superiors at the Department of Justice concerning the investigation of Wales murder. [1] One media story asserts that McKay felt "that senior Justice officials were not paying enough attention to the case".
