... The second program was called COMET, which is an acronym for Commercial Experiment Transporter. It was an unmanned scaled-down version of Gemini. ...
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... Comet beat us by two weeks to be the first in the world. I say they cheated; they just ran down the runway and lifted off and touched down again. ...
... I did get a chance to do some KC-135 ?vomit comet? work. It was part of the familiarization training, and I cannot now recall just when it was. ...
... I did get a chance to do some KC-135 "vomit comet" work. It was part of the familiarization training, and I cannot now recall just when it was. ...
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... back and see where we've gone in the unmanned side, the probes that we've investigated the outer planets and comets, landed on an asteroid, just what opened up with the Hubble [Space Telescope] and others, the known volume of our environment by millions ...