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    The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed from...
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  • of 6 and proceeded to mock-up stage before cancellation. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force's crewed spaceflight...
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    Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program. He has spent more than 6,500 hours in the air as either a pilot or an astronaut. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory...
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  • astronauts to its proposed space stations, the Manned Orbital Development System and later the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL). These stations would have been...
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    November 3, 1966, in a test flight for the United States Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. It was launched on a Titan IIIC rocket on a 33-minute...
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    Sarasota, FL. 7 June 1968. Shayler, David (2000). Disasters and Accidents in Manned Spaceflight. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 84. ISBN 978-1852332259...
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    never intended to be crewed. OPS 0855 was part of a cancelled Manned Orbiting Laboratory project by the United States, while the Genesis stations were...
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    planned American expendable launch system, intended to launch the Manned Orbiting Laboratory and other payloads. Development was cancelled in 1969. The stretched...
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    not launched by a Titan II was the reflight of Gemini 2 for a Manned Orbiting Laboratory test in 1966, which used a Titan IIIC. Gemini 3 used the Mercury...
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    objectives. However, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, which was assigned to the Space Systems Division by General...
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    Cunningham in October 1968. The Gemini suit was looked at for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program (canceled in 1969), and has since been used as the baseline...
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    active-duty military personnel, and all made flights into space. The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was a semi-secret United States Air Force (USAF) space project...
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    Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966. Upon cancellation of the program in 1969, he became a...
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    OPS 0855, also designated OV4-3, was an American boilerplate Manned Orbiting Laboratory spacecraft launched in 1966. It was flown to demonstrate the launch...
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    OV4 satellites were launched as part of a test flight for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), with two satellites conducting a communications experiment...
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  • 2007-07-12 at the Wayback Machine Berger, Carl. "HISTORY OF THE MANNED ORBITING LABORATORY (MOL) PROGRAM" (PDF). NRO. p. 19. Gemini-B Spacecraft Day, Dwayne...
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    his fatal flight. He was also in the United States Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. Robert H. Lawrence Jr., died on December 8, 1967, when...
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    astronaut. Peterson was originally selected for the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program, but, when that was canceled, he became a NASA astronaut...
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    prototype of the Gemini B capsule. On 3 November 1965, the first Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) and Gemini B suborbital test mission was launched. It is...
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    worn by the Gemini 7 crew for 14 days inside the spacecraft. Manned Orbiting Laboratory MH-7 space suits for the canceled MOL program. Apollo Block I...
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  • the advanced ballistic re-entry system (ABRES), the Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL), the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS), and...
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    was originally envisioned to support Titan IIIM rockets and the Manned Orbiting Laboratory, however, these projects were terminated before SLC-6's completion...
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    ISBN 0-671-61101-1. LCCN 89006333. OCLC 19589707. "Air Force to Develop Manned Orbiting Laboratory" (PDF) (Press release). Department of Defense. December 10, 1963...
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    made significant progress in developing the X-20 spaceplane, Manned Orbiting Laboratory, and Blue Gemini, opposition from the Department of Defense prevented...
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    was selected to be an astronaut in the United States Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program. In July 1966, Major Adams came to the North American...
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    black astronaut and a U.S. Air Force officer selected for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program who was killed in a training accident in 1967. During...
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  • KH-7 Gambit KH-8 Gambit 3 KH-9 Hexagon/Big Bird KH-10 Dorian/Manned Orbiting Laboratory KH-11 Crystal/Kennan KH-12 Improved Crystal/Ikon/Advanced Kennan...
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    which was planning to use the Gemini spacecraft as part of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). The AMU was a backpack using hydrogen peroxide as the fuel...
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  • a mathematical method mol, symbol for the SI base mole (unit) Manned Orbiting Laboratory, a project of the United States Air Force's crewed spaceflight...
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    Between 1963 and 1970, Kodak engineers worked on the cancelled Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, designing optical sensors for a crewed reconnaissance...
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