Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

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GEMINI IX ASTRONAUTS
LT. COLONEL THOMAS STAFFORD
LT. COMMANDER EUGENE CERNAN
ASTRONAUTS OFFICE
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA | DO NOT TYPE MESSAGE BEYOND THIS LINE
TALK ABOUT AN ACE IN THE HOLE! CONGRATULATIONS TO GEMINI IX ON CARRYING OUT A MOST DIFFICULT AND TRYING MISSION. YOUR PATIENCE AND COURAGE WERE REWARDED. WE ARE PLEASED THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO CARRY OUT MOST OF THE EXPERIMENTS AND LOOK FORWARD EAGERLY TO THE RESULTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING COOPERATION AND EFFORT IN THIS REGARD. A SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE PILOT FROM DR. JOCELYN GILL, A FELLOW PROVISOITE WHO PRECEDED HIM BY A FEW YEARS, WARM CONGRATULATIONS ON THE LONG SPACE WALK--IT WAS EXPECTED OF COURSE THAT PROVISO COULD ACCOMPLISH IT. |
WILLIS B. FOSTER, DIRECTOR MANNED FLIGHT EXPERIMENTS OFFICE |
NAME AND TITLE OF ORIGINATOR (Type) | ORIGINATOR'S TEL. NO. | DATE AND TIME PREPARED
Dr Jocelyn R. Gill | x20611 | 6/6/66 1:03 p.m.
Manned Flight Experiments Office |  | SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
I certify that this message is official business, is not personal, and is in the interest of the Government.
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