WITH DETAILS ON THE LUNAR LANDING ASSIGNMENT THAT NEVER OCCURRED. FLOWN cloth crew mission emblem from the flight of Gemini XII. Circular, 3 inches in diameter. Featuring a Gemini spacecraft below a large roman numeral "XII" and the crew names. An embroidered crescent moon is symbolic of the next goal, the Apollo Program and a lunar landing. Mounted on a Typed Letter Signed by GORDON COOPER from his personal stationery and displayed with a 10 by 8 inch Gemini XII spacewalk (EVA) color photograph INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "Gemini XII EVA, NOV '66, BUZZ ALDRIN." All mounted on and removable from a 13 by 19 ½ inch black mat board. GORDON COOPER'S signed provenance letter reads: "The crew emblem displayed with this letter was carried into space on the Gemini XII mission during November 11 to 15, 1966. I was back-up commander for the flight crew of James Lovell and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin. Gemini XII docked with an Agena target vehicle and Buzz made a few spacewalks. We finally figured out how to do spacewalks the right way by that time and Buzz performed his assigned tasks beautifully. Gemini XII was a mighty fine ending to a flight program that made ten successful manned space flights. "I then moved over to the lunar landing effort and was assigned as back-up commander for the Apollo 10 mission. That flight demonstrated all the steps needed for the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 except for the final 50,000 feet to the surface. I then expected to have a mission assigned to me for a lunar landing flight but management "politics" and a "tight" alliance between some of the Original Seven guys never allowed that assignment to occur."
WITH DETAILS ON THE LUNAR LANDING ASSIGNMENT THAT NEVER OCCURRED. FLOWN cloth crew mission emblem from the flight of Gemini XII. Circular, 3 inches in diameter. Featuring a Gemini spacecraft below a large roman numeral "XII" and the crew names. An embroidered crescent moon is symbolic of the next goal, the Apollo Program and a lunar landing. Mounted on a Typed Letter Signed by GORDON COOPER from his personal stationery and displayed with a 10 by 8 inch Gemini XII spacewalk (EVA) color photograph INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "Gemini XII EVA, NOV '66, BUZZ ALDRIN." All mounted on and removable from a 13 by 19 ½ inch black mat board. GORDON COOPER'S signed provenance letter reads: "The crew emblem displayed with this letter was carried into space on the Gemini XII mission during November 11 to 15, 1966. I was back-up commander for the flight crew of James Lovell and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin. Gemini XII docked with an Agena target vehicle and Buzz made a few spacewalks. We finally figured out how to do spacewalks the right way by that time and Buzz performed his assigned tasks beautifully. Gemini XII was a mighty fine ending to a flight program that made ten successful manned space flights. "I then moved over to the lunar landing effort and was assigned as back-up commander for the Apollo 10 mission. That flight demonstrated all the steps needed for the first lunar landing by Apollo 11 except for the final 50,000 feet to the surface. I then expected to have a mission assigned to me for a lunar landing flight but management "politics" and a "tight" alliance between some of the Original Seven guys never allowed that assignment to occur."
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