The Museum will be closing early on November 8th for our International Hall of Fame Celebration. Final admission will be at 2:30pm with the Museum closing at 3pm.
This page from Schirra’s planner shows the intense training schedule before his second spaceflight.

Wernher von Braun, designer of most of NASA’s manned space rockets of the 1960s, congratulates Schirra on his Gemini 6 flight, where he performed the first space rendezvous.

Vice President Humphrey also congratulated Schirra on this milestone in space history, in two separate messages.


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