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    The US manned space flight program of the 1960s and 1970s consisted of three phases: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Mercury's purpose was to put a person into orbital flight, with Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom's suborbital flights in 1961 and John Glenn orbiting Earth in 1962. The Gemini flights from 1965-1966 conducted training for longer space flights, testing orbital docking and the effects of long-term weightlessness. Apollo then pursued the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon between 1968-1972, with missions to circumnavigate and land on the lunar surface.

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    The US manned space flight program of the 1960s and 1970s consisted of three phases: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Mercury's purpose was to put a person into orbital flight, with Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom's suborbital flights in 1961 and John Glenn orbiting Earth in 1962. The Gemini flights from 1965-1966 conducted training for longer space flights, testing orbital docking and the effects of long-term weightlessness. Apollo then pursued the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon between 1968-1972, with missions to circumnavigate and land on the lunar surface.

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    The US manned space flight program of the 1960s and 1970s consisted of three phases: Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Mercury's purpose was to put a person into orbital flight, with Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom's suborbital flights in 1961 and John Glenn orbiting Earth in 1962. The Gemini flights from 1965-1966 conducted training for longer space flights, testing orbital docking and the effects of long-term weightlessness. Apollo then pursued the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon between 1968-1972, with missions to circumnavigate and land on the lunar surface.

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    The U.S. manned space flight program of the 1960s and 1970s consisted of three distinc phases:
    Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Each of these distinct phases of the space flight program
    served a very different purpose. mne Mercury was the first phase of the manned space flight program. Its
    purpose was to get a 5) person into orbital flight. The tiny Mercury capsule carried only a single astronaut.
    Alan Shepard
    and Virgil Grissom piloted the first two Mercury flights, which were suborbital flights, in 1961. John Glenn,
    in the next Mercury flight, orbited the Earth in 1962. Three more Mercury flights followed.
    The next phase of the manned space flight program was Gemini. The purpose of the ten crewed
    Gemini flights in 1965 and 1966 was to conduct training tests necessary for longer space flights.
    10) Gemini, for example, carried out training in orbital clocking techniques and tests of the
    effects of
    long-term weightlessness on astronauts. Unlike Mercury capsules, which held only one astronaut.
    the Gemini capsules were designed to carry two astronauts. The name Gemini was taken from the
    name of the constellation, which means "twins." The Apollo flights followed the Gemini flights
    with the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon.
    1 spacecraft consisted of three modules. The command module carried three astronauts to he Moon the
    service module housed the propulsion and environmental systems, and the
    he command module to land two astronauts on the Moon. There lunar module separated from the
    command module to land two astronaute on renteen total Apollo flights, of which the first six carried no
    crew. The seventh thre.
    68-1969) circumnavigated the Moon without landing and then returned to Earth. Apollo flights
    (1968-1969) circumnavigated the M.
    nello flights (1969-1972) were intended to land on the Moon. All of them did 20) The next seven Apollo flights
    (1969-1972) were

    12 which developed serious problems and had to abort the intended landing but still except
    Apollo 13, which developed serious problem managed to return safely to Earth.
    39. The subject of this passage is
    (A) lunar landings (B) the Gemini flights (C) phases of the U.S. space flight
    program (D) space exploration through the decades
    42. The word "crewed" in line 8 is closest in
    meaning to (A) endangered (B) manned (C) organized (D) tested
    40. According to the passage, the Mercury
    flights (A) were all suborbital flights (B) did not include any orbital flights () were all orbital flights
    43. The purpose of the Gemini flights was
    (A) to prepare for longer space flights (B) to attempt suborbital flights (C) to circumnau

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