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Gemini B AM
Part of MOL

Gemini B

Gemini B
Gemini B cross-section
Credit: McDonnell Douglas

American manned spacecraft module. Cancelled 1969. Adapter module for Gemini B, the engines serving as both abort motors during ascent to orbit and for retrofire on return to earth. Abort/deorbit propulsion.

AKA: Adapter Module. Status: Cancelled 1969. Gross mass: 1,868 kg (4,118 lb). Unfuelled mass: 1,718 kg (3,787 lb). Specific impulse: 255 s. Height: 1.56 m (5.11 ft). Diameter: 2.32 m (7.61 ft).

Changes to the Gemini adapter module included:

Orbital Storage: 40 days. Spacecraft delta v: 140 m/s (450 ft/sec).



Family: Manned spacecraft module, Space station orbit. People: McDonnell. Country: USA. Spacecraft: MOL. Launch Vehicles: Titan. Propellants: Solid. Agency: USAF.

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