21 April 1965: Officials said the stunt went beyond minor clowning and could have disrupted scientific research
Molly Brown,the Gemini spacecraft which carried Grissom and Young three times round the soil final month, not only landed 160 miles short of its intended impact area, and it also landed its astronauts in the centre of a strange controversy.
The short landing,in the Atlantic, was due to inaccurate information gathered during wind tunnel tests, or will be corrected in the next four-day flight expected in June.
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Source: theguardian.com