The closest near-catastrophe was Gemini 8 when Neil Armstrong had to abort after a stuck-open thruster firing on the spacecraft produced a violent roll, almost causing him and fellow astronaut Dave Scott to black out. They quickly undocked from the unmanned Agena target vehicle and returned to Earth. The other time was the aborted liftoff of Gemini 6. The Titan II rocket shut down after 1 second, leaving Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford sitting on top of a potential bomb. Schirra chose not to eject and the astronauts lifted off successfully a few days later to rendezvous with Gemini 7 already in orbit.
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"Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy."
--Henry A. Kissinger, jewish politician and advisor
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