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The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program. The MOL evolved into a space station, for which crews would be launched on 30-day missions, and then return to Earth using a Gemini B spacecraft derived from NASA's Gemini spacecraft. The MOL program was officially announced in December 1963 as a platform to prove the utility of putting people in space for military missions; its use for satellite reconnaissance was a secret black project. Seventeen astronauts were selected for the program, including Major Robert H. Lawrence Jr., the first African-American to be chosen as an astronaut. Budget cuts repeatedly caused postponement of the first operational flight, and improvements in technology reduced the benefits of a crewed space platform over an automated one. A single uncrewed test flight of the Gemini B spacecraft was conducted on 3 November 1966, but the MOL was canceled in June 1969 without any crewed missions being flown. (Full article...)
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Hi Hawkeye7 and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 19:31, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Gog. I trimmed some repetition, and added a bit about the test flight to bring it back above the word minimum. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:09, 2 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks. Looks good. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:15, 2 December 2020 (UTC)