Manned Orbital Development System

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Manned Orbital Development System was created by the Air Force Space System Division (SSD) in June 1962. It was to begin working on plans to use Gemini hardware as the first step in a new US Air Force man-in-space program called MODS (Manned Orbital Development System), a type of military space station that used Gemini spacecraft as ferry vehicles. The term Blue Gemini first showed up in August 1962 as part of a more specific proposal to fly six Gemini missions with Air Force pilots in a preliminary orientation and training phase of MODS. MODS was effectively superseded when the Manned Orbital Laboratory was announced in December 1963.

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• NASA History Office on Blue Gemini

v • d • e Gemini program Main articles Project Gemini Missions Gemini 1 · Gemini 2 · Gemini 3 · Gemini 4 · Gemini 5 · Gemini 7 · Gemini 6A · Gemini 8 · Gemini 9A · Gemini 10 · Gemini 11 · Gemini 12 Components Gemini spacecraft · Orbit attitude and maneuvering system · Titan rocket · Agena target vehicle Launch sites Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 19 · Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 14 Developments Blue Gemini & Manned Orbital Development System  · Manned Orbital Laboratory & Gemini B  · Big Gemini