Re: Why wasn't escape tower used on Gemini?

Pat Flannery wrote:

The layout was envisioned as an enlarged and improved Mercury, and was called "Big Mercury" before being the name Gemini was chosen.

"Mercury Mark II" was the only name that appeared in official documents.

You might be confusing this with "Big Gemini", a variant that was, of
course, proposed but not pursued.

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