NASA officials had planned to incorporate the paraglider into early Gemini flights, but problems during testing had led to its first operational test being moved back to later flights. By late March 1963, the paraglider was rescheduled for the tenth Gemini mission, but programme leaders thought that they still might make the seventh Gemini flight, then planned for October 1965. However, North American's contract would run out in April 1963.
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