Project Gemini - Missions 3-12 - Part 1

A rough edit in chronological order of the Gemini missions from III-XII. Contains clips from suit-up, ingress, launch, on-boards and recovery. There are a few audio clips from crew members.

Soundtrack by Diatonis

Gus Grissom & John Young GT3, Jim McDivitt & Ed White GT4, Pete Conrad & Gordo Cooper GT5, Frank Borman & Jim Lovell GT7, Wally Schirra & Tom Stafford GT6, Neil Armstrong & Dave Scott GT8, Tom Stafford & Gene Cernan GT9, John Young & Mike Collins GT10, Pete Conrad & Richard Gordon GT11, Jim Lovell & "Buzz" Aldrin GT12.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Project Gemini
• NASA
• Gus Grissom
• John Young
• Jim McDivitt
• Ed White
• Pete Conrad
• Gordo Cooper
• Frank Borman
• Jim Lovell
• Wally Schirra
• Tom Stafford
• Neil Armstrong
• Dave Scott
• Gene Cernan
• Mike Collins
• Richard Gordon
• Buzz Aldrin

[AroundSun]

What song is this by the way??

[stanante]

@AroundSun Two tracks. Both on the album 'The Convolving Universe' by Diatonis. First one is very aptly named 'Lunar Dream' and the second is 'Perihelion'. Great sounds. A lot of his stuff is sublime. Enjoy

[granddad2002]

I like the 'swivel' of the helmets. Modern space helmet don't do that? Seems like everything we do in Space today is more like a 'Zero-G' seminar? Manned spaceflight needs to be about going someone other than swing around Earth orbit? The ISS is a good engineering project, but with doing mission other than lab work and back to Earth... it should be like a flight hangar for a small cargo terminal. Should have been building on Manned Space exploring, not 'go-to-Moom' and quit?

[stanante]

@granddad2002 The amount of money pumped into developing space technologies in the US in the 50's & 60's is unfathomable. It was the reason why moon landings could be realised. As much as i'd love to see more pure exploratory manned flights, that amount of funding required is unlikely to be ever repeated.

[SR71U2ube]

U-2S helmets have swivel action,Infact the suits worn by "Recce" pilots are descendants of the old badass retro astronaut era suits.Still very different from Nasa's space specific suits. U-2 suits are very modernized today but their basic design hasnt changed much. Alot of people dont know how much the U-2 and A-12 programs helped indirectly with Nasa's first years.Test pilots at Groom Lake and Edwards (for the X-15 projec) where wearing pressure suits long before Gemini.

[Nautilus1972]

@stanante Not as long as the Federal Reserve Act is in place anyway. Criminals. End the Fed!

[AroundSun]

@stanante THANKS...good sync

[AroundSun]

@stanante Going to Mars or investing in NASA I would have rathered than the Iraq War.

[AroundSun]

awesome stuff

[19thSFGA]

@stanante couldnt agree more ! It will be a long time before the goverment will be able to throw the massive amounts of tax dollars like they did then.Also our gov. piggy backed our nuclear weapons programs on the back of nasa.It was perfect timing we needed to build up a reliable nuclear delivery system and nasa was a great way to hide it.Now there is no way to justify the cost.

[OsanBlackCat5RS]

Launched into space by an SM-68 baby! I love the Titan II..

[DrTWG]

@stanante You couldn't be more right. In fact one word sums up the vast technological leap in the late 50's and then the 60's - WAR. We will never see that kind of effort because of man's desire to explore.We forget just how bad the cold war was in those days , what was it that LBJ said? - "I will not go to sleep (?bed) by the light of a communist moon"