Classic NASA Film - Gemini 8

NASA film archive footage from on-board cameras during Gemini 8's docking and emergency undock with the Agena Target Vehicle.

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[TonyN737]

Between this, and the LeM sim ejection and walking on the lunar surface ... Neil Armstrong is one badass futhamukka!

[1BustedMyth]

Love the Gemini Capsule!

This stuff looks easy, wait till you try it on the Simulator

[malamagr]

If they'd stayed docked they could have used the Agena to get back under control, right? If they'd realized it was the Gemini's problem.

Agree w/ the comments re. Armstrong, he'd proved he could handle emergencies and this came in handy also during the landing although he and Buzz actually caused the emergencies that day by making a mistake.

But surely NASA was always going to give the landing and first step on the moon to a civilian astronaut, which left them with no other choice but Neil.

[garydal]

Actually, the LLTV accident where Armstrong ejected barely 100 ft from the ground was at Ellington Field in Houston about 6 miles from what was then The Manned Spacecraft Center, now JSC.

[GGE47]

Neil Armstrong had another close call practicing his landing on the moon for Apoolo 11.It was some contraption they rigged up and it sputtered and popped and took a nosedive to the ground.Armstrong ejected one second before that thing hit the ground and exploded.The ejectione seat had small rockets itself and shot straight up and away from the explosion.He parachuted back down and was safe.This happenned at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.They gave up on that thing and went to simulators..

[TheForkedtoungue]

Special! The music was perfect, made my heat jump, as the ASTRONAUTS surely did on this mission. Who was that playing?

[amor987654321]

man, twixes have got like these different caramely taste now. ne1 notice that?

[FalconKPD]

@clayzee001 Yeah, that was the problem, they almost blacked out because of too much force.

[John27346]

@clayzee001 Not from the astronauts' seats

[USAmerican100]

@TonyN737

Don't forget when he was flying the X-15 toward a landing at Edwards AFB it unexpectedly bounced off the atmosphere during re-entry and ended up over Pasadena! The X-15 was just gliding at this point, he was able to get it turned around and glided back to a safe landing at Edwards 40 miles away.

[clayzee001]

would the 360 rotation a second have produced artificial grav?