Gemini 8 flight from episode 1 of "From The Earth To The Moon"

In honor of the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11. [July 16 - 24, 1969]. Here is an excerpt from episode 1 of the HBO mini-series "From The Earth To The Moon" [The Gemini 8 flight with Astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott., March 16, 1966.]

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• Gemini
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• Scott

[RTSiciliano]

The primary reason Armstrong was made Commander of the first moon landing was the cool under pressure he displayed here.

[toddsmitts]

You cut off the fun last line:

Armstong: Oh, God, give me that bag.

[RayLRiv]

I named my son Scotty after CDR Dave Scott...

[888888username]

@Nighthawke70 That's a load of crap about Neil and the lakebed landing. Read his biography. Yeager tricked Armstrong into getting stuck and then lied about it. Yeager was an overrated asshole who didn't like Armstrong because Neil was smarter and was doing sophisticated work that Chuck could never do. My father sat next to Yeager on a dais at an engineering dinner after the sound barrier flight. Yeager was dull, rude and knew little engineering -- a primitive plane jockey and nothing more.

[olentangy74]

I will never understand why Brett Mccullen was chosen to play

Why Brett Mcullen as chosen to portray David Scott i do not get. Mcullen is a good actor, but looks nothing like Scott. Scott had brown eyes and dark brown hair while Mcullen is sandy blonde and light eyes. Other than that a pretty good job of casting

[hughbreidenbach]

@Nautilus1972 Dare'nt show her that. She fancies Tom Hanks.

[Nautilus1972]

@hughbreidenbach Eh, I'll go with Apollo 13 on that score. Plus any of the many Soviet missions that we'll never hear about.

[Nautilus1972]

@hughbreidenbach Eh, I'll go with Apollo 1 on that score. Plus any of the many Soviet foul-ups that we'll never hear about.

[Nautilus1972]

@Jiraiya1969 Oh wow, check out 'In the shadow of the moon' - he ejected from the LM simulator on earth before it crashed and exploded. Alan Bean I think it was heard about it and didn't believe it because he'd already seen Armstrong that day, and Armstrong hadn't mentioned it. He went over to Armstron's office and said "Neil, did you eject from the LM today?!" .. .Armstrong just replied "Yep."

[Jiraiya1969]

I has no clue thtat Armstrong a) had flown on an earlier flight and b) that he was faced with an earlier life and death situation besides the manual moon landing in '69

[SepradistPhantom]

How come the altitude indicator works in space and in zero g? I would have thought it would just start spinning wildly?

[mrcheeseface2]

" let's just float to china.." wow