Stunning Hi-res pics of Gemeni missions...
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/gemini-s...
Some crackers in there.
(So mods, where will you dump this? Photography, or boats, planes and trains?)
Some crackers in there.
(So mods, where will you dump this? Photography, or boats, planes and trains?)
TheHeretic said:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/01/gemini-s...
Some crackers in there.
(So mods, where will you dump this? Photography, or boats, planes and trains?)
Or, the new Science area we were given today!Some crackers in there.
(So mods, where will you dump this? Photography, or boats, planes and trains?)
Seen most - but not all - of these pictures before. Thanks for finding them.
Gemini was a truly epic programme. What is amazing is that it was in effect a rush programme as NASA realised that the transition between Mercury and Gemini was too great a leap and an interim programme would be required to bridge the technology and capability gap. It was devised in 1962 and made its first manned flight in 1965. Imagine that pace of development today.
Gemini achieved an amazing number of firsts in space -
first use of fuel cells
first spacecraft capable of changing its orbital altitude
first spacecraft capable of changing its orbital plane
first US spacewalks
first US spacecraft to stay in space more than a day
longest manned spaceflight before the advent of the various space station programmes
first spacecraft to carry a programmable computer
first rendesvous with another spacecraft
first docking with another spacecraft
first genuine space emergency (Gemini 8)
There is some great CBS TV footage of the various launches and rendesvous on youtube. I spent a large part of the summer trawling through this old footage.
Gemini was a truly epic programme. What is amazing is that it was in effect a rush programme as NASA realised that the transition between Mercury and Gemini was too great a leap and an interim programme would be required to bridge the technology and capability gap. It was devised in 1962 and made its first manned flight in 1965. Imagine that pace of development today.
Gemini achieved an amazing number of firsts in space -
first use of fuel cells
first spacecraft capable of changing its orbital altitude
first spacecraft capable of changing its orbital plane
first US spacewalks
first US spacecraft to stay in space more than a day
longest manned spaceflight before the advent of the various space station programmes
first spacecraft to carry a programmable computer
first rendesvous with another spacecraft
first docking with another spacecraft
first genuine space emergency (Gemini 8)
There is some great CBS TV footage of the various launches and rendesvous on youtube. I spent a large part of the summer trawling through this old footage.
jingars said:
Eric Mc said:
first US spacecraft to stay in space more than a day
That honour goes to Gordo Cooper on Mercury 9; 1 day, 10 hours, 20 minutes.The Mercury cpasule was falling apart for the last few hours of Cooper's mission so stretching a flight to 34 hours was really pushing it beyond its limits.
I think you'll find that was Alexei Leonov in Voshkod 2 - and it nearly killed him.
I take my hat off to the crew of Gemini 7, who spent 14 days couped up in the extremely cramped Gemini capsule. Jim Lovell still maintains it was the toughest thing he has ever done - and that says a lot considering he flew around the moon in Apollo 8 and was Commander of Apollo 13.
I take my hat off to the crew of Gemini 7, who spent 14 days couped up in the extremely cramped Gemini capsule. Jim Lovell still maintains it was the toughest thing he has ever done - and that says a lot considering he flew around the moon in Apollo 8 and was Commander of Apollo 13.
Eric Mc said:
I take my hat off to the crew of Gemini 7, who spent 14 days couped up in the extremely cramped Gemini capsule. Jim Lovell still maintains it was the toughest thing he has ever done - and that says a lot considering he flew around the moon in Apollo 8 and was Commander of Apollo 13.
having seen a Gemini capsule up close it amazes me that they spent that long in one!I think he may have also lost his toothbrush on that mission too.
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