Project Gemini 1965-1966
Video from the channel Ambient Conspiracy about Project Gemini, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:57. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.
Educational piece that reviews Project Gemini between 1965 and 1966 with footage from the missions. It explains its objectives: long-duration flights, extravehicular activity, reentry trajectory control and scientific experiments.
Gemini 3 opened the crewed series on March 23, 1965 with three orbits. Gemini 5 was the first spacecraft powered by fuel cells, and Gemini 7, with Borman and Lovell, spent 14 days in orbit.
It shows the first space rendezvous, in which Gemini 6A closed to within one foot of Gemini 7, and notes that the program achieved nine dockings, most of them on Gemini 11 and 12.