" PROJECT GEMINI MISSION REVIEW 1965 " NASA FILM GEMINI II, III, IV, V, VII MISSIONS 68344

Video from the channel PeriscopeFilm about Project Gemini, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 20:06. Language: English. Video type: Archive footage.

NASA film reviewing 1965 for Project Gemini mission by mission: the uncrewed suborbital flight Gemini 2, the first crewed flight Gemini 3, the spacewalk of Gemini 4, the long-duration mission Gemini 5, and the orbital rendezvous between Gemini 6 and Gemini 7. It combines launches, crew preparation, sea recoveries, and footage shot with cameras aboard the spacecraft.

1965 footage filmed at Launch Complex 19 at Cape Kennedy, in the control bunker, in the splashdown areas, and in orbit. The onboard material includes the view of Gemini 2's reentry with the parachutes deploying, Edward White's spacewalk over the Pacific and the California coast, the tracking from Gemini 7 of the launch of a Polaris A3 missile from the submarine USS Benjamin Franklin, and the approach between Gemini 6 and Gemini 7, filmed at six frames per second.

According to the narration, Gemini 2 traveled more than 2,100 miles over the Atlantic Missile Range to qualify the Titan launch vehicle and the spacecraft before the crewed flights. Virgil Grissom and John Young flew Gemini 3 for four and a half hours and were the first to change the orbit of a spacecraft in flight. In Gemini 4, James McDivitt and Edward White spent four days in orbit; White was outside for more than 20 minutes aided by a hand-held oxygen gun, and mission control passed for the first time to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad completed 120 revolutions in 190 hours and 55 minutes on Gemini 5, with the first in-flight tests of the fuel cells and the rendezvous radar. After the first attempt at Gemini 6 was cancelled due to the failure of the target vehicle, Frank Borman and James Lovell launched on Gemini 7 for 14 days in orbit, and eight days later Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford achieved the first rendezvous in space with Gemini 6, holding formation for about five and a half hours and closing to within barely a foot.