U.S. AIR FORCE MONTHLY FILM REPORT 1965 CAPE KENNEDY TITAN II, ATLAS PROJECT GEMINI 88924
Video from the channel PeriscopeFilm about Project Gemini, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 18:12. Language: English. Video type: Archive footage.
What it shows
Monthly filmed report by the US Air Force on activity at the Eastern Test Range in January and February 1965. It opens with Project Gemini: the second unmanned flight, on January 19, a suborbital reentry test atop a Titan launched by a team led by Lieutenant Colonel John G. Albert, and the announcement of the first manned flight, a three-orbit mission with Gus Grissom and John Young. This is followed by Polaris A3 missile launches from submarines, a Tiros atop a Thor-Delta, a Blue Scout, a Minuteman II, OSO-2, a Titan IIIA, the Pegasus satellite atop a Saturn, and the Ranger 8 probe atop an Atlas-Agena.
When and where it was filmed
Footage from January and February 1965 at Cape Kennedy, including Complexes 19 and 37 and the Titan III complex, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey's visit on February 23.
Context
The narrator recalls that the first Gemini flight, an orbital one, took place on April 8, 1964, and that the program planned a series of 10 manned launches with flights of up to two weeks. The Titan IIIA of February 11 reignited its upper stage to pass through several orbits, and Ranger 8 sent back more than 7,000 images of the Moon before impact.