2013-02-22
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Gemini ‘off the pad abort’ by Dr R Charles on Flickr.
A page from ‘Manned Spacecraft’ by Kenneth Gatland.
2013-01-15
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2012-04-07
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Gemini 6A from Gemini 7, from Remembering Project Gemini at The Atlantic’s In Focus.
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Multiple exposures of a Gemini-Titan launch, 1966, posted to Flickr by x-ray delta one (via, via)
2012-03-24
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Buzz Aldrin and Ted Freeman. (via, via)
This looks like it was taken in October 1964:
On Friday, October 30, Ted Freeman and Buzz Aldrin were engaged in a little public affairs activity for NASA, demonstrating their spacesuits and a mock-up of the Gemini spacecraft for a few members of the press.
However, Freeman would never fly a Gemini mission:
On October 31, 1964, Theodore Freeman was killed when a goose smashed through the cockpit canopy of his T-38 Talon jet trainer. Flying shards of Plexiglas entered the jet engine intake and caused the engine to flameout. Freeman ejected from the stricken aircraft, but was too close to the ground for his parachute to open properly.
Buzz Aldrin went on to be the second man on the Moon.
(via hammerandcode)
2012-03-10
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From a 2010 Gawker article about a book of the Smithsonian’s spacesuit collection. Left to right:
- A4-H – Universal Hamilton Standard, 1964
- Spd-143-1a Ax1-L Apollo Prototype, ILC Industries, 1963
- GT-7 – Gemini Protective Helmet. 1965
- Mercury – Training, Schirra, 1960
If you’re interested in the history of the spacesuit up to and past the moon missions (and to some extent even if you’re not), I can’t recommend last year’s Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo highly enough. A fascinating, multi-layered read.
