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Gemini ‘off the pad abort’ by Dr R Charles on...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:59:14 +0000

Gemini ‘off the pad abort’ by Dr R Charles on Flickr.

A page from ‘Manned Spacecraft’ by Kenneth Gatland.

"The next morning Zapruder passed on CBS News’s lower bid and sold the print rights of the film to..."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:44:27 +0000

“The next morning Zapruder passed on CBS News’s lower bid and sold the print rights of the film to Life magazine for a total of $150,000, equivalent to over $1 million in today’s money. Even then, this sum wasn’t unheard of: just a few years earlier, the magazine had paid $500,000 for the exclusive story of the Gemini astronauts and their wives.”

- Alex Pasternack in The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made at Motherboard, on the Zapruder’s amateur film of the assassination of JFK. Fascinating article- I hadn’t realised the footage has only been seen on US broadcast television once, or that it had such a tumultuous history of rights ownership.

Gemini 6A from Gemini 7, from Remembering Project Gemini at The...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:32:24 +0100

Gemini 6A from Gemini 7, from Remembering Project Gemini at The Atlantic’s In Focus.

Multiple exposures of a Gemini-Titan launch, 1966, posted to...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:21:18 +0100

Multiple exposures of a Gemini-Titan launch, 1966, posted to Flickr by x-ray delta one (via, via)

Buzz Aldrin and Ted Freeman. (via, via) This looks like it was...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 20:42:06 +0000

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.

From a 2010 Gawker article about a book of the...

Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:29:00 +0000

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.

LIFE: Gemini 10 Crew (via)

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:19:00 +0100

LIFE: Gemini 10 Crew (via)