Gemini 3 First Crewed Flight - Launch, Historical Footage, AI upscale, Narration, NASA, Titan, 1965
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Documentary about the Gemini 3 mission, entirely based on historical narration, extensive mission audio and footage. The full mission is covered, showing training, launch, orbit-by-orbit operation, recovery and results.
Gemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. It was the first U.S. mission in which the crew fired thrusters to change the size and shape of their orbit, a key test of spacecraft maneuverability vital for planned flights to the Moon.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Mission Objectives, Crew and Training
01:42 Titan II Rocket Tests and Simulated Flights
03:46 Final Launch Preparations
04:36 Gemini-Titan 3 Launch
06:50 Liftoff
10:20 Orbit 1
11:27 Orbit 2
12:44 Orbit 3
13:52 Retrofire and Reentry
15:42 Recovery
21:29 Mission Results
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The footage was AI upscaled (Topaz AI) on some segments, besides the usual color correction. Ambient audio was recreated based on historical elements. Sequences are shown in proper mission context as much as possible.
Historical narration (from mission commentary and NASA documentaries and progress reports) is used in an attempt to capture the feeling of the times. Language and attitudes should be seen in that context.
Research, cleanup, editing, and processing by Retro Space HD.
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I remember following this mission as an elementary school kid. Gus Grissom became one of the clear leaders in the astronaut corps and probably would have walked on the moon. John Young DID walk on the moon and also flew every spacecraft except Mercury. Those guys were the real deal. This is an excellent restoration. Thanks for sharing!
I’ve always believed that, had he not been killed in the pad fire, Grissom would have been the first man to walk on the moon.
@@wadewilson524 Perhaps, but Armstrong was a civilian whereas Grissom was military. As a civilian organization, NASA decided to put Armstrong on the ground first, the Col. Aldrin second. In reality, either Armstrong or Grissom would have been a good choice.
@@RevMikeBlack Grissom was the lead Commander on both Gemini Apollo. He was the face of the NASA astronauts at the time, one of the Mercury 7 heroes, and by all accounts one of the brightest people in the program. NASA and the public would have loved nothing more than to have one of the Mercury 7 as the first man on the moon.
The true Ace up Grissom’s sleeve though was his close relationship with both Slayton and Shepard - they had the most influence over crew assignments and would have gone to extremes to have Grissom be the one.
@@RevMikeBlack not what I read, Aldrin was too extrovert, would of boasted too much and milked it more then he has. He still managed to brag and 'claim he was the first', not for nothing he dragged a grudge.
@@wadewilson524 I have wondered about that. Do you think that the incident with Liberty Bell 7 would have been held against him? Though he was ultimately cleared of any wrong doing, I always had the impression that NASA had ill feeling toward him. There are instances of astronauts being sidelined for small infringements over the years and I would have thought that his ship going down under suspicious circumstances would have ruled him out for the first to set foot on the moon.
The Gemini System was Gus Grissoms baby. A lot of this system was developed by Gus and ended up being very,very efficient.
He was an excellent mechanical engineer and it showed. He was
my favorite astronaut and a hero of mine. RIP Gus We miss you!
So John Young was the first to fly a Gemini capsule and a Space Shuttle. Oh and walked on the moon in between. Crazy.
He was the only astronaut to fly Gemini, Apollo and the Shuttle. In fact he did each twice: Gemini 3 and 10, Apollo 10 and 16, STS-1 and 9.
@@jacksons1010 I'm from Russia. On the 30th anniversary of the Gemini 3 flight in 1995, John Young replied to my letter and sent me an autographed photo of himself as a keepsake. He was and will probably remain forever the most successful astronaut in the world, who, as you noticed, flew on various spacecraft. I will add that the first flight of the Space Shuttle STS 1 was made for the first time in the world with people on board at once, which required special courage from him and Robert Crippen. Eternal memory to him.
And Gus was second in Mercury, first in Gemini, and was to be first in Apollo. Had he lived he would have walked on the moon.
@@robvilla622 True, and not only would Grissom have walked on the moon, there’s a fairly high probability he would have been the first. Deke Slayton always claimed he didn’t play favorites with mission assignments, but he sure did make room for Alan Shepard when he returned to flight status. No doubt in my mind he would have favored Grissom over Armstrong.
Young was also first person to orbit moon alone Apollo 10
The early space program was just so exciting! (the current is also exciting as well). Everybody looked so lean, trim, and clean back in those days - very professional. Their attitude and effort really paid off in a big and spectacular way. Great footage!
Same here. Much better times..
I was a Titan II ICBM Electronics Tech back in the day.....the CST (combined systems test) was quite an elaborate ordeal...basically you hooked up this multibox system that replaced all the squibs, pitch rockets, etc with indicating fuses, meters and a recording oscillograph. Getting it all set up took multiple machines many hours. Once installed, the launch crew would turn keys and the missile would complete it's 35 minute flight on the ground. The recording oscillograph would record the MCU, IMU, Rate Gyro and Autopilot running it's complete program. This proved the system was good to put back on line after major maintenance. They rarely passed the first time. Multiple 16 hour days were likely.....
Gemini was one of NASA's greatest achievements. What a great program!
Gemini was actually a mini space station with all of the experiments and manuvours they pterformed.
Perhaps it was the frequency of launches or the mission objectives to pave the way for Apollo, not to mention the really cool design of the capsule that captures my imagination so much, but the Gemini program seems such an amazing period in early space exploration. I always felt it was unfairly forgotten, if not its importance often diminished in the minds of the broader public with Apollo taking all the attention and glory.
So it's great to see videos such as these to refresh our memories, provide information - much often not well known and to show just how spectacular and important it was.
Public!!? Ignorant pukes!!!
It's so true that Gemini was extremely important. The Moon landings never could have happened without Gemini paving the way. Rendezvous and docking were perfected by Gemini, as well as longer-term spaceflights, and EVAs.
@@deltatango5765 And they just looked so cool, I can't stop saying that! 🙂
@@tomstamford6837 Yes they did, very cool!
Great stuff Thanks! a reminder this stuff should be available for purchase and shown in schools and never forgotten by future generations!
Some of us know just how difficult it is to gather and restore all of this sort of information correctly- you made a super effort in doing exactly that. NICE WORK! I just subscribed.
Excellent work as usual! I've long had a soft spot in my heart for Gemini. Surely the sportiest of all spacecraft! Gotta love Gus and John wandering around on deck in bathrobes. 😂
I remember this flight. It was exciting and my favorite mission since it was a new spacecraft.
Gemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. It was the first U.S. mission in which the crew fired thrusters to change the size and shape of their orbit, a key test of spacecraft maneuverability vital for planned flights to the Moon. It was also the final crewed flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were moved to a new control center at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.
Gus Grissom was responsible for making the Gemini capsule fly like an airplane. This is why the appreciative astronauts who flew Gemini later called it the Gusmobile.
That, and also the fact that it was "Gus sized" (Gus being the shortest of the astronauts). 🙂
It’s sad that the Gemini missions are now all but forgotten. People remember Alan Shepherd and John Glenn in Mercury and then nothing until Apollo. Gemini accomplished so much in such a short time. The astronauts, particularly on the longer Gemini flights, endured ridiculous hardship crammed into that sardine can, yet did what needed to be done to prepare for Apollo to go to the moon.
I appreciate the Gemini Control guy's detailed commentary.
Thanks for uploading this! It was a fascinating watch.
This was the first launch I saw live on TV, on my fifth birthday!
Love these! You do awesome work! I’m pretty impressed by that 1965 tracking camera catching staging so well! Love those 1960’s narrators…
Yeah, those 50's and 60's narrators DID have a distinct voice.
@@davidharrison3711 "Intrepiddd"
3:13 Oh wow, some of those AI-upscaling artefacts are downright freaky.
Thanks. I saw that and clicked off immediately. What trash.
Gemini afforded the astronauts the ability to control the craft during descent through the atmosphere increasing the accuracy of landing location. The method of “flying” the craft through the upper atmosphere was truly ingenious.
Gus and John, two of the premier test pilots and astronauts of the period. Both are under appreciated.
John Young did it all! Flew Gemini, Apollo, walked on the moon, first space shuttle pilot, this man is my hero
@@bigal1863 Yep, an astronaut's astronaut. I also loved his dry sense of humor.
@@captainyossarian388 Bob Crippen the pilot of the first shuttle, had a heart rate during launch of about 130bpm, while youngs never got above 90. Young stated “Yeah, well mine was too old to go any faster.” LOL What a pro.
anyone who can do what these guys did cannot be overlooked!
@@bigal1863 If I was Crippen I would have tackled and wrestled him!🤪😃🤓
I recently sat down at the Gemini Engineering mockup in Miyazaki, Japan, and marveled at how narrow it was.
Gemini had one-and-a-half times the habitable interior volume as Mercury, and two times the number of inhabitants.
The capacities per person in the capsule were similar to those of the Soyuz TMA.
But Gemini did not have modules for work and rest.
I was in 6th grade when this happened. I also remember the Mercury program, when our class in school would go to the auditorium to watch the coverage. At least Gus didn't lose the capsule on this flight. 🙂
This was also the first space flight that food was provided...various freeze-dried concoctions were provided, but John Young smuggled a corned beef sandwich. When the audio logs were reviewed NASA found out and then congress and things blew up. It came close to being Young and Grissom's last flight. But then the public found out and thought it was so cool and brought NASA so much good publicity that it disappeared. Grissom died in the apollo I ground test and Young walked on the moon and became the commander of the first Space Shuttle. John Young is from Orlando and has a Science Center and one of the biggest roads in Orlando named after him (I grew up in Cocoa Beach where my Dad was an Engineer at The Cape for GE Aerospace and I am a retired A.E. from Lockheed Martin here in Central Florida.
I just love anything related to project Gemini! Just amazing such detailed documentary footage was made.
Incredible how quick the staging was. The first stage literally began falling immediately after its propellant was used.
Fire in the hole staging... second stage engine lights while the first stage is still burning, soon as it lights the explosive bolts separate the stages and first stage engines shut down. Sporty!
Same method the Soviets used on their R-7 and Proton and N-1... why they had the open "V" truss structure between stages, to let the rocket exhaust out the sides as the upper stage engines fired up.
@@lukestrawwalker Very different from the Saturn V, as the engines ignited after staging.
@@gasaholic47 Yes Saturn V used a totally different staging system. First stage engines shut down, then the explosive bolts holding the stages together at the upper Y-ring of the lower stage fired, Simultaneously 8 retrorockets under the outer F-1 conical fairing fired, blowing off the fairings and applying backward thrust to the coasting lower stage. At almost the same time, 4 (was originally 8 but only four were found to be needed so 4 were deleted on further flights) prograde separation solid rockets in the interstage ring fired to impart acceleration to the second stage, settling the propellants in the bottom of the tanks and propellant lines for second stage engine startup, which occurred shortly thereafter. Once the second stage engines were fired up, the explosive bolts on the lower Y-ring of the second stage fired, and the interstage ring dropped away with the spent stage separation rockets.
When the second staging event took place, the J-2's on the second stage were shut down, the explosive bolts at the top of the second stage interstage conical structure fired to free the third stage, and four retrorockets would fire to slow down the second stage as the third stage simultaneously fired its 2 stage separation solid rockets to settle the propellants in the third stage for ignition (ullage rockets). This separated the stages to avoid re-contact and ensure the third stage J-2 engine was free and clear of the conical interstage that remained connected to the top Y-ring of the second stage. Then the third stage single J-2 engine would fire up as the ullage solid rockets burned out.
This was well developed technology by the time of Saturn V, but for the much earlier Titan which got its start as a nuclear missile, the first serially staged one at that, it was decided to use the much simpler and more reliable "fire in the hole" staging concept-- since the upper stage ignites while the first stage is still burning, it's under steady acceleration and there's no need for retrorockets on the first stage or ullage rockets on the second stage to ensure the propellants are settled and the turbopumps are starting with fuel at the inlets, for reliable upper stage engine ignition Plus it simplies staging as all you need to do is ignite the upper stage and shut down the first stage engines just after second stage ignition, and fire explosive bolts to free the upper stage to separate under its own thrust. That's why the Soviets used fire in hole staging almost all the time.
Several days earlier, the soviets walked in space when Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space.
Leonov's desperate struggle to reenter his capsule was maybe the best demonstration that the Soviets were behind in the space race but risked cosmonaut's lives for propaganda "firsts." Voskhod-1 was another, carrying three cosmonauts into orbit inside a capsule designed for two, with space suits omitted for several reasons. The Soviets' space program was secretive, the United States' plans were published in large 4 color magazines like "Life" and shown live on national broadcast TV. Ironically, uncharacteristically, in an attempt to feint the Soviets, Ed White's spacewalk was not announced beforehand. (Account from the excellent NASA web publication _"On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini"_ (search for the title, you won't be disappointed.))
He's lucky that he made it back inside the capsule!
This is a fantastic restoration. Many thanks!
Great coverage, thanks for uploading!
I love this video ( Gemini 3 ) I have viewed Gemini 5 video and I loved it as well I hope All 12 missions will be covered in this vido format . Thank you.!!.
Many childhood memories form this reportage.
Loved the launch footage thanks for putting this together
Any praise from LM5 is high praise!
I love these videos
Excellent HD images and video 👏👍
Just to be clear, Grissom didn't "blow the hatch" on Liberty Bell 7. Static electricity from the helicopter's rotors is the most likely cause of the premature detonation. A few missions later, once the Sigma 7 capsule was secured on the deck, Wally Schirra got back in, had the hatch sealed, and manually hit the eject. The small charge that blew the hatch left a distinct bruise on his forearm which anyone who did it would have, and Grissom did not. The novel (and especially the movie) would have been actionable as slander if he were still alive.
It was static electricity from the helicopter. An antenna needed to be cut off before they could hook it up. The crewman said when he cut the antenna it sparked, and set off the explosive bolts.
Nice to hear Gemini pronounced correctly. NASA had plans for Grissom, going on to be commander of Apollo 1 where he perished. Grissom's duties passed to his backup, Neil Armstrong.
10:44
COOPER: "Ah, roger, how do it look?
GRISSOM: "It look GREAT!"
Calling all those who think the Apollo missions were faked. What about this ? Did the Gemini astronauts really fly these missions? I followed all the news reports at the time so I know what I think - heroic frontier stuff. "We choose to go to the Moon ..... not because it's easy but because it's hard." I wish we still had that vision today.
The Gemini manned orbital missions were spectacular!
/In the Newtonian World
John Young was BADASS
When you look at the astronauts in the couches (about the 40 second mark), you can see why it was nicknamed the Gusmobile. As the shortest astronaut, he was to only one able to easily close the hatch without hitting his helmet.
When it comes to the United States going to the moon, many people overlook the importance of project Gemini. Which prepared the way for Apollo.
Absolute heros!
Now that Amy has chosen to stream super Mario on Twitch, it’s nice someone else post videos with these historical space events.
6:12 Günter Wendt in there for a few frames.
EDIT: There are some discrepancies in the post landing events. The Wiki states, they kept the hatches sealed against the heavy seas. As well as keeping their helmets on to keep from breathing fumes and smoke from the thrusters.
Loved the story and well told. What's with the "video effects" seen throughout the video? Is that, like a watermark?
These guys had balls of steel.
The good old days when your Space-Suit stayed on !
NASA on this mission agreed to the name Molly Brown after rejecting the name Titanic for obvious reasons. Also, Astronaut Walter Schirra purchased Astronaut John Young a corned beef sandwich on rye for the flight.
Navy guys always stick together!
Several years ago, for one of the earlier versions of the game Kerbal Space Program, there was a set of game mods that included historically accurate recreations of things like the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. Including interiors for when you wanted to shift the viewpoint to look at the controls inside the spacecraft.
I mention this because there was - included in the interior cockpit of the Gemini - a corned beef sandwich featured prominently on the center console between the two pilot seats. Heh. 😄
I heard they also considered calling it Jackie Brown
@@sheltongolden4394 As portrayed by another unsinkable Hollywood actress.
At 14:44 on the left you can see what I believe is the last mechanical panel clock used in an American manned, that is, crewed spacecraft. Of course the astronauts did then and still do wear their Omega Speedmasters!
I'm going to have nightmares about those upscaled faces!!
We were exposed and paid attention to that period are truly blessed
The Average person don't realize how really dangerous it was being an astronaut. Training was super intense in the early years of NASA. Manned Aerospace technology has come a long way . But it's still freaking dangerous.
Great restoration. I thouroghly enjoyed this memory from my childhood.
During Gemini III, both Gus Grissom and John Young wore two wrist watches: An Omega Speedmaster 105.003-63 and an Accutron Astronaut GMT pilot watch #MoonwatchUniverse
Looking at John Young entering the spacecraft, can't help but wonder which suit pocket is stowing the infamous corned beef sandwich.
Young got into trouble over that. Grissom said he forgot to put mustard on it.
So professionals
Gus probably kept the hatch closed and secured after what happened the first time he did that.
I always felt this mission should have been planned for more like 30 orbits with the ability to come home earlier if necessary. Far more testing and familiarization could have been done. Apollo 7 was good example of this having the first Apollo mission last ~10 days.
I am really glad Gus had his moment in the sun! Fate dealt him some pretty bad cards, all told.
What this does not tell is WHY they splashed down 60 miles from the target. Seems someone in mission planning neglected to take into account the rotation of the earth when scheduling retro fire. They would have been a couple hundred miles off, but Grissom figured out how to make up some of the distance. he was also very seasick when they recovered the capsule. LOL
“Well, I'll tell you something, it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did all right.”
"Monkeys? You think that a monkey knows that he's sitting on top of a rocket that might blow up? These astronaut boys, they know that, see?"
Mankind remembers only 1 name..
This was Gemini’s first manned mission.
You know, if one is discussing spaceflights before the age of the Space Shuttle days, it really is OK to refer to “manned” spaceflight. After all, the word is defined as “(of an aircraft or spacecraft) having a human crew” and it is still apropos to use when the “human staff crewing a spacecraft” are only men.
I served in US Navy submarines and never had any problem with claustrophobia. There is no way I could have handled putting on a space suit and strap into that tiny space craft for several hours just sitting on the launch pad, much less being blasted into space. Those guys were either very brave or totally insane.
How about cave exploration! It can get VERY tight and claustrophobic!!! Ask Bill Stone! He is the ULTIMATE, PRIMO cave dude!!!👍👍👍😃
Imagine Frank Borman and John Lovell on the Gemini 7 mission sitting in that spacecraft for two weeks. At least they had the Gemini 6 rendezvous mission to break up the monotony.
In 1965 I was 7....
Awwww, where's the turbopump whistle?
Bwoop!
Interesting how the Flight Director continuously asks ‘how are you doing FIDO, Surgeon, Booster etc’ during launch, as I’m sure if anything went wrong he would be the first one they would contact.
He Just checked if the alive;)
6:00 is the wrong control room for Gimini-3, it was first used for Gemini-4; 9:18 is the right one.
No roll program?
My question would be, why did they land so far off target from their planned landing zone?
Is this Gemini Control? I wasn't sure.
Is Gus Grisom saying "how're you guys?
Why does it seem like back in those days, government was far more competent and a lot less corrupt than today?
Because it didn’t get reported back then. I’m not sure what corruption you think is going on today.
@3:08 Why are the faces distorted? Its almost as though different faces were overlayed into the film.
@@martinr1834
Why would only the faces in that segment be distorted? No other faces in this video are distorted like that.
Because your brain distorts things due to low IQ. It's almost like you're....stupid?
A corned beef sandwich was tested on this mission with mixed results.
NA$A
So this archival films are restored by using AI.
Why does the focus go from perfect to looking like it was filmed with a potato.during the recovery stage?
The corn beef sandwich mission.
Isn’t anyone going to mention the sandwiches John brought along?
Ah yes, the infamous corned beef sandwich Young smuggled aboard.
Least didnt play with food like on ISS.
WHY did they pronounce "Gemini" wrong?
_Pronunciation_ is the heading for the first section in the body after the introduction of the Wikipedia article _"Project Gemini"_
Grissom would die in apollo 1 2 yrs later.
That sounds like Ronald Reagan is the narrator
Manned. They were manned flights.
Haha too funny. Btw for those of you who think this is a recent WOKE conspiracy, the term "manned" was dropped from the MSC in Houston way back 50 plus years ago in the early 1970s and the terms "crewed" and "human spaceflight" were adopted by NASA and the commercial space industry more than two decades ago. Yes, that upset me a little too, but stop trying to look for conspiracies when there are none. Life might be more enjoyable that way!
AI upscaling is horrible. Look at 2:46, those control panels are all sorts of weird. And look at 3:10, those faces aren't even human.
The video itself says "manned" space flight, not "crewed." The title to this video is pure, woke revisionist history.
nobody went to the moon , what a joke
You can prove it or it just helps you feeling existing?
Save us from the woke garbage.That was a "manned" flight, not a "crewed" flight.
😂 Btw for those of you who think this is a recent WOKE conspiracy, the term "manned" was dropped from the MSC in Houston way back 50 plus years ago in the early 1970s and the terms "crewed" and "human spaceflight" were adopted by NASA and the commercial space industry more than two decades ago. Yes, that upset me a little too way back when, but stop trying to look for social- political conspiracies when there are none. Life might be more enjoyable that way!
@@deanhirasawa1414 "NASA" and the "commercial space industry" were wrong to drop the term "manned" and were caving to political correctness, which I totally reject. Trump 2024!!
@@stankakol5195: Take your politics elsewhere, son. Maybe you don't understand the engineering, or the science, but instead just come to talk like a "big" man about your personal fears. Stop being a RINO. Real conservatives aren't crybabies. They are doers. They don't beat their chests, they do things in life.
It is pure, woke revisionist history to label Gemini 3 a "crewed" mission. Get real.
How you about spend your life improving the world as opposed to be bitter about things? Stop being a crybaby, son. It's embarrassing to men.
Manned flight sounds better.
Haha I might agree, but here are some facts to consider....
For those of you who think human spaceflight is a recent WOKE conspiracy, the term "manned" was dropped from the MSC in Houston way back 50 plus years ago in the early 1970s and the terms "crewed" and "human spaceflight" were adopted by NASA and the commercial space industry more than two decades ago. Yes, that upset me a little too, but stop trying to look for conspiracies when there are none. Life might be more enjoyable that way!
My trust in Grissom causes me to believe in Gemini, not Apollo con material, what reality is around us is mystery. Our Rulers dont want serfs like us to know important Truths.