Gemini 8 - We've Got Serious Problems Here (Full Mission 03)
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- Gemini 8 - We've Got Serious Problems Here (Full Mission 03)
The third of four intended videos which will cover the entire flight of Gemini 8.
The crew perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit, which is followed, not long afterwards, with the near catastrophic incident. Unknown to the crew, a thruster on Gemini becomes stuck open and the docked spacecraft begin to yaw. Thinking the issue is with the Agena, the crew seperate from it, but the yaw turns into a spin as the thruster continues to spew fuel out the side of the spacecraft. As the crew regains contact with CSQ the drama unfolds.....
In the first video I added captions to the video. I have decided, due to time constraints, not to do this for subsequent videos. I hope that the viewing is not spoiled because of this. I have added in the communication from the crew at the incident point.
The mission transcript is available here www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/missi...
Orbiter Space Simulator is used where actual video is not available. The orbital inclinations and orbital burns are simulated. I do not know if these are the way the actual events were. The in between ground station HD video is from ISS.
Photos, audio and video courtesy of NASA - Наука та технологія
Neil Armstrong always sounds like he's driving a bus down the highway.. so calm.
Indeed he was an excellent bus driver. Thats they choose him.
Neil Armstrong was the original perfect Iceman during his bad time in the Korean War. Check it out. He is a hero in that alone.
Sounds like it's more cooper who talks on the radio most of the time, cooper was doing the "communicate" while Armstrong was doing the "aviate" thing.
@@RivetGardenerYes he was. It always seemed unfair to me that he was described as a civilian pilot, when he was a decorated fighter pilot in the Korean War. And after that a military test pilot.
“Any mission that you can safely return your astronauts is a success.” - Gene Kranz
“If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.” - Chuck Yeager
Good old Gene K. He's a Proper Superfast, Sublick Superstar!👍💯👌😜
"Gene Kranz is the greatest man in the history of the universe." - Gene Kranz
I'm blown away that no one on the ground seems even to know what the problem is before Armstrong fixes it on his own initiative, while spinning on his head at 60 RPM. Nerves of f**king steel.
Probably why he was first choice for the first Moon landing.
Wrong.
Situations like this were simulated so many times that his reactions are basically automatic, they practice so much that the astronaut is turned into a machine that reacts in a way that removes personality so his nerves never enter into it.
I very much doubt this particular problem was simulated. It was Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott's experience as two of the top test pilots in the country that got them out of this - they certainly were not just machines.
The problem occurred when they were out of contact and when they did have contact it was very poor - partly because of the spinning capsule. That's why they were on their own - and, yes, nerves of steel!!
As long as this video is, it was acutally worth it to sit and listen to the whole exchange from the Gemini spin till the end of the video - just seeing how everyone communicates and works together. These guys had balls of steel.
For those who don't know, the various controllers are stationed in different areas around the world. They even had ships in the ocean so they could talk to the craft as it passed over. Mission Control could talk to and listen to the conversations at the remote sites, but the remote sites were the only ones who could directly talk to the craft when it was out of range of Mission Control.
"Did you say negative ? "
"Affirmative, that's a negative. "
:D
"We have clearance, Clarence."
"Roger, Roger. What's our vector, Victor?"
@@Peter_S_ i thought the exacte same thing! lolol
Affirmative. Did you say affirmative negative?
@@Peter_S_ Vector one six Victor, what's your position Poseidon?
Lol yea that's why you don't guess at what they said, you just say "say again your last". These guys kinda suck at talking on the radio compared to the military :/
What I love about this is there's lots of people repeating the same instructions over and over, verifying, pointing out mistakes and making corrections, and no one at any point goes on the defensive or gets bent out of shape.
I think Neil Armstrong reveals some frustration when he asks (two times) for flight to make 'double sure' they're sending the right 'SBC load.' This is between 10:40 and 11:10 on the video. I think he is actually _quite_ annoyed, but he reveals this only by a slight change in his usually cheerful demeanor.
It takes a special kinda individual to be both the best in the world, and humble enough to remove their ego from the situation entirely. Especially considering the life or death nature of the situation. Cool as ice in one of the most stressful environments possible.
Yup, being an engineer and working with very smart colleagues every day, this is pretty much the way we approach things. When there's a serious problem, everyone is smart enough to recognize that it's a complete waste of energy to let emotions get in the way, or start playing the blame game. Instead everyone focuses on working the problem first and foremost.
The movie 'First Man' also brilliantly depicts the general temperament and working habits of engineers in a very accurate way imo.
Read the book "Failure is Not An Option" by Gene Kranz. It's goes all into the culture that was created at NASA so the controllers could be as pro as it gets.
Both Neil Armstrong and Dave Scott did get to go to the Moon...
While Neil became the first man to walk there, Dave became the first man to drive on the Moon with the Lunar Roving Vehicle on Apollo 15.
This is one of at least four times that Armstrong's skill save his life and/or the mission.
Gemini 8, Apollo 11 radar-free landing, the Bedstead, and, I’m guessing, the X-15?
I can't even imagine how terrifying that must have been. Balls of steel.
MrMichaelXX 4 of em
First among the many thanks I have for putting up these great videos is: for NOT dubbing in any distracting background music like so many other unlistenable documentary presentations on UA-cam.
Glad you like them!
"You spin me right round baby right round like a record baby right round round round ! "
Not the time
Bahahahahaha
Now is the time
Dammit dude 😂
David Scott:
YOU SPIN MY HEAD RIGHT ROUND RIGHT ROUND IF YOU UNDOCK WE WILL GO ROUND ROUND!
Fantastic guys. I feel sick when inadequate people on here try to dis them.
I remember as a kid seeing the Gemini/Agena drifting overhead. In my binoculars I could see the two craft. Priceless memory.
Holy Moly definitely priceless moment, thank you for sharing.
How fast was it going in your binoculars? Or was it just still in the sky?
Holy Moly don’t forget, according to deniers you never saw it. NASA was paid to reprogram your memories so you remember seeing something you didn’t 😂
Austin Powers It would’ve appeared to be moving as fast as a commercial airliner at cruising altitude. Things in LEO take a couple minutes to cross the sky
I can only imagine how fascinating that would be besides the problem , one time when it was night and pitch black I saw a bright flash in the sky
Amazing to hear the recordings from NASA archive.
Glad you enjoyed it
24:06
Deke Slayton: "Paul...........Paul!"
*Signals him to kill the live feed*
There’s a reason why Neil was picked as commander of Apolllo 11. It’s this mission. Gemini 8.
wrong. it was the crash of the earth moon lander when he ejected.
It was 1960's men that brought themselves back.
The fact that any of these men came back with 1960's tech always blows my mind.
Neil Armstrong greatest civilian pilot of all time.
Absolutely, I so admire that man. May his memory be for a blessing.
He flew 78 fast jet combat missions in the Korean War (all decklandings both day and night). And after the war, he transferred to become a military test pilot. He was no civilian pilot, he was a highly decorated Navy fast jet combat pilot and a courageous test pilot, known for his exceptional piloting skills and his calm demeanor in the most demanding of situations.
After this flight, switches were added to remaining Gemini spacecraft so that you could turn off each individual thruster.
That lesson learned carried over to all future spacecraft (apollo, shuttle, etc.) as well.
How many times did Neil Armstrong save the U.S. space program?
Jim Lovell saved Apollo by getting Gemini 12 to have a successful spacewalk with Buzz Aldrin. Gene Cernan was so exhausted during his he had fogged up his visor and couldn't see.
Armstrong had a couple of close calls in his career. He survived an X-15 crash in 1962, the LLRV crash in 1968 and that near disaster on the moon landing with little more than an empty tank in 1969.
Don’t forget Mike Collins. He casually gave a felt tip pen to Buzz Aldrin before he and Neil Armstrong made the first moon landing. Aldrin used it to arm the LM ascent engine after the switch had broken off. The ground engineers probably would’ve figured a work around (like they did on the Apollo 12 LM’s landing radar and abort system), but what if they could not have? Many others probably had some part in keeping the golden age of American manned space exploration moving ahead.
@@jimwatson842 Also, the infamous 1201/1202 alarms during landing. One set of code added as an afterthought years earlier told the computer to reboot and gave priority to mission-critical processes and started ignoring low-priority, non-critical processes as the computer got overtaxed again. It was due to the rendezvous radar still running, despite having lost contact with the CSM. Everyone had assumed if there was no radar contact, it wouldn't be sending data to the computer, but apparently it was flooding it with constant "No radar contact" updates that resulted in that overload.
@@jamesfrank3213 the huge Baltimore swimming pool for simulations that Buzz Aldrin was working on and his engineering input with handhelds and foot holds as well as breaks to prevent exhaustion were so crucial to the success of Apollo. They wouldn’t have been able to green light Apollo without successful EVA/spacewalks. Your right, Gemini 12 needed to be a big success to go ahead and move forward. Using that pool with replicas for mission simulation was ingenious
PRIMUM! IN before the conspiraturds. I was in the US Navy 1963-1973, and assure you that every mission was give the maximum possible coverage on military bases, even if the commercial TV Stations ignored some or all of it. I wallowed in nostalgia reviewing this video :)
+Harry Andruschak glad you liked it Harry and thanks for your comments - Regards LM5
+Harry Andruschak Nearly all NASA conspiracy hypotheses are born entirely out of ignorance, and lack of information by those who simply refuse to look for it, or deliberately ignore it. The amount of transparency in NASA is uncanny for a government organization. So much so, that for people to deliberately ignore it all to such a degree is offensive to the very concept of intelligence.
When it boils down to it, we have forgotten how to dream. Every flight is an adventure, and a very Human one at that, on the level of any American expedition you can name. I'd put any Gemini mission up against Lewis & Clark any day.
A lot of these people I've met that "believe" in these theories seem to be not that bright, and have an ax to grind against society because they are not part of it, and therefore are rebelling against it to piss off people that they perceive to be better than they are. (like a teenager would).
Thank you for your comment, and thank you for your service.
What amazes me is how sophisticated Gemini was. World wide communication was really good and the uplinking and downlinking of data is almost as fast and easy as Shuttle (but they did need some crew interaction). I did notice that Flight Director talked a little too much, or more importantly, talked at the wrong times. Capcom went a long way in keeping his cool and managing to keep Flight up to speed as much as he could. All in all, Gemini was a truly capable machine to be crammed into such a small space. This was a very interesting (and informative) video.
Strike Raid
I never could understand the ejection seats on the Gemini, instead of using an escape tower. I thought the astronauts bodies would have been busted up, but I guess they wouldn’t have been.
@@pajasa62 I don't think they would have survived an explosion on the pad if they ejected with the toxic fuel used
This is why I wish Gemini got more recognition. Mercury and Apollo had the glamour of being the biggest "firsts" but most of the maturation of space exploration in terms of technology and understanding happened under Gemini, with it's own many noteworthy "firsts".
Skip to 23:00 for the roll and Armstrong's audio
Thanks a bunch...
Saved me so much time, thanx!
@@bt10ant did you just thank yourself
Terima Kasih, Thank You, Spasyiba.
Neil Armstrong...one cool customer...
According to Walt Cunningham, Armstrong made a major screwup by not following the procedures for the issue. Walt says they had the issue covered off for this very instance.
Yea, but Flight Director Gene Kranz, who supervised Gemini VIII’s re-entry, felt otherwise. He thought that it was a failure of the ground controllers in having few contingency procedures to cover the docked phase of the mission, and other astronauts like Frank Borman and Wally Schirra both praised Armstrong and Scott's handling of the problem.
Many think he bought his ticket for Apollo 11 on this flight.
@@TimothyOBrien1958 Armstrong was one hell of a pilot that's why.
@@GoodOlTimesOnlyGayer he's full of shit. It was the first docking, they failed to consider the fact that the Gemini Agena combination as an integrated spacecraft. They reacted as they were trained. The training was wrong, and it almost killed them.
I like how the crew had the foresight to turn the 16mm movie camera back on when they noticed they were tumbling.
who's here after watching first man??
Me
me, the movie showed it's spinning very fast
Me
Me
Me, as well lol
23:12 the animations are incredible here. I can't imagine rolling for that long.
Try watching this section of the first episode of From the Earth to the Moon.....they have a realistic showing of the speed of the roll. It was so much worse than this looks.
@@matthewbennett3911 It was about 1 repetition per second. They were seconds from passing out which meant death.
cottagechskitty it was spinning for a very long time but spinning a lot a lot a lot a lot faster I mean like yeah
Thats not a roll though, its a yaw. Its incorrect.
To those who feel the need to criticize, this was 50 years ago. Relax.
FYI, the CAPCOM sending up the "if the Agena goes wild" info is none other than Jim Lovell.
Wonder if that Lovell guy ever ran into some issues in space...
@@RickinBaltimore He could handle it.
@@RickinBaltimore He didn't but Tom Hanks did...
Rick K. Search Apollo 13, but during the time of this mission I doubt that he seen anything too serious.
@@yeshuanazarene357 Apollo 8 as well. He made the wrong input and the guidance thought they were still on the launch pad it woke an angry Frank Borman “what the hell did you do”! Lol… this would help them in later missions like many other mistakes
We had the PCM test ground station system from McDonnell which was scrapped to our lab @ University of Missouri, Rolla. We had two of the 'tapes' they were using, which were probably 7 track Ampex drives like ours (which came with our system). We could play the tape data channels thru a PCM de-commutator, which decoded the 1220 channel or so bit data stream into all the different instruments we had. We had the 20 racks of channel displays, which showed the digital value of each channel, an analog meter, and had an output so one could connect various instruments.
They had an onboard tape of the data which they were playing back since the problem happened in time when the ground connect didn't exist.
The other part of our test system was a full set of microwave systems to connect to a test Gemini CM in the factory. In all the test system was about 40 7 foot high standard NASA retma 19 inch racks.
This is all Chinese to me but I love it!
I can never watch this or read about it without thinking of how paralyzed with panic I would have been. I'm sure Neil and Dave felt plenty of fear (how could you not?), but they held it together, and Neil... definition of a steely-eyed missile man! Saving his ship and his pilot under those circumstances baffles a mere mortal like me. I wonder if this is really how he earned his command of Apollo 11? He proved he's the guy you want at the controls when things go south.
Being military aviators and test pilots they had nevers of steel.
Also with Neil being a Naval aviator in the 1950s and landing early jets on aircraft carriers was no easy feat. It was done purely by pilot ability back then, even getting catapulted takeoffs were an impressive feat. Today of course carrier takeoffs and landings sre essentially all automated for jets so that pure pilot skill factor is no longer there. (E-2s and C-2s i believe still have to "fly the ball" while, F-18s and F-35s have auto throttle)
Once again, fantastic job, LM5! (I use the word "fantastic," but truthfully, there is no superlative worthy of describing the brilliance of your work.)
I've probably told you this before, but your videos are *clearly* labors of love. Not for one moment do I-or anyone else who views these, I'm certain-take your unimaginably long, arduous efforts for granted, my friend.
Keep the videos coming when you can!
Fantastic presentation. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
I wonder how close they were to passing out during the violent roll? Those guys were some cool cucumbers.
I've been looking for a good Gemini 8 video for ages. Thanks sir.
Just like my first docking in KSP.
23:12 “We have serious problems here!”
“Houston we’ve had a problem” I know, different mission
Amazing !Although sitting in a tumbling washing machine they stayed calm and cool as if having a beer and a conversation at a bar counter ,it must be because of the right stuff!
The rotation was such that the two pilots approached the limit of unconsciousness. Finally, Armstrong helped the re-entry motors to stop the rotation, which precipitated the return to Earth.
The mission had aborted but the coolness with which Armstrong got out of the situation (considered the most serious until Apollo 13 flight in 1970
Thank you so much for these historic videos. They are so incredibly interesting!
Glad you like them! Thanks Marilyn
Dear God. Armstrong was cool as a cucumber during what had to be an utterly disorienting roll. I have heard him reffered to as "The greatest American who ever lived". I have seen nothing to disprove this observation.
I've watched the Apollo 11 and 13 recently and the difference between comms and procedures is stunning. With TDRS today I imagine comms are continuous in earth orbit.
The "it didnt happen" nuts are just trolls. Just mark them as spam and move on. Pretty soon they will be talking to themselves (doing things "by themselves" is probably a familar thing)
We have 'it didn't happen' nuts because our government and news organizations have lied to us so often. If you don't remember any of the lies from the past, stay connected. You will see explicit lies and more often deceptions designed to coordinate public opinion our engineer opinion.
They're not trolls, they're complete dipshits, like our friend John Hood here.
Zoomer30 Agreed
doing things by themselves. lol
@@jshood3353 What is your engineer's opinion ?
"Roger, Big Brother is watching" "Say again?" Changes subject..
What's interesting too, you can see in the medical report that during the incident, Armstrong heart rate rises quickly and "high" while Scott's remains essentially the same.
Wow! Incredible detail. Thank you so much for posting.
According to the Wiki article on the subject, Armstrong used up 75 percent of the OAMS propellant just getting the spaceship under control. There were two sets of oxidiser and propellant tanks (hypergolic). Both of them were opened up at this point. After that only the final RCS solenoid valves were holding the reactants in. (it sounds as if there is a one way only solenoid valve at each reactant tank). The RCS can yaw and pitch the capsule but not decelerate it . Orbital velocity is around 7000 m/s within a few hundred km of the earth. The untouched Retrofire system had 100kg propellant mass available . This would give a delta V to the capsule of -101m/s . What Armstrong had was about 30 percent off OAMS ( Orbital attitude and manoevring ) left and about 25percent of Reaction control system fuel left . This latter was required to set the capsule up in attitude for re-entry after retrograde burn from the solid rockets. The capsule is set up to spin on its major axis while re-entering to spread heat loading over the heat shield.
data from a braeunig dot us internet site - unverified.
Total mass: 1,982 kg
Gemini Total mass: 1,982 kg for crew capsule including 33 kg of attitude control propellant.
RETRO MODULE
Length: 0.9 m
Maximum diameter: 2.6 m
Total mass: 591 kg
(structure 160 kg; reaction control system 200 kg; maneuvering system 131 kg)
Propellant mass: 100 kg
Reaction control system
thrusters: 6 x 400 N + 2 x 400 N deceleration thrusters
propellant: NTO/MMH
specific impulse: 273 s
total impulse: see equipment module
Retro-rockets
thrust: 4 x 11.12 kN
propellant: solid
specific impulse: 255 s Note Veq for propellant is about 2500 m/s based on this.
delta v: 101 m/s
Neil was the coolist pilot of all time. His veins must have flowed with cool courage!
This video is brilliant! Great work, you obviously love what you do, it really shows! Thanks for sharing.
Biggest fear must have been them hitting the Agena during that roll
That and the possibility of blacking out
No..the greatest fear was G-LOC and over-g of the spaceframe. G-Loc means you blackout. Enough Gs can kill you. Over-G the spacecraft and you can damage something including airtightness or she can even rip apart entirely. Lots of ways to die in space.
Flight director is John Hodge. British born, which explains the awesome accent :)
Thanks... I was just asking who the hell "Flight" was.
Loved his "are you aware of the problems with the memory compaaaar'?"
I'm curious about the cardinal directions in this circumstance, they talk about a roll but in your simulation it's yawing or pitching, as I would imagine the forward direction to be along the thrust path.
Ok thanks! Thought he was Aussie!😲
One of the many engineers that came from the cancelled Avro Arrow project
Gemini 8 was the other Apollo 13, but the crisis was resolved in minutes, so quickly that the TV networks did not report live the dangerous spin. Otherwise, "We've Got Some Serious Problems Here," would have become "Houston, We've Had a Problem."
Yet another wonderful series from LM-5!
+Ferrariman601 thanks for the kudos Ferrari...appreciated - regards Lm5
Wonderful reconstitution and video editing. You did an amazing job, congratulations! Thank you very much.
Thanks for your comments Net... regards LM5
These are wonderful. Thank you so much!
this is truly amazing
Another great episode!!! Thanks LM5
+CTaylor7013 you are welcome CT...thanks for the comment...Regards LM5
First Man made this too intense, as expected for Hollywood movies.
maulCS I know right
Well this audio doesn't put you inside the actual spacecraft when it was happening. So obviously it doesn't sound or look like it did in the movies.
Thx LEM! Another awesome vid/audio! Keep em coming :)
+John Murphy welcome John! regards LM5
Beautiful work. Thanks 👍🏼
Thank you too!
That is frightening!
This is amazing. Thanks for the upload!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those were incredibly exciting times.
I'd like to put in a request for Gemini 12. (The mission that saw Buzz Aldrin save the manned space flight program.) Mission was so huge and almost no one knows about it.
+coldplayplayer15 I shall keep it in mind - regards LM5
coldplayplayer15 Buzz made space walks look easier. No offense to the others, but they were amateurs. Of course the entire space program was "armature" when it came to space walks.
Well, sure, but remember Ed White wasn't an amateur, he was considered to be the fittest of the Gemini astronauts, but when he did the first one, nobody knew what to expect or how to do it much less how to simulate it properly. Buzz's idea of throwing the capsule into a pool and then going in after it with his space suit on, was certainly the breakthrough in simulating a zero gravity environment so that astronauts could accurately train for it. So, while some may not see it, Gemini 12 wasn't what saved it, it was him doing the pool work prior to it that saved it, his flight was just a validation of that work in the pool.
Aldrin saving the manned space program? Hardly. He gets the credit for successful EVA, but in truth, he had the luxury of learning from all previous EVAs. It was a group effort.
It was NOT Aldrin's idea to throw a capsule into a pool. It was done as early as 1964 by Scott Carpenter.
These are really awesome series! I am enjoying them a lot. Would like to see more of 11!
11 is aimed for a release date of 16th July 2019...
Flight has a great accent on this one.
There sure are lots of guys named Roger! lol
Any idea what kind of G forces they were experiencing during the most severe roll rate?
Amazing how far we have come with our orbital communications. Flight must have had a bear of a time switching from Hawaii to RKV for contact then having to verify how much of the command the Gemini actually received. All that double checking was normal whereas today we only complain when the video feed cuts out!
22:30 holy shit the movie got it perfectly
25:47 "Roger. What about the Agena?" The tone of that "stand-by" response says everything. The director was probably concerned about them hitting it but . . . .
It was almost like "... [f. the Agena]..."
22:10
"Ahh Neil we're in a bank..............We're not doing it, it's not us."
That was scary seeing the Gemini 8 spinning out of control.
Excelente, tu trabajo es excelente, me gustó muchísimo, me sentí dentro de la Gemini 8… Gracias!!!
+Ricardo Hector Grumberg thanks Ricardo...regards LM5
Si.
Neil Armstrong became the commander of Apollo 11 bc he had more experience with flying rockets than anyone else in the astronaut's office
Add to that he had displayed incredible piloting skills, and a calm and controlled demeanor in the most demanding of situations.
CSQ
=Call sign of NASA tracking ship Coastal Sentry Quebec which according to the authors of On the Shoulders of Titans: A History of Project Gemini ( Appendix F ) was "originally a C1-M-AVI class freighter, considerably modified as tracking ship."
S/C=Spacecraft
They didn't have a backup cut-off for the roll thrusters, which were able to fail open. They didn't have reliable full-time communications. It was possible to lose communications during an emergency. They didn't have nearly enough telemetry. Their procedures were under-developed. It was all brand new. No one knew what they were doing, but they managed. And Neil Armstrong's brilliant piloting and nerves of steel saved the day. This was not the first time that he would do that, nor would it be the last. Did you hear the details that he provided in his briefing? He remembered everything that happened. Many other astronauts -- and controllers -- performed just as brilliantly, given the tools that they had available. I got to watch it live as a kid. It was a privilege, and it was when I learned to be proud of my country.
I just received my Oculus Rift VR headset and now I'm in awe of virtual reality. When I first put it on I immediately thought of these videos and how they would look in the VR universe. (No pun intended) I did see one afterwards that shows a 15 minute Mercury takeoff and orbit but it doesn't show the whole mission. It's called, "Go For Launch: Mercury". This game lets you sit inside the capsule and also look around outside it. I see that your videos are drawn up in what looks like a CAD type software so I would think it would already be in 3D. I know it won't be easy to do this but I wonder how hard it would be to convert at least one mission into a cool VR "game" like the one I mentioned earlier. You would be doing such a huge favor to us history buffs that love to see up close and feel part of Mankind's awesome endeavors like going to the Moon. I would definitely buy such a program.
I wonder if there is a way....
I'm so glad that you got my comment. I thought it might get lost amongst all the excellent videos that you put together. Anyway, I think you could really be successful creating, or converting, your collection of Apollo missions into Virtual reality. If you do try to create a VR mission will you keep me, or others whom are interested, up to date? It would be very interesting to see how it may work. I will definitely be the first to purchase one of your VR missions. Good Luck.
@@robcart9447 check out a game called re-entry on steam. It just added preliminary vr support for the gemini missions
@@robcart9447 He didn't create this software, it's called Orbiter. Someone who is into VR and knows the graphics APIs that are used to render it might be able to adapt it to use one of the VR APIs.
Amazing audio!
The only mistake on this 3D representation it’s that when Neil use RCS direct to control the spacecraft, that’s on the thrusters located in front of the windows, close to the parachutes. They where supposed to be used on reentry so that’s why they need to cancel the mission and proceed to reentry by the mission rules.
Whoa, that really happened. Crazy.
I love these videos! They really bring this to life. What software did you use to create this simulation?
Its the orbiter space simulator with a Gemini add on
Who is this Roger? He is not on the passenger list!
Lol
As a little kid, I really used to think there were lots of astronauts named Roger. So I thought it was super exciting to go with my Dad to buy a used 1964 station wagon from a man named Roger! Just like the astronauts, Roger was "all-American" looking guy, complete with military crew cut. I mean, how cool was it to ride around in a car that had been driven by an astronaut?
Roger. Huh? Give me a vector, Victor. Roger. Huh? I need clearance, Clarence. Roger. Huh?
Thanks again awesome job!😁
You are welcome Tom - regards LM5
Neil did all the computations on paper to find Agena...Then he saved the day by starting the re-entry cycle to stop the spinning from the faulty retro rocket engine..
It sounds almost like they're loading compiled commands and are visually inspecting/verifying the binaries in the console "VM read out indicates all 1s", "we're showing the first six lines are all 0s", "we did get a command end, but we still have 6 lines that are all 0s". Especially when they started talking about lines 36 being "beyond the command load" and weren't worried about those 0s. I'm sure it's more nuanced than that though, and only someone with knowledge of these systems would really know.
"Flight" is John Hodge-Blue Flight.
The animation from 23:00 onwards is incorrect. It is showing a yaw manouver, but the capsule was actually experiencing a roll (rotation on the axis from the rear of the craft forwards through the nose)
20:24
"Roger. Big Brother is watching."
"Say again?"
lol
incredible
I hope that TV coverage of the Agena launch, the Gemini 8 launch, the rendezvous, the emergency in orbit and the splashdown can be found and posted to You Tube.
23:11 is what you came here for.
Cool under pressure.
Awesome!!
+Keno Keaton thanks keno - Regards LM5
One smooth dude!
Last thing you wanna do, in space & in a violent roll, is look out the window at Earth. If you dont stay calm and focus on your instruments you could pass out or hyperventilate. Bad news....
THanks for this but must ask if there is a way to wash out the annoying background pulsing sound
55 years ago today March 16, 1966--- March 16,2021. I am wondering where all of the time went. I am even wondering where the time will go. There is no longer public interest in this. There are unmanned probes landing on Mars and studying the other planets, but manned spaceflight has little interest.
And this was both astronauts first space flight 😅
Wow ! beautiful realistic animations. But what was going on there >11:11< on the Agena ?
They were practicing the docking maneuvers for preparation for docking and undocking the lunar excursion module?
yes.. for the Apollo program it was obvious that they needed a separated craft to land and take off from the moon and another orbital one to do the travel and return.. its staging but extended.. that way it wasnt need to bring down all the fuel and stuff they wouldnt need on the surface but that would need to be launched to moon orbit again requiring fuel.. all that required at least 1 undocking -> orbital rendezvous -< docking (in the end it ended being one extra docking for the LEM extraction) so it was considered mandatori to practice rendezvous in orbit and docking/undocking .. Other stuff was also tested with the Gemini program like long duration missions expending as much time in orbit as the full moon voyage would ..or spacewalks (wich werent required but could be needed for Apollo and in fact they were indeed performed in Apollo 15, 16 and 17 to retrieve film from the SM)
This was the first time actually docking anything, which they knew would be a requirement later around the moon. I wouldn't say it was practice for the lunar mission exactly, they are using two different type vehicles with different capabilities.