NASA GEMINI XI MISSION QUICK LOOK 1966 CHARLES CONRAD RICHARD GORDON AGENA ROCKET XD10174
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This film will take a look at NASA’s Gemini XI which was the ninth manned spaceflight mission of the Gemini program. It opens with the NASA seal (:10) and the target vehicle Agena for the Gemini XI mission (:23). Gemini XI is seen awaiting launch on pad 19 (:57). Members of the crew, Commanding Pilot Charles Conrad and Pilot Richard Gordon, execute maneuvers for the planned rendezvous (1:02) which is to be called an M=1 rendezvous (1:12). The launch window was only two seconds (1:18) and the engines erupt as it takes off in that window (1:44) and it lands in the planned orbit (2:11). The Agena target vehicle began its second revolution (2:15) as the Gemini XI began to catch up (2:20). The radar screen shows where the two are located from one another (2:32) and Commander Conrad notes he has the Agena in view. He executes the terminal phase maneuver over Australia (2:42) and the breaking maneuver over Hawaii (2:50). Conrad comes over the radio at (2:56) and performs the rendezvous (3:21) leaving the Gemini XI ready for docking (3:29). Footage follows from onboard of the actual docking (3:46). All four scheduled dockings are completed (4:19). As the Gemini neared the US on it’s 15th revolution (4:46) the space craft hatch is opened (4:59) and pilot Gordon is seen in space attached by an umbilical line (5:11). He is to remove the tether from the Agena for an exercise that was to take place the following day (6:56). Unfortunately, he is called in due to loss of vision in his right eye (7:12). This removed the exercise of using a power tool in space for the first time from the flight plan (7:23). As they neared the 26th revolution, Conrad is giving the clear to burn the primary propulsion system of the Agena (7:57). The Agena was able to carry the Gemini to a new altitude record which 325 miles higher than any other previous altitude records that had been set (8:35). A picturesque shot follows of the crew looking down upon Earth (8:46) and the men speak of the beauty of the view (9:21). Orbital velocity was decreased as they began the retrograde burn of the Agena PPS (9:45). The 29th revolution saw the hatch opened again for photography (10:12) of terrain and weather (10:19) as well as ultra violet photography experiments (10:26). This ended over Hawaii and set a new world outdoor record (10:38). Next, they prepared to undock (10:49) and the tether is seen being pulled taught afterwards (10:59). This was done to investigate modes of stabilization (11:04) and the space craft is seen taking a slow spin (11:25), then the pair stabilizing together (11:37), and the tether being released (11:57). The tether is then seen floating in space (12:02). The flight director and the mission director, Bill Schneider, are seen on the ground discussing adding a re-rendezvous to the flight plan (12:26). After the crew agrees to the addition, the second rendezvous takes place over Africa (12:50). An onboard computer was to bring the men back down to Earth (13:16) with an automatic retrofire. This happens during the 44th revolution (13:28) and the film turns to the Atlantic Ocean about 35 miles from the planned splash down point (13:36). The Department of Defense had 12 aircraft in the air watching for them (13:42). The prime recovery ship was the USS Guam (14:03) and the parachute from the space craft is spotted. The US Navy’s Sikorsky Sea King helicopter appears swinging low over the ocean to retrieve the men (14:52). Conrad and Gordon are then shot stepping out of the helicopter (15:00). Although there was one out of 11 experiments incomplete, they set many new records (15:27). As the film concludes the Gemini XI is seen one final time (16:01) and it concludes with the NASA seal (16:25).
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I love these old NASA films.
Brings back happy memories of growing up in the 60s following space missions here in Australia
You can tell from his breathing that he was working really hard during that EVA!
Gordon's issues with performing EVAs during this mission necessitated a less-than-exhausting EVA with appropriate equipment and handholds as an important objective for the next mission.
Great video on Gemini 11. I wounder if there are videos available in all ten manned Gemini missions ? THE forgotten space missions, well not by me. Thank you for making it available to view I enjoyed it!.
All of these flights from Mercury to Gemini paved the way for Apollo and landing men on the Moon.
"It was just past midnight on the ground." Methinks that it must have been just past Miller Time somewhere on the ground also. Kinda surprised such a generality made it through editing.
I would be breathing hard too if I was out there.
Artificial gravity :o
This has been a walt disney production
Lol
Stanley Kubrick was great!
Enjoy our sitcom
I was 5 y/o at the time. For the longest time I though "Jeminy" was the proper pronunciation. We lived about 10 mi from NASA MSC (now called JSC). It was not uncommon to glimpse astronauts at local restaurants. My Dad was a Port Of Houston official so we had free run of many areas the public were not allowed. Somehow, he got us into a hangar where NASA engineers were cutting on a capsule with a blow-torch
How did they dock a rocket? There's no precision navigation capabilities. Things were moving around on there own like this was stop motion affects. The ball looked tiny in some shots and enormous in others. Lol! I Love periscope! #NASALIES
Probably gonna regret this, but:
1. Gemini had a RADAR built into the capsule to track the Agena rocket and feed data to the onboard computer to perform the rendezvous. Even without the RADAR, they had optical-and-paper techniques and the ground network to provide burn data where necessary. One in close, docking's not that hard, as long as you take it slow-you're close enough in to easily see which way you drift.
2. As mentioned in plenty of other material, the film cameras used for motion photography run at about 6 frames per second, to save on film used. They're typically played back at 4x speed to match the standard 24fps of everyday film, so it's gonna look choppier than your average film production.
3. Gemini XI didn't stay in the same orbit the entire mission, so the Earth is naturally gonna look to be different sizes. Plus, if they're using different lenses on the camera for certain shots, it's gonna change the relative size of things in the film frame.
Thanks for straightening out a person with a keyboard and zeal, and a little knowledge. They are a dangerous combination.
The crazy stuff they thought of in the 60s eh??? Artificial gravity fields by spinning the space craft and the use of two objects tethered together which kept each other stable in orbit and negated the need for booster firings. Fortunately by the time we were designing the ISS we abandoned such futuristic ideas and went with the brute force of boosters to maintain orbit.
Satellites still use gravity-gradient stabilization where it works out. It only provides attitude stability, and orbital decay still happens. No real way to maintain orbit without the odd thruster fire, but you can get attitude control through reaction wheels, control moment gyros, and other non-propulsive means.
6 downvotes from Communists still salty we beat them to the moon.
No, those were probably from Republicans who think the Earth is flat.
If the gubmint wasn't so compartmentalized, those alien spacecraft the US has could be reverse engineered toot sweet.
Why waste time reinventing the wheel?
While alien technology can have its occasional malfunctions, it would still be a whole lot safer than something as dangerously primitive as rockets.
And... you wouldn't have to worry about physiological degradation due to weightlessness as you would have your own internal gravity on board.
Whada deal.
What a bunch of BS....
One minute the earth is spinning super fast underneath the gemini capsule, but in the next video the earth is completely stationary.