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Topic: July 18-21, 1966: Remembering Gemini 10
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mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-18-2013 02:38 PM
   
Today (July 18, 2013) marks the 47th anniversary of the launch of the Gemini 10 mission with John Young and Mike Collins aboard. It was a complex three-day dual Agena rendezvous and EVA mission with a 35 second late afternoon launch window. |
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Member Posts: 891
From: Vancouver, WA, USA
Registered: Feb 2012
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posted 07-18-2013 03:03 PM
Gemini 10 was really a great mission, the only one to rendezvous with two different Agena target vehicles. Sadly, that lost Hasselblad magazine would have shown the world Mike Collins' spacewalk to the inert Gemini 8 Agena where he recovered a micrometeoroid experiment. |
Pitulfsatten
New Member Posts: 4
From: Oslo Norway
Registered: Jul 2013
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posted 07-19-2013 06:35 AM
The capsule was an exhibit for a ten year period (1986-96) at the Technical Museum in Oslo. They also have Tom Stafford flight suit from Gemini 6. Anyway, I must have visited the museum on dozens of occasions just to stand there and look inside it. Remember the first time I saw it back in 86. I knew it wasn't up to date technology, but I was still a bit surprised to see how little "spacecrafty" it looked. It looked like something made during WWII. Stove switches and mechanical displays and all. Still an impressive machine. It did the job. Furthermore I got even more impressed by the astronauts. I would have turned bonkers by claustrophobia if I had to spend days in there, no matter how much of a kick the view and the thrill of flying in space would be. As I stated - impressive machine, impressive astronauts. |
Tom Rednour
Member Posts: 49
From: Beacon, NY 12508
Registered: Dec 2014
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posted 07-18-2016 10:28 AM
Gemini X time-line graphics in both UTC and EST. 
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