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Topic: Photo of the week 542 (March 14, 2015)
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heng44
Member Posts: 3387
From: Netherlands
Registered: Nov 2001
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posted 03-14-2015 02:52 AM
   
 Fifty years ago, the Gemini 4 spacecraft was entering the 14-foot altitude chamber at McDonnell before a simulated high-altitude flight. Gemini 3 was only a week away from launch and preparations for the next flight were already in full swing. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-15-2015 02:38 PM
Who were the crewmen for that upcoming mission? |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 03-15-2015 03:00 PM
Gemini 3 was Gus Grissom and John Young.
Gemini 4 was Jim McDivitt and Ed White. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-16-2015 12:27 PM
Thanks! I guess I meant the crew for the high-altitude simulation, if it was crewed. |
Ken Havekotte
Member Posts: 2915
From: Merritt Island, Florida, Brevard
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 03-16-2015 09:59 PM
For Gemini IV, the spacecraft's altitude chamber test runs were conducted at McDonnell between March 20-25, 1965.The first was an unmanned test of the capsule vehicle. The second, with the prime crew aboard (McDivitt and White), flew a simulated mission. The third test run repeated the 2nd, but with the backup crew of Borman and Lovell aboard. During the fourth run, it put the prime crew through a flight at simulated altitude. The final (fifth) test was the same as the fourth, but with the backup crew again. |
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