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  Gemini Project
Gemini 1 was to check compatibility between the Gemini spacecraft and the Titan II launch vehicle (see Gemini-Titan II) and no attempt was made to separate the two during their brief flight.
Gemini 4’s goals were to evaluate the spacecraft and crew during a lengthy stay in space, rendezvous with the spent Titan II second stage, carry out the first American spacewalk, and continue testing the Orbital Attitude Maneuvering System (OAMS).
Gemini 4's tanks were only half the size of later models, and the fuel can to be conserved for essential maneuvering later in the mission.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/G/Gemini_Project.html   (3217 words)

  
 Project Gemini Summary
Gemini 11, commanded by Charles "Pete" Conrad, was launched in September 1966 and reached a Gemini altitude record of 1,190 kilometers (738 miles) using the Agena's propulsion system after a first-orbit rendezvous and docking.
The original intention was for Gemini to use a paraglider instead of a parachute, and the crew to be seated upright controlling the forward motion of the craft before its landing.
Gemini is also the name of the third constellation of the Zodiac and its twin stars, Castor and Pollux.
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 Gemini
Truth be told, a Gemini launched atop a Titan 3E or Saturn IVB Centaur could have accomplished a circumlunar flight as early as 1966 and, using earth orbit rendezvous techniques, a landing at least a year before Apollo.
Gemini was to have continued to fly into the 1970's as the return capsule of the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory program.
Gemini Project Office (GPO) reported that it was investigating the use of a parasail and landing rocket system to enable the Gemini spacecraft to make land landings.
www.astronautix.com /project/gemini.htm   (10042 words)

  
 Project Gemini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of the United States of America.
Gemini is also the name of the third constellation of the Zodiac and its twin stars, Castor and Pollux.
Liftoff of Gemini 6A from Pad 19 with astronauts Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford aboard
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 Gemini Project
Project Gemini was a transitional step between the Mercury program and the actual landing a man on the moon.
The Gemini craft was an enlargement of the Mercury capsule and the size were 5.8 m (19 ft)long, 3 m.(10 ft) in diameter, it had to fit two astronauts.
Gemini 7 was used for rendezvous due to Gemini 6 was scrubbed.The primary objective was to determine whether humans could live in space for 14 days.
www.thaitechnics.com /lunar/gemini.html   (422 words)

  
 Spaceflight :Project Gemini
This photograph of the Gemini 7 spacecraft was taken from the hatch window of the Gemini 6 spacecraft during rendezvous and station keeping maneuvers at an altitude of approximately 160 miles on December 15, 1965.
Gemini 1 made 64 orbits and confirmed that the Titan II launch vehicle and the spacecraft were compatible.
The Gemini VI flight, scheduled for launch on October 25, 1965, was scrubbed when the Agena target spacecraft with which the crew had planned to rendezvous and dock exploded during its launch.
www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/gemini/SP18.htm   (1912 words)

  
 Project Gemini History
On March 13, 1965, Gemini III (known as the Molly brown) rocketed into orbit with her crew of Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young and the crew completed a three orbit mission that lasted for 4 hours and 52 minutes.
Gemini V was the first mission to use electric fuel cells and special navigation equipment that would be used for rendezvous.
Primary objective was to rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena target vehicle (GATV-5003) launched on March 16, 1966 from Complex 14 and conduct EVA operations.
students.db.erau.edu /~kalier/projectGemini.html   (1736 words)

  
 Welcome To Spacecraft Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Project Gemini was produced and edited by Mark Gray, written by Andrew Chaikin, and narrated by John Willyard.
Gemini was an experimental program, and was heavily documented both on the ground and in flight.
Gemini X and XI worked to perfect rendezvous, docking and EVA techniques, but the difficulty of working in space did not begin to be solved until Gemini XII, when carefully crafted procedures and actions allowed astronaut Buzz Aldrin to conduct measured work outside the spacecraft.
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 Space history: Gemini Program space history - Gemini missions spaceflight
Project Gemini was a transitional step between the pioneering Mercury Program and the actual landing a man on the moon.
The main objectives of the ten Gemini missions spanning a period of 20 months from 1965 to 1966, were to learn how to "fly" a spacecraft by 1) maneuvering it in orbit and by 2) rendezvousing and docking with other vehicles, which were essential skills for the later Apollo missions.
One of these missions, Gemini VIII, nearly killed the man who would go on to be the first person to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong.
www.thespaceplace.com /history/gemini2.html   (170 words)

  
 LNA - GEMINI
The Gemini Project is an international partnership to build two 8-meter telescopes, one on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and one on Cerro Pachon, Chile.
Detailed studies require the Gemini combination of wavelength coverage, angular resolution and sensitivity to probe matter distributions and distinguish the signatures of microlensing and variable substructures within lensed sources.
Excellent images and superb IR performance will allow Gemini to reach the farthest known galaxies, explore their structures and stellar content, and provide the key to understanding the relation between stellar populations, chemical enrichment history, and the dynamical history of present day galaxies.
www.lna.br /gemini/gemini_e.html   (760 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Project Gemini: A Bold Lead Forward (3 Discs): DVD: Spacecraft Films-Project Gemini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Gemini programm was the one who attracted my interest in manned spaceflight for my life.
For instance the onboard comentary for the Gemini XI by Pete Conrad describing the EVA is repeated during the splashdown and recovery segment.
Some of it (the Gemini IV section, for instance) is synched to reflect exactly what the press would have viewed on the projection screens in the briefings while the astronauts commented on the images.
www.amazon.ca /Project-Gemini-Bold-Forward-Discs/dp/B00009XYYC   (1569 words)

  
 Digital Carvers Guild Project Gemini
Project Gemini is a collection of tools to assist symmetrical modeling.
Gemini works with the assumption you are doing symmetrical modeling, but that any vertices within the Margin of Error are really meant to be at zero.
Project Gemini supports an evaluation mode which allows you to try out Project Gemini before purchasing it.
www.digitalcarversguild.com /plugin.php?ProductId=10   (918 words)

  
 By Gemini to the Moon!
The actual Gemini project as flown was over a year late to the original optimistic plan.
The Gemini would have 521 kg of mass deleted, half of it by removing the solid fuel retrograde rockets used to initiate re-entry (the liquid fuel Orbital Manoeuvring System would be reengineered to increase its reliability).
Gemini Lunar Surface Rescue Spacecraft - The unmanned Gemini spacecraft would be piloted by remote control to a landing near a stranded Apollo lunar module.
www.astronautix.com /articles/bygemoon.htm   (2787 words)

  
 The FCT Gemini Project
Gemini will not even have to be plugged in to run now...
Gemini is currently only slightly behind schedule to run 1000 SETI work units in 30 days...
Gemini has gained some wieght, it is quite a hand full to carry now...
enlightenmentendeavors.com /Gemini.htm   (5127 words)

  
 collectSPACE - resources: review - "Project Gemini: A Bold Leap Forward"
No detail is left unexamined - from construction of the Gemini spacecraft to the selection process for the Titan II booster, from the consideration of a paraglider landing system to rare audio from the press conference announcing the untimely deaths of original Gemini 9 crew members Elliott See and Charlie Bassett.
Equally stunning in the Gemini 4 segment are shots of McDivitt and White inside their cramped cockpit.
Another highlight is the Gemini 11 press conference featuring Charles "Pete" Conrad and Richard Gordon, who describe some good-natured bickering while trying to get their spacecraft oriented correctly.
www.collectspace.com /resources/reviews/dvd/project_gemini.html   (658 words)

  
 Sandcastle V.I. - Spaceflight Directory - Project Gemini
Project Gemini, with its 2-man capsule, allowed the United States to develop the techniques needed to do productive work in space and to link together two spacecraft.
During the period of the mid-1960s, Gemini gave the United States a big lead over the Soviet Union in the race to the Moon.
Beginning with the meeting in orbit of Geminis 6 and 7 in December 1965, the Gemini program also proved that rendezvousing and docking of spacecraft was a relatively easy task for the trained astronauts.
www.sandcastlevi.com /space/gemini.htm   (316 words)

  
 Digital Carvers Guild Project Gemini
Project Gemini is a collection of tools to assist symmetrical modeling.
Gemini works with the assumption you are doing symmetrical modeling, but that any vertices within the Margin of Error are really meant to be at zero.
Project Gemini supports an evaluation mode which allows you to try out Project Gemini before purchasing it.
digitalcarversguild.com /plugin.php?ProductId=10   (918 words)

  
 ZING's Space Project: The Gemini Missions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The main objectives of the Gemini project were to subject two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, which would be required for later trips to the moon or deeper space.
Overall, the Gemini program was a great success for NASA as shown by their flight results.
The project was often referred to as Gemini-Titan for the craft and the launch vehicle, a Titan II rocket, a more powerful rocket than the previously used Redstone.
www.udel.edu /physics/scen103/ZING/gemini.html   (284 words)

  
 Blue Gemini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blue Gemini was a United States Air Force project first proposed in August 1962 for a series of seven flights of Gemini spacecraft to enable the Air Force to gain manned spaceflight experience prior to the launch of the Manned Orbital Development System, or MODS.
Blue Gemini was cancelled in January 1961 by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara after he decided that military experiments could be carried aboard some NASA missions.
Gemini B included a tunnel through its heat shield to enable the astronauts to reach the MOL spacecraft.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_Gemini   (317 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Gemini Observatory Project
The Gemini project "is a multi-national effort to build twin 8.1 meter astronomical telescopes utilizing new technology to produce some of the sharpest views of the universe ever.
An instance of this DTD is required as part of submitting a proposal to the Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project.
To ensure that all the National TAC-recommended proposals are transmitted to Gemini Observatory in a common format, XML (extensible markup language) has been adopted for encoding the proposal information.
xml.coverpages.org /gemini.html   (701 words)

  
 GEMINI User/Project Module
Once the Project is Saved, Highlight a project by moving the mouse over the project you wish to change and click it and then click Select/Edit Project.
GEMINI was designed to work with the data that is provided in the Kansas Geological Survey (KGS) Database.
The GEMINI User can upload data to KGS, which can be selected and placed in their Project.
www.kgs.ku.edu /Gemini/Version_3.5/GeminiUserProjectModule.html   (506 words)

  
 Cover Pages: Gemini Observatory Project
The Gemini project "is a multi-national effort to build twin 8.1 meter astronomical telescopes utilizing new technology to produce some of the sharpest views of the universe ever.
An instance of this DTD is required as part of submitting a proposal to the Gemini 8-m Telescopes Project.
To ensure that all the National TAC-recommended proposals are transmitted to Gemini Observatory in a common format, XML (extensible markup language) has been adopted for encoding the proposal information.
www.oasis-open.org /cover/gemini.html   (701 words)

  
 Project Gemini
The budgets are around the $100 million mark for each, with the Spaceship Earth project having the largest of the three.
Project Gemini now has the backing of Michael Eisner and Paul Pressler, and budgets have been assigned, they are healthy.
The concept of the project is a mass rebranding of Epcot, to inject the excitement back that the park once had.
www.wdwmagic.com /project_gemini.htm   (379 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Project Gemini - A Bold Leap Forward: DVD: Spacecraft Films-Project Gemini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Few people remember Project Gemini today, which is a shame because Gemini really paved the way for the success of the Apollo program in many ways, the three most critical of which were demonstration of rendezvous, demonstration of Extra-Vehicular Activity, and demonstration of long endurance manned missions.
Watching the Gemini capsule station keep and then dock to an Agena in real time or the film of the Gemini instrument panel is like watching grass grow.
Gemini is the red-headed step child of the early space program.
www.amazon.com /Project-Gemini-Bold-Leap-Forward/dp/B00009XYYC   (2279 words)

  
 Welcome to the Public Entrance of the Gemini Observatory
The Gemini Observatory is an international partnership comprised of two 8.1-meter telescopes (each telescope has a main mirror over 26 feet across.) One telescope is located on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, and the other on Chile's Cerro Pachón.
Gemini's ability to penetrate clouds of galactic dust and gas take Gemini to the core of our own galaxy and others - to provide new insights on the violent events that dwell in these areas.
Gemini is an international partnership managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
www.gemini.edu /public/public.html   (408 words)

  
 NASA Project Gemini On-board Computer from 1965
NASA used mainframe computers extensively with Project Mercury, but the capsule had no on-board general purpose computer.
So an on-board computer was contracted for Project Gemini - the bridge between Mercury and Project Apollo.
This incident paralleled the experience with the election prediction by the Univac computer years earlier.
www.cedmagic.com /history/project-gemini-computer.html   (242 words)

  
 Project Gemini   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Its two-man crew gave it its name, Gemini, for the third constellation of the Zodiac and its twin stars, Castor and Pollux.
Gemini involved 12 flights, including two unmanned flight tests of the equipment.
The program was officially designated Gemini on January 3, 1962.
abyss.uoregon.edu /~js/glossary/gemini_program.html   (174 words)

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