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... can’t remember exactly when I picked up working on Gemini. I know we went to the Cape and supported Gemini I and Gemini II, and I felt like we were on board ... same team. '''Rusnak:''' What sort of tasks were you looking forward to doing on Gemini? '''Aldrich:''' Well, Gemini picked up right where Mercury left off. I mean, we had now our concept ... options and what we could do. '''Rusnak:''' The most harrowing moment on Gemini was probably the Gemini VIII mission. '''Aldrich:''' Gemini VIII mission was a big challenge. It was not too harrowing, because ...

... training for Gemini 7 prepared you a lot for the mission on Gemini 10? Were there similarities in your training? '''Collins:''' Of course, a Gemini spacecraft is a Gemini spacecraft is a Gemini spacecraft. There ... the Gemini spacecraft, by learning those on Gemini 7, all that knowledge transferred over to Gemini 10. On the other hand, there were very specific parts of Gemini 10 that were quite different from Gemini ...

... manned flight in the Gemini series-were rendezvous and docking of GEMINI VIII spacecraft with Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV and performance of extravehicular activity (Eva) for one orbit. Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV ... by 139 mi., Armstrong received intermittent lock-on between GEMINI VIII radar and Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV ’s companion transponder. After sighting Gemini Agena Target Vehicle GATV at 66-mi. range at ...

... continuity and the communication relationship, the day-to-day relationship they had experienced on the Gemini Program, but everybody understood that NASA was new and NASA had their own basic way ... program that had really developed the integrity and honesty among the people. '''Harvey:''' The Gemini Program? '''Barton:''' Gemini. '''Harvey:''' Did you maintain a relationship with many of the people that you worked ...

... our first missions, we finally got ready, and our first Agena mission was the Gemini VI spacecraft, Gemini VI mission. It was the first Agena spacecraft. And this little beauty, we launched ... they had used a thruster that was oversized. They'd used one of the Gemini thrusters, and the Gemini weighed a whole lot more than this thing did. If you've got ... haven't thought about, and get up and bite you every time. Well, back to Gemini, Gemini VIII, when Armstrong came over the next site, the bird was steady and rolling along ...

... in a capacity in the Gemini Program Office. Actually, I didn't work in the Gemini Program Office. They had formed teams, and they generally had a Gemini Program Office person in charge ... forth between the Houston Petroleum Center and the computers. During the Gemini Program, I also had to work with the Gemini Program Office. That's where we had all our team meetings ... one of the early meetings that we had down at the Cape on Gemini, we had been developing Gemini as a program, and we had some flight operations concepts generated, and we ...

... that area. They were well along with some of the early design for Gemini at that time. The Gemini steering rockets were going to be a fundamentally different type. The small steering ... with McDonnell and Rocketdyne? '''Chaffee:''' Very close. Not so much with McDonnell. They were the Gemini prime contractor. But Rocketdyne was their reaction control system, subsystem, vendor, and they were the ... work is immersed in. '''Ross-Nazzal:''' Do you have any other memories of any Gemini missions, other than Gemini VIII’s, that stand out? '''Chaffee:''' Well, the one where the Agena didn ...

... rocket in orbit came up, so we had the Gemini Centaur, I think it was, Gemini— '''Butler:''' The Agena? '''Hobokan:''' Agena. Yes, the Gemini Agena came up, so we would demonstrate that you ... shield for the CSM Command and Service Module came out of the Gemini heat shield. We made samples of the Gemini heat shield, oh, two and half inches or three inches thick ... . So we developed a whole SR&QA operation via the Gemini Program, and then it was applied to everything else. The Gemini Program was really an interesting program. We did, like on ...

... , mainly—well, maybe Apollo also, but I was going to say mainly in Gemini. But it got started in Gemini that the program offices ran mission planning under a senior individual. They ... all together. '''Woodling:''' Oh, yes. '''Butler:''' Going back to Gemini, you mentioned the Gemini mission simulators and the dynamic crew procedure simulator. The Gemini also was doing a lot to train for EVAs ...

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