Gemini 10 Full Mission - Audio, Footage, Narration, John Young, Michael Collins, EVA, Agena, Docking

[@cameron1975williams]

By incredible coincidence I am currently listening to Carrying the Fire - By Michael Collins. It's compulsory listening/reading for any Gemini/Apollo era fan. Thank you for making this doc.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I remember reading that and Cunningham's book when I was in Grade 7.

[@dks13827]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver read again and watch FTETTMoon

[@pedrodiaz5540]

Agree

[@andrewsmactips]

The Gemini 10 capsule was on display in an Auckland museum for a few years; it was shrouded in clear plastic panels, but I managed to squeeze my fingers through a gap and touch it. Quite a thrill for an eight year old space junkie. I seem to recall that Aldrin's Gemini space suit was there at the same time.

[@christinawells2024]

You should go to Washington DC, to the aerospace museum, if you haven’t already. The things they have in there is incredible. I was 37 when I went the first time and I was just in aw.

[@seantaggart7382]

Michael Collins Dude is a legend Rest in peace buddy You made history TWICE! Both seeing earth from that high up And being a part of the crew of the first landing

[@naardri]

John Young was the best of them all.

[@micheldelving3684]

Hello, yes the only one to had piloted 4 differents space craft, gemini apollo lm sts, and also the lunar rover... He was also test pilot in gemini and sts!!! Fantastic live 😮

[@Gort58]

Another great video - thanks. 09:50 - Note (in the window at left) the lower umbilical that failed to disconnect from the Titan and was torn loose from the tower.

[@Nghilifa]

I noticed that too!

[@ferrismesser]

snakes on a rocket

[@TastyBusiness]

I got to see Gemini 10 in the Kansas Cosmosphere earlier this year, it's pretty spectacular in person.

[@peterlutz7191]

I remember being glued to the TV or my transistor radio for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions,

[@josephstevens9888]

So cool.... I find the history of the early space program just so darn fascinating! Both Gemini 10 and Gemini 11 used the Agena's engine's to boost the apogee orbit to 412 miles and 739 miles, respectively. An apogee boost by Agena was scheduled for Gemini 12, but was cancelled due to problems experienced during Agena's ascent to orbit. In all of my research, I have been unable to find the altitude that Gemini 12 hoped to boost to. Most likely it would have been higher the Gemini 11's height, but by how far?

[@dandeprop]

According to the Gemini 12 Press Kit, the intended apogee altitude for Gemini 12 after the Agena PPS burn was 460 miles.

[@josephstevens9888]

Thanks for the reply. Only 460 miles? If Gemini 12 did carry out an Agena apogee burn, I was hoping it would have been over 1,000 miles in height! NASA did a conduct study involved a Gemini docking with an uprated Agena that could propel the Gemini/Agena on a flyby mission of the Moon. This study was commission as alternative in case Project Apollo was delayed.

[@Karakulimbro]

Gemini 11 held the record, reaching an apogee of 1,370 km (Gemini 10's previous record was only 765 km). Want the exact figures? - "First man: The life of Neil A. Armstrong" by James R. Hansen 👍

[@princeendymion9044]

I've never heard John Young's voice when he was an astronaut, quite a shock to hear that hard Texan accent when i'm so used to his older soft voice from his later interviews

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Considering he was a Californian ...

[@dks13827]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver raised in Orlando then GA tech

[@KaiWipfler]

Great video! Thanks for your efforts, also with the upscaling.

[@fepatton]

Another winner! Beautifully done.

[@dks13827]

Not many of them left now in 2024. Gemini and also Apollo guys.

[@christinawells2024]

Jim Lovell is still with us. But Frank Borman and Ken Mattingly passed away last year.

[@magneticstorm1]

So is Dr. and Brigadier General the one and only Buzz Aldrin.

[@seantaggart7382]

Indeed Buzz? I hope i get to meet you If i can't? I do hope to meet anyone from the apollo mission or any legendary missions

[@dks13827]

Great video !!!!!!!! thank you.

[@nvsv_wintersport]

John Young went to space in almost whatever spacecraft NASA had, so learning new vehicles, everything! He is the only astronaut to fly on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle.

[@cameron1975williams]

John Young - The astronaut's astronaut.

[@micheldelving3684]

Hello totally agree with you, the best of the best, but he was not present in media s, nobody knows him although he was a good person, rip John

[@eannamcnamara9338]

Its funny how the first docking and the second EVA are described here in the post flight conference as being very standard and well done, while in Collin's book they are described as being quite far from standard or well done lol😅

[@nvsv_wintersport]

Around 25:09 I never realized that they trained EVA's in an airplane during zero-g flights. Nice!

[@brianarbenz1329]

John Young and Michael Collins are two very different personalities. They obviously worked together well, though. Young is introspective, serious, superbly competent. Collins is clever and excels at bits of ironic humor. I will add that John Young sounds as though he should be introducing his brothers Daryl and Daryl. Of course, before Newhart, that style wasn't associated with comedy.

[@troysimons7361]

Michael Collins. was the third American astronaut to conduct an extravehicular activity in space.

[@josephstevens9888]

During the Gemini 10 mission, Michael Collins stated that the crew took pictures of airstrikes being conducted by American pilots over North Vietnam. Has any of those pictures have been published?

[@RocketMan-wj5xz]

Yes. There is at least one image showing fires after a bombing raid on Haiphong Harbour in North Vietnam.

[@josephstevens9888]

Really... that would be interesting to see. Thanks!

[@nvsv_wintersport]

@@josephstevens9888 Including the people burning on the ground? And for what purpose? Communism? No! Money. JFK wanted to get out and they killed him, so they could keep making money from this war.

[@rogm8577]

Is the skip maneuver computer controlled or manually controlled?

[@hybirdisdf]

john young was commander of space shuttle columbia in 1981

[@tperk]

Gemini probably with the largest crew access hatches ever designed for a spacecraft.

[@namenotshown9277]

Picture of China and Taiwan ( referred to as Formosa) at 29:09, you will never see a picture like this again, since this was 1966 its before Chinas opening up to trade with the world, now iit has severe atmospheric pollution and in such a short time so much change. Even on a clear day today China mainland is completely covered in smog anyone who has flown over china and looked out the window will be aware of this. These early space photo records should be used to demonstrate how much pollution is really in the atmosphere. Although open to interpretation the image is a warning of things to come.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

You can see China's pollution problem daily on the Himawari-8 weather satellite live feed.

[@namenotshown9277]

I once flew across south east China, there was not a cloud in the sky, the the land was pretty much not visible due to the pollution, truly disturbing......@@RideAcrossTheRiver

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Apollo 10 and 11 featured the program's most experienced crews. All were veterans of rendezvous, docking, EVA, and emergencies.

[@seantaggart7382]

Makes sense since they were doing the First ever things

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@seantaggart7382 Then Al Shepard muscled in and screwed up everything.

[@seantaggart7382]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver oh? Okay

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@seantaggart7382 Yup. Lovell was slated for Apollo 14, but Shepard was so green upon his 'return' that Slayton wimped out for his old buddy and bumped him from 13 ... 'to give Al more training time'. The Apollo 14 sample return was also the poorest of all crews.

[@brucewebster5998]

Another great video with footage rarely seen before, all melded together beautifully with audio and still photos to present the mission in a level of detail appreciated by space junkies like me. Less than 4 years after this mission, and 9 months after the Apollo 11 moon landing, I had the honor, as a high school senior responsible for scheduling interesting speakers for our high school, of inviting and then hosting Colonel Collins as he gave his first speech to high school students in his new role as Assistant Secretary of State for President Nixon. For those interested in watching/listening to this space hero give a speech he was not accustomed to giving, I took the brief Super8 movie film I made of his introduction, along with the audio tape I made of his speech and a few still pictures and posted the resultant video at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZawf6hqpNZ4rqs.

[@abundantYOUniverse]

First! Fantastic thanks!

[@campbellmays9900]

9:33 or you could just do a go-around and adjust the maneuver plan accordingly without scrubbing.

[@ydonl]

Is that what you usually do?

[@mikemcgrath5188]

6:56 purge to 100% oxygen, what were they THINKING?

[@ohheyitskevinc]

This was prior to Apollo 1. But the issue wasn’t the 100% oxygen - it was the pressure inside and not checking the flammability of the spacecraft’s interior components. O2 was used as it was light to store and transport (vs O2 and nitrogen) and prevented the bends etc. They still flew with 100% O2 after Apollo 1, but at 5 psi which I believe is similar to Mercury and Gemini, not 16 psi as with Apollo 1, and outside air inside the spacecraft was purged after liftoff (removing the nitrogen). It was 100% O2 inside their suits too prior to liftoff - even on later Apollo missions. The purge Jack King references here is a similar purge used on other missions post Apollo 1, but on the ground, not after liftoff.

[@alan-sk7ky]

eh John Young at his test pilots drawl 😀

[@oregondiver2010]

😢

[@JanaTeague-r3c]

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[@johndyson4109]

It's not Gemine it's Gemini!

[@dks13827]

teachers ??? anyone ??? show these flights !!!!!!!!!! eh ?