“PROJECT GEMINI MISSION CONCEPT” 1960s NASA ANIMATED PROMO FILM 66884

[@tperk]

As I child I probably saw this film once and only once. Then I pleaded with my parents to help me find the issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology that had the article explaining the whole thing with illustrations identical to the film. Then I sat down in front of the TV, articles in hand, watching every special report and newscast about the Gemini missions. That was actually me at the age of 8. Now in my 60s so happy you uploaded this memory.

[@campbellmays9900]

Do you know which AW&ST issue that would’ve been?

[@thomasthomas2418]

These are the kind of documentaries that I would watch at 6:30 am on Saturday mornings. They spoke UP to the audience, educating them and bringing them into the intricacies of the program. As a result, I've worked at KSC for 35 years now, briefing the public on processing and flight operations.

[@whitesapphire5865]

Marvellous amination from those days. I remember books containing the same artwork and style. It's a shame that CGI can't come anywhere near as good! I was just a mere ankle biter at the time, but it was still an awe inspiring project that put NASA on track for Apollo, and gave me an interest that fired me up for Apollo at a time when I was old enough to comprehend the science and engineering behind it. Those were the glory days that I will always remember. Somehow, I can't imagine Artemis being anywhere near as awe inspiring, but good luck to them in the endeavour. We choose to go back to the moon!

[@dennismartin4659]

Don't know where you find all of these videos to post, but you and THG are absolutely best channels on YT in my opinion.

[@BELCAN57]

I'm 65 and remember Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. "We Choose to go to the Moon and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." JFK

[@DesertSky928]

Hard, like the Firmament as detailed in the hold scriptures?

[@andrewbartczak5941]

Best Presidential line, ever.

[@joevignolor4u949]

@@DesertSky928 No. Hard as in a long series of difficult technical challenges that had to be overcome one by one to put a man on the moon.

[@meesalikeu]

THE OTHER THING WAS MARILYN MONROE

[@Roarmeister2]

That very line was quoted by the administrators of Artemis yesterday at the post launch press briefing when asked about the 2nd stand-down of the launch.

[@KeepingOnTheWatch]

I love these documentaries!

[@CosmosNut]

Love these old animations because I am old... Get he point without todays CGI and etc...

[@joevignolor4u949]

Its amazing how they had to paint the individual frames in the animation one by one to make the entire movie. That's why Disney movies at the time like Snow White could take months or even years to complete.

[@super_ficial]

They didn't have CGI back then and so they had to use cartoons. Nothing was real.

[@frogfrager]

the background music is great

[@jenimcqueen7431]

Looks like Hanna Barbara cartoon lol bring back memories

[@DesertSky928]

Jonny Quest! --- - - - - Race Bannon, baby!

[@robertcampbell6349]

@@DesertSky928 Mike Pence as Race Bannon.

[@johnqpublic2718]

Now this is some fascinating footage!

[@DavidGalich77]

I hope there are new films out for the Artamis mission.

[@MIMALECKIPL]

artemis not artamis

[@ArmyJames]

@@MIMALECKIPL Spell it any way you want.

[@BELCAN57]

IF it ever launches.

[@trapperjohn6089]

2:00 bow Chicka wow wow! Could this have influenced Mike Judge in his ideas for the new Beavis and Butthead movie? Or how about venture brothers episode; Careers in science?

[@maxcleveland3446]

Go team Venture!

[@grasuh]

Great stuff, I mean the right stuff!

[@johnwang9914]

It's important to note that there was no hatch in the nose of Gemini and indeed no way to crawl through as the parachutes was in the way. The rendezvous was just to see if docking with another vehicle was possible. The US airforce considered putting a hatch in the heat shield at the rear and simply doing a space walk across was considered. They never did do the paraglider and there was a seven passenger super Gemini proposed.

[@gonzo4shur433]

Rite on.i was literally thinking how convenient that little shuttle nose piece was.lol.if I may were you ever involved with the program or just a fellow fan?

[@jeffkaczmarek3577]

2:00 I couldn't help but think of the new Beavis and Butthead movie during this part.

[@gonzo4shur433]

I loved the new one.alot of people hated it that I spoke to.i thought it was excellent for the most part.

[@Chattanoogachoochoo_0105a]

​@gonzo4shur433 ...it stunk very bad dude! You must be very delusional type of person!

[@Cancun771]

Yeah good luck stepping on Venus, pre-Venera 1950s guy.

[@DelverRootnose]

Gemini was an extremely challenging program. The great thing was that we learned so much from these missions. Some of these missions were challenging in unexpected ways. For instance one gemini-agena docking resulted in the poor astronauts losing control of the combined craft and being whirled about in space like a game of crack the whip. Other missions gave astronauts difficult Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) in which to learn how to just move in space without suffering exhaustion. A lot of the attempted dockings didn't go as planned in part because Agena at the time was so unreliable. In my favorite photo, there is a rendezvous with an Agena Target in which the faring shroud (the nose cone) didn't properly eject, causing the famous angry alligator picture. This was amusing and a little scary for a child like me, at the thought that the crew of the Gemini craft would get eaten, a la 'James Bond - You only Live Twice'. The Francis Rogallo wing designed for this, is instantly recognizable and the inventor would apply his wing to hang-gliding, making the sport possible. It's a shame that we never got that idea fully operational but a lot of cool things were tried for this program. Inflatable glider wings and even a proposed, modified Gemini space capsule design to bring astronauts to the moon! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoq4YYeontSUbq8.

[@joevignolor4u949]

The Gemini-Agena docking on Gemini 8 didn't result in the spacecraft spinning out of control. The unexpected motion was caused by a stuck thruster on the Gemini and it would have happened regardless if they were docked or not. In fact when it first started the spin rate was building up slower because of the additional mass of the Agena. That's why when Armstrong undocked the Gemini from the Agena the spin rate of the Gemini started increasing even faster than before.

[@АперКот-т5ф]

Damn.I thought it was new Gemini Home Entertainment video.

[@timengineman2nd714]

I grew up during Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo and remember reading, in my school's library, about the parasail and then, an idea that eventually became the Shuttle, DyanSoar! Interesting how their plans came to be.....

[@MediaWest]

very cool piece of history.

[@cowboybob7093]

5:13 - Comparing with Mercury - Sounds great, "scaled up," but Gemini had 2x the crew in an interior volume of 1.5x. They still managed to prove humans could survive two weeks orbiting in those quarters, among the many things proven by Gemini.

[@Chattanoogachoochoo_0105a]

To the owner of this video, is this available on dvd to purchase from your website?

[@gunsort3242]

Fun stuff but do we need the timecode window?

[@lifeindetale]

If NASA could just get this launched into orbit properly and safely.. problem is they lost all the brightest people in the 70 80s

[@fuckyomamafuckyosisterfuck6136]

We can blame the “affirmative action” hiring practices of the 70s and 80s for this occurring. When NASA was forced to hire someone based on their skin color, and not their talents, well, we get what we got.

[@neotree7706]

JWST? Tons of rovers on Mars? A freaking helicopter on Mars? Y’all aren’t paying attention if all you see is some tired bs political talking points. NASA continues to amaze.

[@reed785M]

@@neotree7706 lol

[@hermeticxhaote4723]

Hey moron, that's not true in the slightest. Go ahead and actually research the credentials of the NASA corp of engineers and astronauts. Congress and the president control NASA's budget and mandate and they have decided wars in places like Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq is where ALL our tax money, time and effort should be spent. Maybe spend less time obsessing about bullshit political lies and try to talk to a NASA engineer. Snowflake.

[@_apsis]

i hope you realize this already happened 60 years ago in the 1960s

[@party4keeps28]

I didn't know about the "paragliding capsule on a sled" concept.

[@brianarbenz1329]

I saw that in a 1964 National Geographic article about how we will go to the moon. It had elaborate drawings of how the landing would work. The article followed a huge tribute to John F. Kennedy, pairing the achieving of his goal with his memorial.

[@Setebos]

@@brianarbenz1329 That's where a lot of people (including me) first learned of the Gemini and Apollo programs.

[@simonecanepa8168]

This was the landing pattern of X-15 "sub orbital spaceplane" , but it was proven to be too clumsy with a not negligeable risk of malfunctioning. So it was decided to use the same proven concept of splashdown adopted for Mercury missions , and US Navy was glad because they had more importance and consideration

[@gerryroush8391]

So relaxing😊 👩‍🚀🚀🛰️📡🛰️

[@jamesanderton344]

Shorty Powers narrating?

[@riff2072]

Could be, kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6nbZ4xsltN1qKs

[@tsf5-productions]

Yes...it's John "Shorty" Powers who kept the U.S. TV/Radio networks updated on the old Mercury projects. I guess he did get called to do the Gemini program also in the 1960's.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Gene Cernan named a crater in the Apollo 17 landing area "Shorty" after him.

[@danstinson7687]

Gemini was a critical program. Mercury = 1, Gemini = 2.

[@jasonmitchell9622]

No iss was build at that time

[@Setebos]

I've heard that narrator before.

[@roachbaitfnv2591]

*laughs in Kerbal Space Program 🤣

[@joeblough4605]

The real problem with Gemini, was that there was no room on board for a functional Turboencabulator to prevent side-fumbling.

[@maxcleveland3446]

Side fumbling is very undesirable in orbital vehicles.

[@LilUltraKataru]

Mars once looked like earth much like every planet in the solar system

[@johnqpublic2718]

Yeah? Jupiter once looked like Earth?

[@marvintpandroid2213]

Well, there is todays dose of dumb.

[@LilUltraKataru]

@@johnqpublic2718 yuh humans got to it sun shined like a nice summer day the only thing getting that after us and the galactic war are the mountains.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

Baseless claims.

[@LilUltraKataru]

@@slow-mo_moonbuggy yup, pure science fiction

[@akhan9669]

LİARS LİARS LİARS money trap

[@robertcampbell6349]

Get back on the short school bus. This isn't your stop.

[@super_ficial]

All of NASA's, 'Satan Five' rockets went into cartoon animations four minutes after blast-off (courtesy of Walt Disney), I guess because NAZA doesn't know how to mount a camera, use telescopes or provide case planes. Black holes were first introduced in a science-fiction novel back in the sixties, then it became a Walt Disney movie in 1979 (Of course it's going to be Walt Disney) and now we have actual photographic evidence of someone's imagination. Do they take us for fools ? Images from the dwarf planet Pluto actually has Pluto's face on it (more Walt Disney). Yes, They do take us for fools. The taxpayers are spending trillions on a cartoon network.

[@warisaracket8808]

There is a limit NASA themselves have stated can’t be crossed by humans just above high earth orbit where everything else goes and it’s a boundary called the Van Allen belts and it’s much closer than the moon….oops

[@DesertSky928]

Van Allen Radiation Belt, aka The Firmament Book of Enoch Book of Revelation Book of Genesis Psalms 1:19 - - -The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims His handiwork.

[@joevignolor4u949]

NASA never said that. Exactly the opposite. James Van Allen, who in concert with NASA discovered the belts in 1958, wrote an open letter once this story about the belts being impenetrable started to circulate around. According to Van Allen the belts can safely be crossed as long as the spacecraft passes through the thinnest portions of the belts and does so quickly enough. Further, the belts are composed of high energy charged particles that are easily stopped by the spacecraft structure. The Russians tested this on their Zond 5 mission in 1968 during which they sent biological organisms, including turtles and fruit flies, through the belts and back. They all survived unharmed. There is a lot of misinformation being circulated on the Internet by conspiracy theorists who just parrot what they hear without really understanding what they are talking about.

[@joevignolor4u949]

@@DesertSky928 The Van Allen Belts are made up of high energy charged particles and they are easily penetrable. There is nothing firm (as in firmament) about them. The bible is just a bunch of silly nonsense that certainly shouldn't be taken literally or believed at all. It's not a science book. Science requires observational evidence and experiments to confirm theories. The scientific method wasn't around 2,000 years ago, and that's why the bible is mostly wrong.

[@robertcampbell6349]

@@DesertSky928 Idiot

[@Polyanna-ti2dz]

Indeed Pollyanna at its finest to believe all this I still laugh out loud such dreams not even achievable in our lifetimes but people still keep the faith why I don't know

[@edwardpate6128]

Change your ID to Killjoy perhaps

[@bobv8219]

Me either

[@brianarbenz1329]

People also use punctuation. Trying keeping a little faith in that, Poly whatever. Your rambling post makes you look like a buffoon. Perhaps that's accurate.

[@robertcampbell6349]

Ignorant dullard

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

Orbital missions you say? You're going to need a Radius value first there space grifters.

[@robertcampbell6349]

Get back on the short school bus. This isn't your stop.