I remember very vividly the Gemini 8 mission. That day, I was sick with the flu, lying on the davenport in the living room of our house watching the whole mission on our black and white Zenith television. I'd been sick for several days and home from seventh grade junior high. Gemini 8 was a major emergency, and Walter Cronkite was monitoring the mission on CBS. There was no doubt in my mind that the spacecraft was in real trouble. Glad you have highlighted this mission. It was the mission which cast Armstrong into the arms of the first landing on the moon, as NASA was impressed with his considerable attention to the problem, even though his colleague, Scott, was near to losing consciousness from the uncontrolled chaotic contortions of the vehicle.
Armstrong and Scott were obviously the right men for the job and makes the case precisely for astronauts to be military test pilots. The amount of physics & math these guys had command of to wrestle that gemini capsule back into a stable orbit is the stuff of legend. Terrific video!
I have wondered if the powers at NASA didn't decide that Armstrong was the guy who would make the first lunar landing flight after Gemini 8. If they did they were correct.
if only he wasn't such a grump. It should have been someone like Charlie Duke, he was at least sociable and a nice guy. Armstrong barely ever spoke about it. But he was the best pilot, so he got picked
Those astronauts were extremely brave . As you infer they knew the odds against everything going without a hitch let alone the sheer volume of complete unknown unknowns makes them heroic to the point of crazy or near suicidal in the quest for exploration & knowledge. To think they probably weren’t paid as much as an England Premier League player receives for a single game is mind boggling. 😁👍🐢
Neil Armstrong was the best pilot/astronaut ever existed in the world being selected as the Apollo 11 commander was not luck, it was a big process to select him, not only his credentials but his personal life. On this particular mission David scott said “ i can’t believe how smart the courage he has, and how difficult physiologically was to start all the system turn off and on the switches to save the mission when i was not able to move bcz of the force that was my lucky day to flight with Neil”. Buzz aldrin said “i can’t believe how calm he was, when we were approaching to the moon he realized we will land in a crater, he disconnected the autopilot, and while i was telling him the altitude he was maneuvering manually the spacecraft while Huston was saying in seconds the fuel we had, he took us there brought us back alive.
I saw the movie "First Man" and I don’t believe it honors him. I don't agree with the depiction it projects of Neil Armstrong. That kind of a faint-hearted man, unable to tell his sons what is he about to do, dubious, distant to his family... Oh, God! That man is not Neil Armstrong! Neil was the absolute opposite to that. Yes. He was "special" in terms that he demanded respect to his thoughts and spoke less than usual people. But he was not out of range. He was not a failure! He was never undervalued by the X-15 management, he was maybe scared (who not!), but never terryfied when readying to be launched from The Old and Mighty B-52 during a severe turbulence. You can see in these gorgeously restored movies the air Neil showed just hours before Gemini 8 launched from the Cape. Compare with what appears in the movie when shows the same event and judge by yourself. I want to remark: you, Americans, have to give a second look and take more care and give more credit to your real recent-days heros. How much pain must have Neil felt when a bunch of ignorants empoying clumsy arguments decided that the landing on the Moon was a fake one... that the very Stanley Kubrik directed the scenes which would have been filmed in California! That everything is false because stars didn't appear on the photographs black sky! (forgetting the terms of aperture, film sensitivity and speed in photography)... Because in Sci-Fi movies stars “always appear”. That the very same old Neil who saved his ship and crew that day in 1966, was a liar in 1969! More than a confidence crisis, it looks a global intelligence and respect crisis. And people believe those bull...s!
I was 10 years old at the time, and remember vividly the tone of voice of the BBC radio newsreader who was reporting that the Gemini spacecraft was 'tumbling out of control' in orbit, and that there was concern for the safety of the 2 man crew. Yes, it made international news, and reinvigorated worldwide public interest in the NASA space programme.
Great episode which I tend to pick up as a podcast first but then watch on TH-cam too! 🎉Didn’t realise the timescales and this was really educational. I think your podcast was just under 10% of the duration of this mission which considering the decisions the astronauts made and their safe return (thank goodness) is crazy!
I appreciated running imto this video because the 'main stream youtube' appears to be piling on with a dumpster fire mentality about starliner. Honestly I am always amazed at the trouble shooting procedures in the Apollo missions I grew up with. Rather than dumpster fire headlines and 'too unsafe to fkly, pray for a succesful outcome', I think explainimg how the systems are being diagnosed, mitigated and made workable are cool stories to be applauded. Thanks for a great video,, I still think the gemini spacecraft are the coolest looking ones so far.
That was a day and a night in my teenage life that I will never forget! Thank you so much for this excellent reporting on a key moment in spaceflight.👍🏻
Neil played his cards when he decided undocking. He knew the problem could be in Agena or in his own ship. No clues showed him any bad signal in his ship, so, most probably Agena was the one in fault There was no communication with ground at that precise moment, to confirm or deny this. So he had reasons to decide undocking by himself. Sadly, he was wrong. At the precise moment they undocked, being Gemini the wrecking ship, the total mass of the spinning vehicle was abruptly reduced in a split second. Neil surely knew in advance that he would recognize immediatly if he had been wrong to undock, and so he did: gyrations sped up rapidly with the manouver. The gravity center also changed so, the movement characteristics must have changed all in a sudden and must have been terryfying for the two companions inside Gemini 8. Agena -having no problem with any of its thrusters, was ejected by centrifugal forces plus a series of complex movements added by the Gemini's ill-thruster. However, they all were constant movements. As the thruster in Gemini kept pushing, Gemini kept accelerating on and on and totally out of control. In zero-G, movements tend to persist unmolested until another force modify them. No drag, no resistence. With an unconcious crew, Gemini 8 would have theoretically kept accelerating until exhaustion of the thruster's fuel or desintengration by reaching structural tolerance limits... If fuel had exhusted, it would have kept spinning just like it was left by the last impulse of the thruster, up to the moment Earth's gravitational pull had dragged Gemini 8 to collide with high levels of atmosphere. For those days, crew would have surely died long time ago. Blood was accumulating inside their heads and vision must have been turning red at that moment, due to a pseudo-negative G forced by spinning. Head must have been aching too. Neil knew all this, so he had to save his crew. He must have remembered: first aviate, then navigate, then communicate, the three elementary steps in flight. So, he decided to aviate there and then. He began to fight with the controls. It was impossible to counteract the already gained momentum in short term using only the healthy thrusters. He decided to use the re-entry thrusters, but for that he had to eject all the main rear structure first, and he knew well, after this, there was only one path: immediate atmospheric re-entry even though they wouldn't even know where they would land or if there was even an American Embassy nearby. They had to do so, they were really trained for this. Mission profile had changed from nominal to survival. The ejection of the rear structure also exposed the retro-rockets, the element that were meant to reduce the orbital speed to initiate descent towards the atmosphere. Up to this moment they were only improvising. Nobody taught them to fly this specific emergency. The moment the rear section of Gemini 8 was discarded (including the ill-fated thruster), the spinning impulse ceased. Then, with a lighter ship, it was easier to manouver with the smaller re-entry thrusters. Scott communicated every step to Houston and kept the link alive. Gyrations ceased. Establishing a secure communications link with Houston, the decission to abort the mission was confirmed and a rapid contingency rescue plan was set up. These steps resume the weight of Neil Armstrong and what a kind of a Pilot and an Astronaut he was. Years later he escaped in the very last minute from the contraption called LLTV or “Lunar Lander Training Vehicle”, a tubes rig with four legs and an improvised (open) helicopter cockpit, a vertical jet engine and a vertical rocket too. And it added four clusters of control thrusters like those of the Lunar Module. Neil was flying the thing as part of his training for the impending Lunar landing attempt in July 1969. Footage is clear. There’s no way a seat ejection could be more opportune, considering the capacities ejection seats had by the late ‘sixties. He detects the problem, asseses the cause, decides if it’s possible or not to save the ship and -correctly, decides to eject, in the precise moment. And the saga continues. As Neil and Buzz approach to their landing site on the Lunar Module, among master alarms by computer radar signals saturation, he discovers calculations given by the computer are wrong. They are too long and calcules they must be landing past the actual site. Then he spots their real landing site where the computer believes must softly leave them. Fuel is diminishing at a high rate. Sixty seconds of fuel. The computer’s landing site is a crater full of boulders the size of automobiles. Nothing ensures Neil they don’t finish falling over one of them. He quickly decides to take manual control and fly over the crater. The plains after the crater are Terra Incognita, but at least look plainer and safer. Thirty seconds of fuel. A fine veil of flowing dust blurrs the real floor blown away by the main engine exhaust. Still looking a safe place to land. Neil uses some evident spots like small stones or small craters as a guide. Rear LEM leg shadow appears like a hope spear and nails into firm ground. “Houston,Tranquility Base here, The Eagle has landed”, he says.
This is a time in history when getting to orbit was a huge success in itself. John Glenn had a probable problem and got back alive, the key is got back alive. We all knew at that time that those guys were doing the nearly impossible, things that were impossible before they did them. I was 11 or 12, I knew they walked up to a huge bomb, rode an elevator to the top of it, and were sealed inside it, shortly before somebody set fire to the bottom of it. Huevos gigante! Its still before Viet Nam polarized the nation and the program was a piece of a national goal set by an assasinated, young, dynamic president. We as a group assumed that the cost would be high, not just financially high but higher than that. It was brought home to us in hard fashion with Apollo 1. The national goal drove us past Apollo 1 and the financial drain of Viet Nam before anyone could find monies to build on the goal. It proved theory but turned into 'eh what now'. Whatta waste of knowledge, momentum, and manpower...
This reminds me of Kramz's apolli 13 comment. "Work the problem. Let's not make it worse by guessing". Armstrong ability to find a solution in a crisis proved he was made of the 'right stuff'.
@5:41 Some little Weasel in a Suit harassing the Space Suit Tech. Good thing the Stuck Thruster didn't happen during Scotts Spacewalk. Likely would have cost the lives of both Armstrong and Scott. Scott being thrown around Violently, and Armstrong because of a Damaged Hatch, not being Securable, would have let hot/ionized Gases during Reentry into the Cabin
Great review of this tense mission. I think it very difficult to "skip off the atmosphere and go back out into space" when in low earth orbit. You might increase altitude as a trade for some speed but you will hit the atmosphere again right away. Coming back from the moon, yes you could skip off.
the way the public perceived it at the time compared to now. in those days there were few voices telling us what it was; success, failure, failure with success... less than a half dozen voices on tv and we had no choice but to go along with them if you follow. totally unlike today! the same few voices had a lot to do with the termination of apollo, the public pulling support for landing on the moon...while we were actually landing on the moon! that was the power they had and we could never have come to that conclusion on our own. i was in my teens during all this
Cool stuff. But what were the lessons learned about how Armstrong handled it? Am I correct in thinking the optimal way to stop the spin was to detach right after closing the errant thruster, and then using the other thrusters, so you're not wasting fuel on spinning the larger mass? Also, how many minutes did the emergency and spin last?
If you want to witness the dark side of mid-60s space-racing, take a look at the development of Soyuz, specifically the flights leading up to, and including, Soyuz 1. Vladimir Komarov was also a brave and resourceful test pilot. Apollo 1 was a tragedy, but not the result of callous disregard for human life. Soyuz 1 was most certainly that.
Neil and Dave were over a "deaf zone"; there were no relay stations to allow communications with Houston at the moment the gytations began. Probably they were over a Communist Block zone when it all began, so no American relay ship was around. Once re-established radio contact with Houston, they were just amid their deed just undocked and madly turning around. Then the quality of communication was real bad but even though, the rotation was so fast that antennas could deliver a readable message.
Didn't get all the sequence right but close they didn't realize it was the Gemini capsule issue until they unlocked you claimed they knew it was there capsule issue before they undocked
Either is fine, but the official NASA pronunciation for the Gemini space program is JEM-ih-knee. I prefer to use that, but people have used both for decades.
I had seen this video before and didn’t see this detail. Most likely in Pearl Harbor where his remains sailed from the last time. We used to live 1/2 mile from the cemetery where his daughter was buried in Palmdale
I remember very vividly the Gemini 8 mission. That day, I was sick with the flu, lying on the davenport in the living room of our house watching the whole mission on our black and white Zenith television. I'd been sick for several days and home from seventh grade junior high. Gemini 8 was a major emergency, and Walter Cronkite was monitoring the mission on CBS. There was no doubt in my mind that the spacecraft was in real trouble. Glad you have highlighted this mission. It was the mission which cast Armstrong into the arms of the first landing on the moon, as NASA was impressed with his considerable attention to the problem, even though his colleague, Scott, was near to losing consciousness from the uncontrolled chaotic contortions of the vehicle.
Armstrong and Scott were obviously the right men for the job and makes the case precisely for astronauts to be military test pilots. The amount of physics & math these guys had command of to wrestle that gemini capsule back into a stable orbit is the stuff of legend. Terrific video!
Neil Armstrong was such a badass, America lucked out having him, he was best singular possible person for the lunar landing.
He played a mean trumpet too
@@ivanvz 🤣🤣🤣
Flying a panther with missing wing, the flying bedstead, he cheated that Reaper
I have wondered if the powers at NASA didn't decide that Armstrong was the guy who would make the first lunar landing flight after Gemini 8. If they did they were correct.
if only he wasn't such a grump. It should have been someone like Charlie Duke, he was at least sociable and a nice guy. Armstrong barely ever spoke about it. But he was the best pilot, so he got picked
Those astronauts were extremely brave . As you infer they knew the odds against everything going without a hitch let alone the sheer volume of complete unknown unknowns makes them heroic to the point of crazy or near suicidal in the quest for exploration & knowledge. To think they probably weren’t paid as much as an England Premier League player receives for a single game is mind boggling. 😁👍🐢
Another great episode. It was great looking back in the past to hear of the struggles that they went through to bring us to today.
A great story... terrifying, but great. 🤘
Nice episode, paid attention to the intro you have this time: It's awesome! Extremely well done.
Glad you like it!
Another great episode, loving the podcast format, Tory
Thank you! 🙏
Neil Armstrong was the best pilot/astronaut ever existed in the world being selected as the Apollo 11 commander was not luck, it was a big process to select him, not only his credentials but his personal life. On this particular mission David scott said “ i can’t believe how smart the courage he has, and how difficult physiologically was to start all the system turn off and on the switches to save the mission when i was not able to move bcz of the force that was my lucky day to flight with Neil”. Buzz aldrin said “i can’t believe how calm he was, when we were approaching to the moon he realized we will land in a crater, he disconnected the autopilot, and while i was telling him the altitude he was maneuvering manually the spacecraft while Huston was saying in seconds the fuel we had, he took us there brought us back alive.
I saw the movie "First Man" and I don’t believe it honors him. I don't agree with the depiction it projects of Neil Armstrong. That kind of a faint-hearted man, unable to tell his sons what is he about to do, dubious, distant to his family... Oh, God! That man is not Neil Armstrong! Neil was the absolute opposite to that. Yes. He was "special" in terms that he demanded respect to his thoughts and spoke less than usual people. But he was not out of range. He was not a failure! He was never undervalued by the X-15 management, he was maybe scared (who not!), but never terryfied when readying to be launched from The Old and Mighty B-52 during a severe turbulence. You can see in these gorgeously restored movies the air Neil showed just hours before Gemini 8 launched from the Cape. Compare with what appears in the movie when shows the same event and judge by yourself.
I want to remark: you, Americans, have to give a second look and take more care and give more credit to your real recent-days heros. How much pain must have Neil felt when a bunch of ignorants empoying clumsy arguments decided that the landing on the Moon was a fake one... that the very Stanley Kubrik directed the scenes which would have been filmed in California! That everything is false because stars didn't appear on the photographs black sky! (forgetting the terms of aperture, film sensitivity and speed in photography)... Because in Sci-Fi movies stars “always appear”. That the very same old Neil who saved his ship and crew that day in 1966, was a liar in 1969! More than a confidence crisis, it looks a global intelligence and respect crisis. And people believe those bull...s!
I was 10 years old at the time, and remember vividly the tone of voice of the BBC radio newsreader who was reporting that the Gemini spacecraft was 'tumbling out of control' in orbit, and that there was concern for the safety of the 2 man crew. Yes, it made international news, and reinvigorated worldwide public interest in the NASA space programme.
Great episode which I tend to pick up as a podcast first but then watch on TH-cam too! 🎉Didn’t realise the timescales and this was really educational. I think your podcast was just under 10% of the duration of this mission which considering the decisions the astronauts made and their safe return (thank goodness) is crazy!
you have a perfect radio voice on you. i could listen for hours no matter what the topic
I appreciated running imto this video because the 'main stream youtube' appears to be piling on with a dumpster fire mentality about starliner.
Honestly I am always amazed at the trouble shooting procedures in the Apollo missions I grew up with.
Rather than dumpster fire headlines and 'too unsafe to fkly, pray for a succesful outcome', I think explainimg how the systems are being diagnosed, mitigated and made workable are cool stories to be applauded.
Thanks for a great video,, I still think the gemini spacecraft are the coolest looking ones so far.
I love the Gemini spacecraft! 😁
Thanks for relating this story. I've never heard of it. Space is hard.
That was a day and a night in my teenage life that I will never forget! Thank you so much for this excellent reporting on a key moment in spaceflight.👍🏻
Thank you for the Gemini 8 after story. Most impressed with those brave fellows.
They didn't know that all they had to do is say "Come on, TARS" twice.
Alright, alright, alright. 😁🤘
Neil played his cards when he decided undocking. He knew the problem could be in Agena or in his own ship. No clues showed him any bad signal in his ship, so, most probably Agena was the one in fault There was no communication with ground at that precise moment, to confirm or deny this. So he had reasons to decide undocking by himself. Sadly, he was wrong. At the precise moment they undocked, being Gemini the wrecking ship, the total mass of the spinning vehicle was abruptly reduced in a split second. Neil surely knew in advance that he would recognize immediatly if he had been wrong to undock, and so he did: gyrations sped up rapidly with the manouver. The gravity center also changed so, the movement characteristics must have changed all in a sudden and must have been terryfying for the two companions inside Gemini 8. Agena -having no problem with any of its thrusters, was ejected by centrifugal forces plus a series of complex movements added by the Gemini's ill-thruster. However, they all were constant movements. As the thruster in Gemini kept pushing, Gemini kept accelerating on and on and totally out of control.
In zero-G, movements tend to persist unmolested until another force modify them. No drag, no resistence. With an unconcious crew, Gemini 8 would have theoretically kept accelerating until exhaustion of the thruster's fuel or desintengration by reaching structural tolerance limits... If fuel had exhusted, it would have kept spinning just like it was left by the last impulse of the thruster, up to the moment Earth's gravitational pull had dragged Gemini 8 to collide with high levels of atmosphere. For those days, crew would have surely died long time ago. Blood was accumulating inside their heads and vision must have been turning red at that moment, due to a pseudo-negative G forced by spinning. Head must have been aching too.
Neil knew all this, so he had to save his crew. He must have remembered: first aviate, then navigate, then communicate, the three elementary steps in flight. So, he decided to aviate there and then. He began to fight with the controls. It was impossible to counteract the already gained momentum in short term using only the healthy thrusters. He decided to use the re-entry thrusters, but for that he had to eject all the main rear structure first, and he knew well, after this, there was only one path: immediate atmospheric re-entry even though they wouldn't even know where they would land or if there was even an American Embassy nearby. They had to do so, they were really trained for this. Mission profile had changed from nominal to survival.
The ejection of the rear structure also exposed the retro-rockets, the element that were meant to reduce the orbital speed to initiate descent towards the atmosphere. Up to this moment they were only improvising. Nobody taught them to fly this specific emergency.
The moment the rear section of Gemini 8 was discarded (including the ill-fated thruster), the spinning impulse ceased. Then, with a lighter ship, it was easier to manouver with the smaller re-entry thrusters. Scott communicated every step to Houston and kept the link alive. Gyrations ceased.
Establishing a secure communications link with Houston, the decission to abort the mission was confirmed and a rapid contingency rescue plan was set up.
These steps resume the weight of Neil Armstrong and what a kind of a Pilot and an Astronaut he was. Years later he escaped in the very last minute from the contraption called LLTV or “Lunar Lander Training Vehicle”, a tubes rig with four legs and an improvised (open) helicopter cockpit, a vertical jet engine and a vertical rocket too. And it added four clusters of control thrusters like those of the Lunar Module.
Neil was flying the thing as part of his training for the impending Lunar landing attempt in July 1969. Footage is clear. There’s no way a seat ejection could be more opportune, considering the capacities ejection seats had by the late ‘sixties. He detects the problem, asseses the cause, decides if it’s possible or not to save the ship and -correctly, decides to eject, in the precise moment.
And the saga continues. As Neil and Buzz approach to their landing site on the Lunar Module, among master alarms by computer radar signals saturation, he discovers calculations given by the computer are wrong. They are too long and calcules they must be landing past the actual site.
Then he spots their real landing site where the computer believes must softly leave them.
Fuel is diminishing at a high rate. Sixty seconds of fuel. The computer’s landing site is a crater full of boulders the size of automobiles. Nothing ensures Neil they don’t finish falling over one of them. He quickly decides to take manual control and fly over the crater. The plains after the crater are Terra Incognita, but at least look plainer and safer. Thirty seconds of fuel. A fine veil of flowing dust blurrs the real floor blown away by the main engine exhaust. Still looking a safe place to land. Neil uses some evident spots like small stones or small craters as a guide. Rear LEM leg shadow appears like a hope spear and nails into firm ground. “Houston,Tranquility Base here, The Eagle has landed”, he says.
This is a time in history when getting to orbit was a huge success in itself. John Glenn had a probable problem and got back alive, the key is got back alive. We all knew at that time that those guys were doing the nearly impossible, things that were impossible before they did them. I was 11 or 12, I knew they walked up to a huge bomb, rode an elevator to the top of it, and were sealed inside it, shortly before somebody set fire to the bottom of it. Huevos gigante! Its still before Viet Nam polarized the nation and the program was a piece of a national goal set by an assasinated, young, dynamic president. We as a group assumed that the cost would be high, not just financially high but higher than that. It was brought home to us in hard fashion with Apollo 1. The national goal drove us past Apollo 1 and the financial drain of Viet Nam before anyone could find monies to build on the goal. It proved theory but turned into 'eh what now'. Whatta waste of knowledge, momentum, and manpower...
This reminds me of Kramz's apolli 13 comment. "Work the problem. Let's not make it worse by guessing". Armstrong ability to find a solution in a crisis proved he was made of the 'right stuff'.
Gene Kranz has a cool head when problems arose.My favorite flight commander
@5:41 Some little Weasel in a Suit harassing the Space Suit Tech.
Good thing the Stuck Thruster didn't happen during Scotts Spacewalk. Likely would have cost the lives of both Armstrong and Scott. Scott being thrown around Violently, and Armstrong because of a Damaged Hatch, not being Securable, would have let hot/ionized Gases during Reentry into the Cabin
Great review of this tense mission. I think it very difficult to "skip off the atmosphere and go back out into space" when in low earth orbit. You might increase altitude as a trade for some speed but you will hit the atmosphere again right away. Coming back from the moon, yes you could skip off.
I've always thought the Skip Off the Atmosphere from LEO fear was more of a "it'll make them land WAY long if they skip" kinda fear.
I love the intro ... great episode Mr.C. 👍✌
Thanks 👍
Great episode! I never even heard about this event previously!
the way the public perceived it at the time compared to now. in those days there were few voices telling us what it was; success, failure, failure with success... less than a half dozen voices on tv and we had no choice but to go along with them if you follow. totally unlike today! the same few voices had a lot to do with the termination of apollo, the public pulling support for landing on the moon...while we were actually landing on the moon! that was the power they had and we could never have come to that conclusion on our own. i was in my teens during all this
And, yet, Apollo 1 stood between Gemini 8 and Apollo 13.
Would SpaceX survive its version?
Cool stuff. But what were the lessons learned about how Armstrong handled it? Am I correct in thinking the optimal way to stop the spin was to detach right after closing the errant thruster, and then using the other thrusters, so you're not wasting fuel on spinning the larger mass? Also, how many minutes did the emergency and spin last?
Did you notice that Neil was supervising the off loading of his capsule on the support frame to go back to NASA
Inspecting it.... or maybe cursing at it. Lol 🙃
Very lucky they survived.
If you want to witness the dark side of mid-60s space-racing, take a look at the development of Soyuz, specifically the flights leading up to, and including, Soyuz 1. Vladimir Komarov was also a brave and resourceful test pilot. Apollo 1 was a tragedy, but not the result of callous disregard for human life. Soyuz 1 was most certainly that.
Good Job 👍
Thanks 😁
We have GO for the new podcast!
😁
Neil and Dave were over a "deaf zone"; there were no relay stations to allow communications with Houston at the moment the gytations began. Probably they were over a Communist Block zone when it all began, so no American relay ship was around. Once re-established radio contact with Houston, they were just amid their deed just undocked and madly turning around. Then the quality of communication was real bad but even though, the rotation was so fast that antennas could deliver a readable message.
So good! Such a great podcast ❤
Thank you! 🙏
Didn't get all the sequence right but close they didn't realize it was the Gemini capsule issue until they unlocked you claimed they knew it was there capsule issue before they undocked
love your channel. very educational. but you got me when you pronounced Gemini as (gem-me-need) i thought it was ( gem-me-nye). but what i know lol. 😂
Either is fine, but the official NASA pronunciation for the Gemini space program is JEM-ih-knee. I prefer to use that, but people have used both for decades.
space is hard!
You keep missing the other i
I had seen this video before and didn’t see this detail. Most likely in Pearl Harbor where his remains sailed from the last time. We used to live 1/2 mile from the cemetery where his daughter was buried in Palmdale
Jim-in-EYE
NOT Jim-innee
Lol... Here we go again. 🙄
Either is fine, but the most common pronunciation inside NASA at the time was JEM-ih-knee. 😉
@@VirgilTStone Many of the guys who flew Gemini used the latter pronunciation.