Where Are All 10 Gemini Capsules Now
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Where Are All 10 Gemini Capsules Now
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Where Are All 10 Gemini Capsules Now
Where did the ten Gemini capsules end up once their flights were over, and why did one of them stay on the pad the first time its engines lit? This film follows all ten, and one more that is not among them, from the launch pad to the museums and closed doors where they are today. Subscribe to follow the next capsule hunt.
Chapters
0:00 One point two seconds
1:11 Two seats, two doors
3:38 Ed White's hatch
6:21 Gemini 5 and the pad stop
9:20 A foot apart
12:07 Armstrong and the Agena
16:45 Collins and the old Agena
19:50 The highest Gemini
22:28 One more capsule
24:46 The last door
Michael Collins, who flew Gemini 10 in this film, wrote one of the best astronaut memoirs there is, Carrying the Fire: https://link.amazon/B0aqeLpb5 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Archive: NASA (public domain). Wikimedia Commons: Jud McCranie, Art Anderson, Trond Strandsberg, Patrick Pelletier, Victor Grigas, Darkest tree and King of Hearts (CC BY-SA 3.0); Joe Ross, Alan Wilson and Bill Abbott (CC BY-SA 2.0); Niagara66, Chris Flook, DiscoA340, Michael Barera, Loganrex1, Clyde Charles Brown, Ichabod, Sanjay Acharya, Mike Peel and Steven Lek (CC BY-SA 4.0); jeffreyw, wilford peloquin, Clemens Vasters, Bruce Guenter and Magnus Lien (CC BY 2.0); Walkerspace (CC BY 3.0); Главархив Москвы, Stolbovsky and Myotus (CC BY 4.0). Music: Epidemic Sound.
Only the thumbnail image was generated with AI. Nothing in the film itself was: each clip and photograph shown is genuine.
Gemini 7 as Schirra and Stafford saw it from their own window in December 1965 is now a print: https://forgottenorbitfilms.com/gemini