National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Gemini program activities to prepare for the Apollo moon mission. Footage spanning multiple years in 1960s. Multiple views of the Saturn V launch vehicle (rocket) on launch platform and as it is moved into position at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Helicopter lifting off beside Saturn V with rocket and launch tower in background. Spotlights at night shined onto a Gemini Titan II rocket. Narrator explains purpose of Gemini as precursor to Apollo program. A specially configured USAF C-135 (Boeing 707) aircraft taking off and views inside, as it performs parabolic sweep maneuvers to give astronauts some experience with "weightlessness"and the operation of equipment in such conditions. View of a swimming pool with Gemini astronauts practicing neutral buoyancy with their vehicle and equipment in semi-weightless conditions. Views of Gemini astronauts training in a simulator and undergoing special parachute training. Astronaut survival training including exits from capsule at sea, desert, and jungle training. Gemini astronauts boarding capsule for an orbital mission from Launch Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Narrator names all the Gemini astronauts: Grissom, Young, McDivitt, White, Cooper, Conrad, Borman, Lovell, Schirra, Stafford, Armstrong, Scott, Cernan, Collins, Gordon, Aldrin. View of NASA Gemini astronauts entering capsule, being seated, secured, and door closed and secured before launch.
Launch of NASA Gemini XI from Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. Technicians inside the Mission Control room for launch of Gemini XI. Close-ups of faces and expressions of Mission Control staff during countdown. Engines of the Launch Vehicle: Titan II GLV GT-11 / 62-12566.as ignition starts. The Gemini 11 rocket (Titan II launch vehicle) lifts off. Birds in the vicinity fly off. Citizens, dignitaries and various people in reviewing stand watch through binoculars as the spacecraft lifts into the air.
Dramatic view from NASA spacecraft looking backwards during launch. Hot glow from booster rocket, which is then seen separating from the launch vehicle, and the blue sphere of the Earth becomes visible. View of earth from orbiting spacecraft. Glimpse of NASA Astronauts, Frank Borman, and James Lovell, in Gemini VII. view of desert terrain on earth, below. views of sunsets from space. another glimpse of Frank Borman in spacecraft.
Glimpse of astronaut in NASA Gemini spacecraft during orbit. Dramatic views of the Earth from orbit. Eclipse of the sun photographed from Gemini XII. Two Gemini spacecraft (probably Gemini VI and VII) orbiting earth, in formation, close to one another.
Views from NASA Gemini spacecraft maneuvering close to Agena vehicle in space. A dacron tether attaching a Gemini craft to the Agena space vehicle. The tether held taut by the differential gravitational pull on the two space vehicles (Agena being closer to earth). Astronaut Ed White, performing the first extra vehicular activity (space walk) during the Gemini IV mission in June 1965. His overglove is seen floating past him. He performs work in space using special tools. Views of other astronauts having difficulties during subsequent space walks. Astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, pilot of Gemini XII, performs a series of tasks during a space walk test, proving the value of rest breaks, tethers, and handholds to facilitate such work in the weightlessness of space. He removes a hatch, that flies away. He tightens bolts.
Apollo 204 (Apollo 1) review board documentary film in the United States. View of the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The covered capsule kept at the center. Marks of burn on the Apollo 1 capsule. Personnel of the Apollo review board works on the capsule. Men write on papers. Personnel of Apollo review board investigate wires onto the capsule. A man writes on a paper.
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