Today In History: 40th Anniversary of Gemini VI

1965 8:37 am EST Gemini 6 launched. Walter Shirra & Thomas Stafford.
Flight duration 1 day 1 hr 51 min 24 sec

....Man, did 40 years fly by or what?

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OM wrote:
1965 8:37 am EST Gemini 6 launched. Walter Shirra & Thomas Stafford.
Flight duration 1 day 1 hr 51 min 24 sec

...Man, did 40 years fly by or what?

OM
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The original Gemini 6 / Agena mission planned for October 1965 was to
be a 2-day mission. I wonder why such a short mission was planned?

Below are some NASA PDF's about the original planned Gemini 6/Agena
mission and
the Gemini 6/7 mission.

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Here's some info about the original Gemini 6 / Agena October 1965
mission:


PREFLIGHT ORBITAL AND REENTRY TRAJECTORY DATA FOR GEMINI 6
YOUNG, K. A.; OSGOOD, C. T.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-TM-X-72335; MSC-IN-65-FM-125 , 19650917; SEP 17, 1965

Accession ID: 75N70856
Document ID: 19750064608
View PDF File
Updated/Added to NTRS: 2005-08-25

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975064608.pdf

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Here's a mission report about the failed Gemini 6 / Agena launch.


Gemini program mission report, gemini 6-a

NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-TM-X-61012; MSC-G-R-65-5 , 19651101; Nov 1, 1965

Accession ID: 79N76257
Document ID: 19790076749
View PDF File
Updated/Added to NTRS: 2005-08-25

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979076749.pdf

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Here's a report about the Gemini 6/7 rendezvous with pictures of the
spacecraft
taken by ground based cameras:


OBSERVATION OF GEMINI 6 - GEMINI 7 RENDEZVOUS
LATIMER, J. H.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-CR-71200; SAO SPECIAL REPT.-202 , 19660221; FEB 21, 1966
GEMINI 6-GEMINI 7 RENDEZVOUS PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY BAKER-NUNN CAMERA
Accession ID: 66N19643
Document ID: 19660010354
View PDF File
Updated/Added to NTRS: 2005-08-25


http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1966010354.pdf
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Rusty

Rusty wrote:
OM wrote:
1965 8:37 am EST Gemini 6 launched. Walter Shirra & Thomas Stafford.
Flight duration 1 day 1 hr 51 min 24 sec

...Man, did 40 years fly by or what?

OM
--

The original Gemini 6 / Agena mission planned for October 1965 was to
be a 2-day mission. I wonder why such a short mission was planned?

The early Gemini flights seemed to have narrowly-defined
goals. Gemini 3 flew with people for 3 orbits. Gemini 4
did EVA and a 4 day mission. Gemini 5 did an 8-day
flight. Gemini 6 was supposed to do rendezvous and
dock and that was pretty much it.

Ed Kyle wrote:
Rusty wrote:
OM wrote:
1965 8:37 am EST Gemini 6 launched. Walter Shirra & Thomas Stafford.
Flight duration 1 day 1 hr 51 min 24 sec

...Man, did 40 years fly by or what?

OM
--

The original Gemini 6 / Agena mission planned for October 1965 was to
be a 2-day mission. I wonder why such a short mission was planned?

The early Gemini flights seemed to have narrowly-defined
goals. Gemini 3 flew with people for 3 orbits. Gemini 4
did EVA and a 4 day mission. Gemini 5 did an 8-day
flight. Gemini 6 was supposed to do rendezvous and
dock and that was pretty much it.

Also, Gemini 6 was a battery-powered mission rather
than a fuel cell mission. Purposely, I'm sure, to decouple
the still-to-be-perfected fuel cells from the still-to-be-
perfected redezvous and docking. I wonder if propellant
mass requirements for a rendezvous mission might
have combined with the extra mass of batteries to limit
the mission duration.

- Ed Kyle

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:31:41 -0600, OM
wrote:

...Man, did 40 years fly by or what?


Most 40-year olds would say it does.




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Michael Gallagher wrote:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:31:41 -0600, OM
wrote:

...Man, did 40 years fly by or what?


Most 40-year olds would say it does.




Until you look at the pickup trucks and cars in some of the pictures:

http://img429.imageshack.us/img429/1...565h4286qx.jpg

http://www.johnwyoung.com/gt3/enlarge-gt3/10073892.htm

http://www.johnwyoung.com/gt3/enlarg...t3032200-3.htm


-Rusty

On 18 Dec 2005 10:14:17 -0800, "Rusty"
wrote:

http://www.johnwyoung.com/gt3/enlarge-gt3/10073892.htm

"Dammit, John...it's at least 10 miles to the nearest gas station."

OM
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OM wrote:
On 18 Dec 2005 10:14:17 -0800, "Rusty"
wrote:

http://www.johnwyoung.com/gt3/enlarge-gt3/10073892.htm

"Dammit, John...it's at least 10 miles to the nearest gas station."


"Don't blame me Gus. That bus driver was going give us a ride. But then
you had to pull
a Yuri Gagarin and pee on his tires."

Rusty

"Rusty" wrote in
oups.com:

Here's some info
about the original Gemini 6 / Agena October 1965 mission:


PREFLIGHT ORBITAL AND REENTRY TRAJECTORY DATA FOR GEMINI 6
YOUNG, K. A.; OSGOOD, C. T.
NASA Center for AeroSpace Information (CASI)
NASA-TM-X-72335; MSC-IN-65-FM-125 , 19650917; SEP 17, 1965

Accession ID: 75N70856
Document ID: 19750064608
View PDF File
Updated/Added to NTRS: 2005-08-25

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...0064608_197506
4608.pdf

Cathy Osgood is still working trajectory design at NASA/JSC. She'll get a
kick out of seeing this report.

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On 18 Dec 2005 10:14:17 -0800, "Rusty"
wrote:


Until you look at the pickup trucks and cars in some of the pictures:



Definitely '60s vintage; giving me fond flashbacks to the '67 Corvaire
my family had when I was a kid.



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