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Gemini spacesuit. The Gemini spacesuit is a spacesuit worn by American astronauts for launch, in-flight activities (including EVAs) and landing. It was designed by NASA based on the X-15 high-altitude pressure suit. [citation needed] All Gemini spacesuits were developed and manufactured by the David Clark Company in Worcester, Massachusetts.
The Titan II/Gemini launch vehicle was dismantled to protect it from two hurricanes in August and September 1964. The second stage of the vehicle was taken down and stored in a hangar on August 26, 1964, in preparation for Hurricane Cleo, and the entire launch vehicle was subsequently dismantled and removed from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station's Launch Complex 19 in early September before ...
Project Gemini (IPA: / ˈ dʒ ɛ m ɪ n i /) was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly. Conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in early development, Gemini was conceived in 1961 and concluded in 1966.
Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) Procurement and Contracts Division contracted with the David Clark Company for modifying the Gemini flight suit, including the G3C and G4C suits, and related equipment for the Gemini 3 mission. The first four Gemini flight suits for the crew and the backup crew of Gemini 3, were delivered to MSC days later. [81]
Date (UTC) Spacecraft Event Remarks 2 February: Ranger 6: Lunar impact: Impacted Mare Tranquillitatis at 09:24:32, failed to return images : 14 July: Zond 1: Flyby of Venus: Closest approach: 100,000 kilometres (62,000 mi), communications system failed before flyby
Gemini 1 was launched from Launch Complex 19 at Cape Kennedy (now Canaveral), Florida on April 8, 1964. The spacecraft stayed attached to the second stage of the rocket. The mission lasted for three orbits while test data were taken, but the spacecraft stayed in space for almost 64 orbits until its orbit decayed due to atmospheric drag. The ...
After being stranded on the International Space Station since June, two astronaut castaways may still be months away from returning to Earth—in part because of incompatible space suits.
In March 1965, NASA approved the transfer of the Gemini 2 capsule to the USAF for modification into the first prototype of the Gemini B capsule. [5] On 3 November 1965, the first Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) and Gemini B suborbital test mission was launched. [5] It is the first capsule to ever be flown twice in space. [6]