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Ampeg ("amplified peg") [1] [2] is a manufacturer best known for its bass amplifiers. Originally established in 1946 in Linden, New Jersey by Everett Hull and Stanley Michaels as "Michael-Hull Electronic Labs," today Ampeg is part of the Yamaha Guitar Group.
Tommy James played the rhythm guitar on his 1967 Fender Jazzmaster through an Ampeg Gemini 1, while Eddie Gray played lead guitar on his 1968 Gibson Les Paul Custom through an Ampeg Gemini 2 GV-22 with tremolo effect on, Mike Vale played bass and Peter Lucia, Jr. played drums.
The launch vehicle had imparted an excess 7 meters (24 feet) per second of velocity to the Gemini 1, placing the spacecraft into an orbit with an apogee of 320 kilometers (200 mi; 170 nmi) instead of the planned 299 kilometers (186 mi; 161 nmi). This lengthened Gemini 1's lifespan from the planned three and a half days to four. [4]: 199
Gemini was the second phase in the United States space program's larger goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the 1960s, as proposed by president John F. Kennedy. As an intermediary step, Gemini afforded its astronauts the opportunity to gain critical spaceflight experience, performing tasks ...
The mission, which the men named Apollo 1 in June, was originally planned for late 1966 to coincide with the last Gemini mission, but the impracticality of making the Gemini capsule and systems compatible with Apollo and delays in the spacecraft development pushed the launch into 1967. [49] [50] The launch of Apollo 1 was planned for February ...
Half a century ago, one man forced heads to turn away from the battle brewing in Vietnam, and instead look 120 miles above Earth. Major Edward H. White II stepped out of the doors of the Gemini IV ...
A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.
A retired Titan II missile, repainted as GLV-3 12558 (Gemini 3), is on display at KSC Rocket Garden since 2010. [8] Another retired Titan II missile, repainted as GLV-9 12564 (Gemini 9A), is on display at the Stafford Air & Space Museum. [9] A Gemini-Titan II full-scale replica was erected for the 1964 New York World's Fair.