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Proposed USAF Manned Orbitin …
Title Proposed USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Full Description A 1960 concept image of the United States Air Force's proposed Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was intended to test the military usefulness of having humans in orbit. The station's baseline configuration was that of a two-person Gemini B spacecraft that could be attached to a laboratory vehicle. The structure was planned to launch onboard a Titan IIIC rocket. The station would be used for a month and then the astronauts could return to the Gemini capsule for transport back to Earth. The first launch of the MOL was scheduled for December 15, 1969, but was then pushed back to the fall of 1971. The program was cancelled by Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird in 1969 after the estimated cost of the program had risen in excess of $3 billion, and had already spent $1.3 billion. Some of the military astronauts selected for the program then transferred to NASA and became some of the first people to fly the Space Shuttle, including Richard Truly, who later became the NASA Administrator.
Date 1960
NASA Center Headquarters
Cooper and Conrad Enroute to …
Title Cooper and Conrad Enroute to Launch Pad
Full Description Gemini 5 Prime Crew, Charles "Pete" Conrad and Gordon Cooper in their silver pressure suits are greeted by employees as they make their way to the launch pad.
Date 7/28/1965
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Ed White in space
Title Ed White in space
Full Description Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini-Titan 4 flight, floats in space while performing America?s first spacewalk on June 3, 1965. White spent 23 minutes maneuvering around his spacecraft as Jim McDivitt remained inside the spacecraft. White is attached to the spacecraft by a 25-ft. umbilical line and a 23-ft. tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand White carries a Hand-Held Self Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU), which he used to help move him around the weightless environment of space. The visor of his helmet is gold plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun.
Date 06/03/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Ed White performs first U.S. …
Title Ed White performs first U.S. spacewalk
Full Description Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 space flight, floats in space during America?s first spacewalk. The extravehicular activity (EVA) was performed during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965. White spent 23 minutes maneuvering around his spacecraft as Jim McDivitt remained inside the spacecraft. White is attached to the spacecraft by a 25-ft. umbilical line and a 23-ft. tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand, White carries a Hand-Held Self Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU), which he used to help move him around the weightless environment of space. The visor of his helmet is gold plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun.
Date 06/03/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 10 launch time exposu …
Title Gemini 10 launch time exposure
Full Description A time-exposure photograph shows the configuration of Pad 19 up until the launch of Gemini 10. Onboard the spacecraft are John W. Young and Michael Collins. The two astronauts would spend almost three days practicing docking with the Agena target vehicle and conducting a number of experiments.
Date 07/18/1966
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 11 maintenance
Title Gemini 11 maintenance
Full Description The Gemini 11 spacecraft is lowered onto a dolly for preflight maintenance before stacking on the Titan rocket at the Kennedy Space Center. Dick Gordon and Pete Conrad would liftoff in this spacecraft on September 12, 1966 for a mission lasting almost three days. The crew practiced docking with the Agena unmanned docking craft, and Gordon also performed two spacewalks during the mission.
Date 07/21/1966
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 3 capsule is mated wi …
Title Gemini 3 capsule is mated with Titan.
Full Description The Gemini 3 spacecraft is mated with the Titan II launch vehicle in the white room of Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and John Young rode the capsule into space on March 23, 1965 for a mission lasting almost five hours. The pair of astronauts tested out the spacecraft on the first manned Gemini flight.
Date 02/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 3 final inspection
Title Gemini 3 final inspection
Full Description Technicians from the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which was responsible for producing the Gemini capsule, make final inspections to the Gemini 3 spacecraft. The photo is taken at the white room, a sterile environment where the spacecraft is prepared for launch, atop the Titan launch vehicle at Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Gus Grissom and John Young would ride the spacecraft into orbit for the first Gemini mission on a five- hour trip into space on March 23, 1965.
Date 03/23/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 5 Launch
Title Gemini 5 Launch
Full Description NASA launched the Gemini 5 spacecraft, August 21, 1965 at 0900 EST on a planned eight-day mission from Complex 19. Astronaut Gordon Cooper was the Command Pilot and Charles Conrad the Pilot. This was the longest manned spaceflight at the time.
Date 8/21/1965
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Gemini 5 on the pad
Title Gemini 5 on the pad
Full Description The erector at Pad 19 is lowered in preparation for the launch of the Gemini 5 spacecraft.
Date 08/21/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 5 on the pad
Title Gemini 5 on the pad
Full Description The erector at Pad 19 is lowered in preparation for the launch of the Gemini 5 spacecraft.
Date 08/21/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Gemini 6 Back-up Crew
Title Gemini 6 Back-up Crew
Full Description Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom take part in training exercises as the back-up Crew for the Gemini 6 mission which will feature the first "docking" of two spacecraft in orbit.
Date 10/20/1965
NASA Center Headquarters
Gemini-Titan 11 Launch
Title Gemini-Titan 11 Launch
Full Description Lift-off of Gemini-Titan 11 (GT-11) on Complex 19. The Gemini 11 mission included a rendezvous with an Agena target vehicle.
Date 9/12/1966
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
GT-4 Launch
Title GT-4 Launch
Full Description Gemini-Titan 4 (GT-4) lift-off carrying James McDivitt and Ed White for a four-day mission. This flight included the first spacewalk by an American astronaut, performed by Ed White.
Date 06/03/1965
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
GT-4 Launch
Title GT-4 Launch
Full Description Gemini-Titan 4 (GT-4) lift-off from Pad 19. This flight included the first spacewalk by an American astronaut.
Date 6/3/1965
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
GT-4 Prelaunch Activities
Title GT-4 Prelaunch Activities
Full Description Gemini-Titan 4 (GT-4) Prime flight crew, Ed White and Jim McDivitt, at Pad 19.
Date 5/29/1966
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
Titan with Gemini Capsule
Title Titan with Gemini Capsule
Full Description Titan with Gemini capsule in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel.
Date 4/20/1964
NASA Center Langley Research Center
Viking Pre-Launch Test Fligh …
Title Viking Pre-Launch Test Flight
Full Description The Titan booster is a two-stage liquid-fueled rocket, with two additional large, solid-propellant rockets attached. It is a member of the Titan family that was used in NASA's Gemini program. The Centaur is a liquid oxygen- liquid hydrogen, high- energy upper stage used on Surveyor flights to the Moon and on Mariner flights to Mars. At liftoff, the solid rockets provide 9.61 million newtons (2.16 million pounds) of thrust. When the solids burn out, the first stage of the Titan booster ignites, and followed by the second-stage ignition as the first stage shuts down. The Centaur ignites on second stage shutdown to inject the spacecraft into orbit. Then after a 30-minute coast around the Earth into position for re-start, the Centaur re-ignites to propel Viking on its Mars trajectory. Once this maneuver is completed the spacecraft separates from the Centaur, which subsequently is deflected away from the flight path to prevent its impact on the surface of Mars. Shortly after separating from the Centaur, the orbiter portion of the combined orbiter-lander spacecraft orients and stabilizes the spacecraft by using the Sun and a very bright star in the southern sky, Canopus, for celestial reference. For more information about Titan and Centaur, please see Chapters 4 and 8, respectively, in Roger Launius and Dennis Jenkins' book To Reach the High Frontier published by The University Press of Kentucky in 2002.
Date 01/20/1974
NASA Center Kennedy Space Center
White Floats out the Open Ha …
Title White Floats out the Open Hatch
Full Description Astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot for the Gemini-Titan 4 space flight, floats in zero gravity of space. The extravehicular activity was performed during the third revolution of the Gemini 4 spacecraft. White is attached to the spacecraft by a 25-ft. umbilical line and a 23-ft. tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand White carries a Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit (HHSMU). The visor of his helmet is gold plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun.
Date 06/03/1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Titan II liftoff
Name of Image Titan II liftoff
Date of Image 2004-04-15
Full Description The Titan II liftoff. The Titan II launch vehicle was used for carrying astronauts on the Gemini mission. The Gemini Program was an intermediate step between the Project Mercury and the Apollo Program. The major objectives were to subject are two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, to effect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicle, and to perfect methods of reentry, and landing the spacecraft.
Titan, Gemini 12, liftoff
Name of Image Titan, Gemini 12, liftoff
Date of Image 1966-11-11
Full Description The Gemini 12 astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin lifted off aboard a Titan launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center on November 11, 1966. an hour and a half after their Agena target vehicle was orbited by an Atlas rocket. The Gemini Program was an intermediate step between Project Mercury and the Apollo Program. The major objectives were to subject are two men and supporting equipment to long duration flights, to effect rendezvous and docking with other orbiting vehicle, and to perfect methods of reentry, and landing the spacecraft.
Gemini 8 Launched by Titan B …
Name of Image Gemini 8 Launched by Titan Booster
Date of Image 1966-03-16
Full Description A Titan booster launched the Gemini 8 spacecraft on March 16, 1966 from launch complex 19 Cape Kennedy, Florida. The flight crew for the 3 day mission, astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott, achieved the first rendezvous and docking to Atlas/Agena in Earth orbit.
The Surface of Titan
Title The Surface of Titan
Explanation If sailing the hydrocarbon [ http://chemscape.santafe.cc.fl.us/chemscape/glossary/hdef.htm#24 ] seas of Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990207.html ], beware of gasoline rain. Such might be a travel advisory [ http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html ] issued one future day for adventurers visiting Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000820.html http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/titan.html ], the largest moon of Saturn [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html ]. New images of Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951021.html ]'s surface were released [ http://despa.obspm.fr/planeto/titan_pueo.html ] last week from the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope [ http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/ ] featuring the finest details [ http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=1999DPS....31.4103C ] yet resolved. Peering into Titan [ http://ispec.scibernet.com/student-pages/saturn/titan.html ]'s thick smog [ http://www.aqmd.gov/smog/inhealth.html ] atmosphere with infrared [ http://www.us-gemini.noao.edu/public/infrared.html ] light, complex features interpreted as oceans, glaciers [ http://uanews.opi.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ScienceResearch.woa/wo/XoEuK0m1padNGJ00ob/0.11.0.3?ArticleID=1926 ], and rock became visible. The high-resolution infrared image pictured above [ http://despa.obspm.fr/planeto/titan_pueo.html ] was made possible using an unblurring [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000725.html ] technique called adaptive optics [ http://www.lyot.obspm.fr/adaptive_optics.html ]. The interplanetary probe Cassini [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ ] will reach Saturn and Titan in 2004 to better explore [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970829.html ] this unusual world.
The Surface of Titan
Title The Surface of Titan
Explanation If sailing the hydrocarbon [ http://chemscape.santafe.cc.fl.us/chemscape/glossary/hdef.htm#24 ] seas of Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990207.html ], beware of gasoline rain. Such might be a travel advisory [ http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html ] issued next millennium [ http://www.usno.navy.mil/millennium/whenIs.html ] for adventurers visiting Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990804.html http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/titan.html ], the largest moon of Saturn [ http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/saturn.html ]. Images of Titan [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951021.html ]'s surface were released [ http://www.llnl.gov/PAO/NewsReleases/1999/NR-99-07-03.html ] last week from the Keck 10-meter telescope [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap971227.html ] featuring the finest details yet resolved. Peering into Titan [ http://ispec.scibernet.com/student-pages/saturn/titan.html ]'s thick smog atmosphere with infrared [ http://www.us-gemini.noao.edu/public/infrared.html ] light, complex features interpreted as oceans, glaciers, and rock became visible. The high-resolution infrared image pictured above [ http://www-igpp.llnl.gov/titan/images.html ] was made possible using an unblurring technique called speckle interferometry [ http://op.ph.ic.ac.uk/speckle/speckle.html ]. The interplanetary probe Cassini [ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/ ] will reach Saturn and Titan in 2004 to better explore [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970829.html ] this unusual world.
The Last Titan
Title The Last Titan
Explanation On October 19th [ http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/newsPaper/~lead.asp ], a rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base - the last Titan rocket. Carrying a payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office, the successful Titan IV B launch brings to a close the Titan program whose first launch was in 1959. Originally designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Titan rocket [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(rocket_family) ] ultimately evolved into a heavy lift workhorse, launching defense, commercial, and scientific payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. In fact, many historic space explorations began with Titan launches, including manned Gemini [ http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/history/gemini/ gemini.htm ] missions, the Viking [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html ] missions to Mars, the Voyager [ http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] tours of the outer solar system, and the Cassini [ http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm ] spacecraft now orbiting Saturn. Cassini's probe Huygens accomplished the most distant landing [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050117.html ] on another world, while Voyager 1 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031120.html ] is now humanity's most distant spacecraft [ http://www.heavens-above.com/solar-escape.asp ].
Location of reentry communic …
Title Location of reentry communications experiment planned for Gemini 3 flight
Description Diagram of Gemini spacecraft location of reentry communications experiment planned for the Gemini-Titan 3 orbital flight.
Date 01.01.1964
Astronaut Walter Schirra in …
Title Astronaut Walter Schirra in life raft in pool at air base during training
Description Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., the Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew command pilot, floats on a one-man life raft in pool at Ellington Air Base during water egress training.
Date 02.01.1965
Astronauts Edward White duri …
Title Astronauts Edward White during water egress paradrop training
Description Astronauts Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini-Titan 4 mission, is seen in a boat after his para-drop training. He is wearing a life vest over his space suit (10174), White is seen using a parachute to glide to the water's surface during water egress paradrop training (10175).
Date 02.02.1965
Astronauts Edward White duri …
Title Astronauts Edward White during water egress paradrop training
Description Astronauts Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini-Titan 4 mission, is seen in a boat after his para-drop training. He is wearing a life vest over his space suit (10174), White is seen using a parachute to glide to the water's surface during water egress paradrop training (10175).
Date 02.02.1965
Astronauts Grissom and Young …
Title Astronauts Grissom and Young in Gemini Mission Simulator
Description Astronauts Viril I. Grissom (right) and John Young (left), prime crew for the Gemini-Titan 3 mission, are shown inside a Gemini Mission Simulator at McDonnell Aircraft Corp., St.Louis, MO.
Date 05.22.1964
Astronauts Grissom and Young …
Title Astronauts Grissom and Young in Gemini Mission Simulator
Description Astronauts Viril I. Grissom (right) and John Young (left), prime crew for the Gemini-Titan 3 mission, are shown inspecting the inside of Gemini spacecraft at the Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Date 11.19.1964
Astronauts Young, Schirra, S …
Title Astronauts Young, Schirra, Stafford and Grissom during egress training
Description Astronauts John W. Young, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Thomas P. Stafford and Virgil I. Grissom (left to right) are shown during egress training during Gemini-Titan 2 simulation launch at Pad 19.
Date 11.24.1964
Portrait of Astronaut Richar …
Title Portrait of Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Description Portrait of Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. in civilian clothes with a model of the Gemini-Titan spacecraft on the table in front of him.
Date 09.01.1964
Space Station - early concep …
Title Space Station - early concept
Description Models of proposed space station launch vehicles (l-r): Saturn TB, Titan II Gemini, Atlas Agena.
Date 04.19.1963
Effect of reentry on communi …
Title Effect of reentry on communications experiment planned for Gemini 3
Description Diagram of effects of reentry on communications experiment planned for the Gemini-Titan 3 orbital flight.
Date 01.01.1964
Gemini 6 crew during press c …
Title Gemini 6 crew during press conference
Description Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), pilot, and Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot, have been named as the prime crew for the Gemini-Titan 6 flight. Their selection was announced at a Manned Spaceflight Center news conference on April 6, 1965.
Date 04.06.1965
Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew s …
Title Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew shown during water egress training at Ellington
Description The Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew, Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., (in water) and Thomas P. Stafford (on spacecraft) are shown during water egress training at Ellington Air Force Base (10118), Stafford (left) and Schirra are shown in Gemini spacecraft, with flotation collar attached, during water egress training (10119).
Date 02.01.1965
Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew s …
Title Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew shown during water egress training at Ellington
Description The Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew, Astronauts Walter M. Schirra Jr., (in water) and Thomas P. Stafford (on spacecraft) are shown during water egress training at Ellington Air Force Base (10118), Stafford (left) and Schirra are shown in Gemini spacecraft, with flotation collar attached, during water egress training (10119).
Date 02.01.1965
Titan with Gemini capsule
Title Titan with Gemini capsule
Description Titan with Gemini capsule in the Transonic Dynamics Tunnel.
Date 04.20.1964
View of a Gemini-Titan space …
Title View of a Gemini-Titan spacecraft on launch pad at night
Description View of a Gemini-Titan spacecraft on launch pad at night. The launch pad lights are all on and there are spotlights in the background.
Date 01.01.1964
Gemini 4 prime crew during w …
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The Gemini-Titan 4 prime cre …
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GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-IV - PRESI …
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President Lyndon B. Johnson …
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MISSION CONTROL CENTER (MCC) …
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Flight Director, John D. Hod …
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GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-V - INSERT …
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Astronauts L. Gordon Cooper …
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View of a Gemini-Titan space …
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View of a Gemini-Titan space …
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SIMULATOR - ASTRONAUT JOHN W …
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Astronaut Young and Virgil I …
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GEMINI-TITAN-IV - SUITED (CL …
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Astronauts Edward H. White I …
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GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-VII - PRIM …
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Portrait of the GT-VII Prime …
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WIVES - MISSION CONTROL CENT …
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Astronaut wives, Patricia Wh …
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GROUP - GEMINI ASTRONAUTS (S …
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