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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 with Agena on Earth
Title Gemini with Agena on Earth
Full Description Gemini 6 spacecraft (right) and Agena Target Vehicle (left) on the Boresight Range Tower for at the Kennedy Space Center to test the two spacecrafts? docking capability. Agena was designed to launch separately from Gemini and act as a target for astronauts in a Gemini spacecraft to rendezvous with. Gemini 6 was slated to be the first mission to dock with Agena, but a malfunction with the unmanned target resulted in new objectives for Gemini 6 calling for a one day rendezvous with Gemini 7 in December, 1965.
Date 1965
NASA Center Johnson Space Center
Astronaut Frank Borman durin …
Title Astronaut Frank Borman during weight and balance test
Description Astronaut Frank Borman, command pilot of the Gemini 7 prime crew, undergoes weight and balance tests in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center.
Date 10.25.1965
Astronaut Frank Borman looks …
Title Astronaut Frank Borman looks over the Gemini 7 spacecraft
Description Astronaut Frank Borman, command pilot of the Gemini 7 prime crew, looks over the Gemini 7 spacecraft during weight and balance tests. The tests are conducted in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center as part of preflight preparation.
Date 10.25.1965
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - …
Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Before the induction ceremony of five space program heroes into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, astronaut John Young is warmly greeted as he is introduced as a previous inductee. Co-holder of a record for the most space flights, six, he flew on Gemini 3 and 10, orbited the Moon on Apollo 10, walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, and commanded two space shuttle missions, STS-1 and STS-9. Young currently serves as associate director, technical, at Johnson Space Center. The induction ceremony was held at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at KSC. New inductees are Richard O. Covey, commander of the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, Norman E. Thagard, the first American to occupy Russia?s Mir space station, the late Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, commander of the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission, Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, and Frederick D. Gregory, the first African-American to command a space mission and the current NASA deputy administrator. The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 to provide a place where space travelers could be remembered for their participation and accomplishments in the U.S. space program. The five inductees join 52 previously honored astronauts from the ranks of the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and Space Shuttle programs.
Release Date 05/01/2004
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - …
Description KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - At the KSC Visitor Complex, former astronaut James A. Lovell (standing left) greets former astronaut Story Musgrave (standing right) at his induction ceremony into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. Also seated on the dais are, from left, former astronaut and Senator John H. Glenn, astronaut and Associate Director (Technical) of the Johnson Space Center John W. Young, and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin, all previously inducted into the Hall of Fame. Being inducted with Musgrave are Space Shuttle astronauts Daniel Brandenstein, Robert "Hoot" Gibson, and Sally Ride. Conceived by six of the Mercury Program astronauts, the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 to provide a place where space travelers could be remembered for their participation and accomplishments in the U.S. space program. The four new inductees join 48 previously honored astronauts from the ranks of the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, and Space Shuttle programs.
Release Date 06/21/2003
Post Gemini 3 mission press …
Title Post Gemini 3 mission press conference
Description News conference held at the Carriage House press site the day after the successful Gemini-Titan 3 three-orbit mission. Being interviewed at the press table by news media are (left to right) Dr. Kurt H. Debus, Director, Kennedy Space Center, Christopher C. Kraft Jr., MSC Assistant Director for Flight Operations, Astronaut Joh W. Young, pilot of the GT-3 flight, Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot of the GT-3 mission, Dr. Robert R. Gilruth, MSC Director, Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Associate Administrator, NASA, and Julian Scheer, Assistant Administrator, Office of Public Affairs, NASA.
Date Taken 1965-04-07
Astronaut Frank Borman looks …
Title Astronaut Frank Borman looks over the Gemini 7 spacecraft
Description Astronaut Frank Borman, command pilot of the Gemini 7 prime crew, looks over the Gemini 7 spacecraft during weight and balance tests. The tests are conducted in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center as part of preflight preparation.
Date Taken 1965-10-25
Astronaut Walter Schirra dur …
Title Astronaut Walter Schirra during weight and balance test
Description Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot of the Gemini-Titan 6 prime crew, undergoes weight and balance tests in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center.
Date Taken 1965-09-22
Astronaut Frank Borman durin …
Title Astronaut Frank Borman during weight and balance test
Description Astronaut Frank Borman, command pilot of the Gemini 7 prime crew, undergoes weight and balance tests in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center.
Date Taken 1965-10-25
Astronauts Stafford and Schi …
Title Astronauts Stafford and Schirra during suiting exercises
Description Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), pilot, and Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot, Gemini 6 prime crew, during suiting up exercises at the Kennedy Space Center.
Date Taken 1965-10-01
Astronaut Thomas Stafford du …
Title Astronaut Thomas Stafford during suiting exercises
Description Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, pilot, Gemini 6 prime crew, undergoes suiting up exercises at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for his forthcoming flight.
Date Taken 1965-10-20
U.S. Air Force Radiation in …
Title U.S. Air Force Radiation in Space experiment for Gemini 6 flight
Description U.S. Air Force Weapons Laboratory D-8 (Radiation in Space) experiment for Gemini 6 flight. Kennedy Space Center alternative photo number is 104-KSC-65C-5533.
Date Taken 1965-12-10
View of the interior of the …
Title View of the interior of the Mission Control Center at KSC during Gemini 6
Description View of the interior of the Mission Control Center at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during the Gemini 6 launch.
Date Taken 1965-12-15
Gemini 7 prime crew during s …
Title Gemini 7 prime crew during suiting up procedures at Launch Complex 16
Description Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. (left), Gemini 7 prime crew pilot, talks with NASA space suit technician Clyde Teague during suiting up procedures at Launch Complex 16, Kennedy Space Center. Lovell wears the new lightweight space suit planned for use during the Gemini 7 mission (61756), Astronaut Frank Borman, comand pilot of the Gemini 7 space flight, undergoes suiting up operations in Launch Complex 16 during prelaunch countdown. Medical biosensors are attached to his scalp (61757).
Date Taken 1965-12-04
Gemini 7 prime crew during s …
Title Gemini 7 prime crew during suiting up procedures at Launch Complex 16
Description Astronaut James A. Lovell Jr. (left), Gemini 7 prime crew pilot, talks with NASA space suit technician Clyde Teague during suiting up procedures at Launch Complex 16, Kennedy Space Center. Lovell wears the new lightweight space suit planned for use during the Gemini 7 mission (61756), Astronaut Frank Borman, comand pilot of the Gemini 7 space flight, undergoes suiting up operations in Launch Complex 16 during prelaunch countdown. Medical biosensors are attached to his scalp (61757).
Date Taken 1965-12-04
Donald Slayton talks with ne …
Title Donald Slayton talks with newsmen after examinig damage to Pad 19
Description Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, talks with newsmen after examinig damage to Pad 19, Kennedy Space Center, following liftoff of the Gemini 7 spacecraft on December 4, 1965.
Date Taken 1965-12-05
Kennedy Space Center area as …
Title Kennedy Space Center area as seen from Gemini 7 during Gemini 6 abort
Description Kennedy Space Center area on the east coast of Florida as seen from the Gemini 7 spacecraft, during Gemini 6 abort, on its 118th revolution of the earth.
Date Taken 1965-12-12
Astronaut Neil Armstrong und …
Title Astronaut Neil Armstrong undergoes weight and balance tests
Description Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong undergoes weight and balance tests in the Pyrotechnic Installation Building, Merritt Island, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Date Taken 1966-02-18
Gemini 8 spacecraft launched …
Title Gemini 8 spacecraft launched from Kennedy Space Center
Description The Gemini 8 spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 11:41 A.M., March 16, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-03-16
Gemini 8 spacecraft launched …
Title Gemini 8 spacecraft launched from Kennedy Space Center
Description The Gemini 8 spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 11:41 A.M., March 16, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-03-16
Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Spac …
Title Cape Canaveral, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Description This overhead view of the central eastern shore of Florida shows the Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center (28.5N, 80.5W), where all of the NASA manned space missions originate. Sprinkled along the jutting cape are a number of KSC launch pads from the earlier Mercury, Gemini Apollo and Skylab series of space flights. Merritt Island, just south of Kennedy Space Center, is where the spacecraft liftoff tracking station is located.
Date Taken 1973-06-22
Astronauts Armstrong and Sco …
Title Astronauts Armstrong and Scott during photo session outside KSC
Description Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (left), command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot, the Gemini 8 prime crew, during a photo session outside the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Mission Control Center. They are standing in front of a radar dish.
Date Taken 1966-03-11
Astronauts Armstrong and Sco …
Title Astronauts Armstrong and Scott during photo session outside KSC
Description Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (left), command pilot, and David R. Scott, pilot, the Gemini 8 prime crew, during a photo session outside the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Mission Control Center. Both men are wearing full space suits and carring their helmets.
Date Taken 1966-03-11
Astronauts Stafford and Cern …
Title Astronauts Stafford and Cernan arrive in the White Room atop Pad 19
Description Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan arrive in the White Room atop Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center in preparation for the launch of the Gemini 9 space flight.
Date Taken 1966-06-03
ATDA atop Atlas launch vehic …
Title ATDA atop Atlas launch vehicle launched from Kennedy Space Center
Description An Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) atop an Atlas launch vehicle is launched from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 14 at 10 a.m., June 1, 1966. The ATDA is a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 9-A space mission.
Date Taken 1966-06-01
Gemini Augmented Target Dock …
Title Gemini Augmented Target Docking Adapter during pre-flight checkout
Description The Gemini Augmented Target Docking Adapter (ATDA) during pre-flight checkout in the Kennedy Space Center's Cryogenic Building. The ATDA is being used because the Agena Target Vehicle failed to achieve orbit on May 17th, 1966, causing the postponement of the Gemini 9 mission. The mission (renamed Gemini 9-A) has been rescheduled for May 31st.
Date Taken 1966-05-19
Launch of Gemini 9 spacecraf …
Title Launch of Gemini 9 spacecraft
Description The Gemini 9 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 7:39 a.m., June 3, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-06-03
Launch of Gemini 9 spacecraf …
Title Launch of Gemini 9 spacecraft
Description The Gemini 9 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 7:39 a.m., June 3, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-06-03
Gemini 9 astronauts during s …
Title Gemini 9 astronauts during suiting up for mission
Description Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, Gemini 9-A prime crew command pilot, adjusts sleeve of space suit during suiting up procedures at Launch Complex 16, Kennedy Space Center (34060), Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, pilot of the Gemini 9-A space flight, undergoes suiting up operations during Gemini 9-A prelaunch countdown (34061).
Date Taken 1966-06-03
Fish-eye view of Astronauts …
Title Fish-eye view of Astronauts Stafford and Cernan in the White Room atop Pad 19
Description Fish-eye view of Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan in the Gemini 9 spacecraft while hatches are sealed. They are in the White Room atop Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center.
Date Taken 1966-06-03
Gemini 9 astronauts during s …
Title Gemini 9 astronauts during suiting up for mission
Description Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, Gemini 9-A prime crew command pilot, adjusts sleeve of space suit during suiting up procedures at Launch Complex 16, Kennedy Space Center (34060), Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, pilot of the Gemini 9-A space flight, undergoes suiting up operations during Gemini 9-A prelaunch countdown (34061).
Date Taken 1966-06-03
Fish-eye view of Astronauts …
Title Fish-eye view of Astronauts Stafford and Cernan in the White Room atop Pad 19
Description Fish-eye view of Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan being inserted into the Gemini 9 spacecraft in the White Room atop Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center.
Date Taken 1966-06-03
Agena Target Vehicle atop At …
Title Agena Target Vehicle atop Atlas Launch vehicle launched from KSC
Description An Agena Target Vehicle atop its Atlas Launch vehicle is launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 14 at 10:15 am.m., May 17, 1966. The Agena was intended as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 9 spacecraft. However, since the Agena failed to achieve orbit, the Gemini 9 mission was postponed.
Date Taken 1966-05-17
Astronauts Young and Collins …
Title Astronauts Young and Collins beside suiting trailer during preflight activity
Description Astronauts John W. Young (right), command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, the Gemini 10 prime crew, stand beside the Launch Complex 16 suiting trailer during preflight activity at the Kennedy Space Center.
Date Taken 1966-07-01
Astronauts Young and Collins …
Title Astronauts Young and Collins outside KSC Mission Control Center
Description Astronauts John W. Young (left), command pilot, and Michael Collins, pilot, the Gemini 10 prime crew during a photo session for the press outside the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Mission Control Center. Both men are wearing their space suits including helmets. Behind them is a large radar dish.
Date Taken 1966-07-16
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle during prelaunch preparations at Complex 14
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 3:39 p.m., July 19, 1966. The Agena will be a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 10 space flight.
Date Taken 1966-07-18
Launch of the Gemini 10 spac …
Title Launch of the Gemini 10 spacecraft
Description The Gemini 10 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 5:20 p.m., July 18, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-07-18
Astronaut Richard Gordon pra …
Title Astronaut Richard Gordon practices attaching camera to film EVA
Description Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., prime crew pilot for the Gemini 11 space flight, practices attaching to a Gemini boilerplate a camera which will film his extravehicular activity (EVA) outside the spacecraft. The training exercise is being conducted in the Astronaut Training Building, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Date Taken 1966-08-10
Laundh of Gemini 11 spacecra …
Title Laundh of Gemini 11 spacecraft from Launch Complex 19
Description The Gemini 11 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 7:42 a.m., September 12, 1966. The liftoff photograph is framed by the sides of the lowered erector.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Launch of Agena Target Docki …
Title Launch of Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop Atlas launch vehicle
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched fromt the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 14 at 6:05 a.m., September 12, 1966. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 11 spacecraft.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Launch of Gemini 11 spacecra …
Title Launch of Gemini 11 spacecraft from Launch Complex 19
Description The Gemini 11 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 7:42 a.m., September 12, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-09-12
Liftoff of the Gemini 12 spa …
Title Liftoff of the Gemini 12 spacecraft
Description Liftoff of the Gemini 12 spacecraft, launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 3:46 p.m., November 11, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-11-11
Launch of the Gemini 12 spac …
Title Launch of the Gemini 12 spacecraft
Description Gemini 12 spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 3:46 p.m., November 11, 1966.
Date Taken 1966-11-11
Agena Target Docking Vehicle …
Title Agena Target Docking Vehicle launched from KSC
Description An Agena Target Docking Vehicle atop its Atlas launch vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 14 at 2:08 p.m., November 11, 1966. The Agena served as a rendezvous and docking vehicle for the Gemini 12 spacecraft.
Date Taken 1966-11-11
Cape Canaveral and Kennedy S …
Title Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Description This single view of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center, Florida (28.5N, 80.5W), shows the layout of the entire Kennedy Space Center in minute detail. All of the early Mercury and Gemini series launch facilities can be seen at the hook of the Cape. At the north end of the space center where the newer Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle series facilities are located, the vehicle assembly building, two launch pads and landing strip are easily seen.
Date Taken 1989-05-08
Pre Capture view of Intelsat …
Title Pre Capture view of Intelsat VI Over Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Description In this pre-capture view of the Intelsat VI communications satellite over Kennedy Space Center, Florida (28.0N, 80.0W), the disabled satellite can be seen in a decaying orbit over the KSC launch complex. On the ground, both the older Mercury and Gemini series launch complexes can be seen south of the cape and the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle series launch complexes are north of the cape.
Date Taken 1992-05-16
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