Launch of Gemini 5 (CBS audio)
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- Launch of Gemini 5 - August 21st 1965. Onboard are astronauts Gordon Cooper (Command Pilot) and Pete Conrad (Pilot). This is the CBS TV coverage (audio only). I have edited some of the stock footage of Gemini 5 including crew transfer and ingress to the spacecraft and some of the launch sequence. The only lengthy video I have of the Gemini 5 launch is included, after which I have set the crew patch to the audio thru to near engine cut off. When I come across the actual footage of this event or more stock footage of the launch through 1st stage cut off I will post it. Apologies for the editing at launch - It has been a long day!
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I still remember the story from my grandma. She said she used to care for horses at horse race stadiums. She met the first man in orbit around Earth, John Glenn, I am still fascinated by the story. He rode her horse in a race and she got a picture with him, still amazing.
Well technically it was Yuri Gagarin but being 3rd sounds kinda odd so we came up with first American in orbit.
At least he was the 5th man ever in space, after Titov, must have been an honor.
The early cosmonauts and astronauts had balls the size of boulders
Autobahn Kenobi Yes not just anyone would say, Yes make me the payload for that ICBM!
Not all of them though.
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I am pretty sure Valentina Tereshkova had humongous ovaries instead.
Actually ICBMs were the most reliable of all rockets developed because they had to work 100% of the time, once fielded, to be a valid deterrent. Compared to later rockets like Saturn V, and even today's rockets, their test programs were much more thorough and more exhaustive with more test launches and engine stand burns.
Damn straight. But if I had been older than four years old, at the time...I would have joined them. Space exploration was my passion, from an early age!
Plus I was born in Houston, Texas...So location, as well!
They were no sooner in orbit than they had trouble with the fuel cell.This was the first flight using the fuel cell.Battery power alone wasn't enough to stay up for 8 days.They had to power down the spacecraft to continue in orbit.The batteries would have kept them up for a few days,but not 8 days.They went into a controlled tumble about one revolution per minute for a while,but they worked out the problem and stayed the full 8 days.This put us past the Russians for the longest space flight.
Pete Conrad referred to this flight as "8 Days in a garbage can". :P
Pete had a hard on against NASA...We met him in a bar in the mid 80's!
born in 57, but loved this stuff. I used to film the TV with my Dad's 8 mm Bell and Howell camera! Yeah I know I was 8 when this launched but I really did do stuff like that at the time. We did not have electronic games, or video stuff. I had reel to reel tap recorders to play with, and stuff like that. Oh and for you young kids, we used rotary dial telephones growing up! Didn't all get push button until oh, 69 or so. I know my best child hood friend's house didn't get one until after that, since I didn't even start playing at his house until I was 11
Nice work posting these - its great knowing recent history is hanging in there, via CZcams and some dedicated folks. When I was a kid, sitting in front of the TV with my footie pajamas, Kix cereal in my lap, Tang by my side. I so wanted to be an astronaut.
Im still amazed how long they lived in such a tiny space. Even a few hours in the capsule I would be getting restless.
I do love the scream of the old Gemini/Titan rockets at start up. Kind of tough to believe they were still operational as ICBMs until the late 80s.
Can you imagine 2 weeks in the same seat?
After the Titan II ICBM was retired in the 1980's, fourteen of the launch vehicles were refurbished and used for military and government space launches out of Vandenberg AFB in the 90's - very early 00's. The last flight occurred in 2003.
Remaining Titan II ICBMs were sent to the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB for scraping. I remember those shiny aluminum cylinders laying out there in the hot Arizona sun.
I just love the screech sound the Titan II made when the turbo pumps were set in motion! The Gemini Program produced some fantastic missions; none better than the Gemini 7 and 6A rendezvous in December 1965.
Titan used stainless steel tanks. The hypergolic fuels required it.
Back in the 1960s these rocket launches were on TV and millions watched. It was a big deal. Also, America was at the peak of its power.
It's cool to see how much the Astrovan has developed.
In fact not much. Still not able fly to the moon again after more than 50 years.....
So awesome! I watched this as an infant! I followed the manned space program until it ended!
It never has ended
@@Seabee203 Ahhhh it kinda did. The shuttle was pretty cool but he manned program is a shell of it's former self. Only now in 2023 are they planning to go back to the moon.
The Artemis program must have you very excited.
I watched all the launches I could when I was a kid (and I am SO glad I did today!). I remember watching this one two days earlier for over four hours before they scrubbed it and came back two days later to watch this successful one. I also remember for hours afterwards wondering if they were going to bring them back because of falling pressure in the fuel cells. They didn't.
I like how Max Q was coincident with breaking the sound barrier. Today, they are close but distinct events.
Jack King, remember that voice sitting in front of the TV when I was a kid.
As a youngster I was so interested in space travel. Those were some of the first books I ever read.
cant hear the "bwoop" turbopump sound but the dining fork and plate.
0:00
Me: "Who's idea was it to put a _covered wagon,_ of all things, on a mission patch?!"
At least the one you showed didn't say "8 Days or Bust" on it.
Gordon Cooper or Pete Conrads father I believe.
They were pioneers.
Thanks for your comments paul - I wwish I had been around then to sit there and watch the flights like you did.
Audio says "T minus 4 minutes and 15 seconds." Video shows Cooper and Conrad getting into the truck. Better step on it, driver!
Fun fact: the astronauts are loading up at pad 16 and taking the Barton FREEeway to pad 19 .
Ohhhh so THAT'S where Porter Robinson got his cover art for the Spitfire EP. You learn something new everyday
Though I was too young to remember the Gemini launches, my parents sat my brother and I down to watch them, and the Apollo launches. I just love those rockets and gantry towers! Those Titan II rockets were just cool!
Equally interesting was the fact that the Air Force had Atlas and Titan I launch facilities located in Nebraska. They were in the form of crypts and silos. It had to have been weird for a farmer to have seen a ballistic missile rise up out of its crypt or silo during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Air force had the Titan first, NASA took it and changed it to carry people.
Nebraska did have Atlas ICBM silos, but not the Titan 1s. Even the Titan II silos were not in Nebraska either (Kansas did have some however). After the Atlas sites were decommissioned, the southwestern part of the Nebraska panhandle became home to some of the Minuteman missiles.
I believe Gemini 5 was the first time CBS (and ABC) had carried a live manned space launch in color.
NBC's first live launch in color was Gemini 4, earlier that Summer.
I believe it wasn't until the Spring of 1965 that a live color TV program could be transmitted from Florida to New York. For over a decade prior to that, the circuit could feed color programs to Florida, but only black-and-white from Florida.
Yes, the Gemini Titan II used Nitrogen Tetroxide and Aerozine 50, a hypergolic oxidizer/fuel combination.
To guarantee ignition of the upper stages... It was an ICBM afterall...
@@CH-pv2rz Hypergolic’s were used because unlike liquid oxygen they were storable at room temperature.
The earlier ICBM’s (like Thor) required a liquid oxygen plant at each launch site.
The US switched to solid fuel ICBM’s after Titan.
Exciting days indeed, a time when our nation exhibited true greatness, with even greater yet to come with Apollo. The dawning of the Space Age was a thrilling-era that never can be replicated---and Cronkite was there every step of the way. The man's entwined with our memories. It's a shame virtually all of the Gemini missions have been forgotten or never even known to have occurred, as prep for the titanic, moon-destined Apollo missions of the approaching future then drawing-nigh. Personally, though still a young child, I very much remember Gemini, though not each individual mission, sorry to say, with the exception of one---the one where for the first time in history a human-being left his cosmic-domicile & "walked" in space, albeit while tethered to the craft. Exciting days, indeed!
The most amazing thing about the Gemini program was how NASA was putting 2 men in space almost every two months from 1965-1966. Now it's more than 2 years between NASA's manned space launches.
I miss that Titan missile..
One like it in Arkansas blew up after an Airman dropped an 8 lb socket down about 90 ft. and punctured the fuel tank a few hours later. See: Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
@@daffidavit that would happen to any missile today if someone dropped a tool against it from 90 feet above. Falcon 9 would also blow up...
A beautiful, svelte girl. While the Saturn V was the big, muscular all American boy.
The Saturn V seemed to take a lifetime to clear the tower compared to the Gemini rockets.
So crazy that they strapped themselves into something originally designed to carry a nuclear warhead! Obviously there's no huge difference, a rocket is a rocket, but still, very crazy to think about!
Pete Conrad would go on to the moon on Apollo 12, bring back parts of Surveyor, lead the repair mission to save Skylab, then command a very successful first U.S. stay on the space station.
Genimi was NASA 's overlooked middle child
Vintage Space
Which is a shame because all the really big things happened with Gemini. Maneuvering in space, changing orbits, changing attitude and altitude, planned approach of other crafts, lining up for docking, docking itself, the duration tests, of course the space walks and getting a feel for EVA, navigation in space, lots and lots of technological breakthroughs that were simply a necessity for a moonshot...
Gemini was the workhorse of the moonshot program.
55-years ago today. And I remember. Damn, I'm old.
The Titan rocket was very robust until the started messing around with solid rocket fuel.
This is a Titan II launch vehicle right? Didn't this rocket use hypergolic propellants or am I thinking of something else?
From memory, I think unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide. That orange exhaust cloud was deadly!
The sixth
American astronaut,
Leroy
Gordon
Cooper,
Jr. mare the last and longest
Mercury flight, and was also the
Gemini
Five command pilot.
What happened to the rest of the video of the launch? They followed the missile until it was to far away to see but you cut out right after the post launch roll maneuver...
man I was 6 years old when this was going on!!!!
You still with us friend? Happy 70th or 71st!
Still with us friend? Happy 60th or 61st!
Me too!
Does anyone know more about the unilateral BU-scope used by CBS News on at least several Gemini launches in 1965 and 1966? "That's our powerful BU-scope--long, long-range camera," Walter Cronkite says here at about 1-1/2 minutes into G-T 5 in August 1965. It was made by Boston University but almost no one seems to recall it.
Amazing work!!
Thanks A Rober
T-minus 4 minutes and 50 seconds as they board the van that takes them to the pad? I wonder which astronaut overslept. They must have had Mario Andretti driving the van. ;)
+Nonov Yerbusiness As a matter of fact, this turned out to be Gordon Cooper's last mission because of his lackadaisical attitude while training for it. He was a _fantastic_ pilot, though - he was the only Mercury astronaut who landed the capsule on manual control.
I imagine everyone running for their lives after they finished latching the doors at t-2mins
Yeah, they really cut it short getting to the spacecraft, getting belted in, as well as the closeout crew having to practically run from the white room before it tilted away from the rocket for launch! That crew access tower that they used for Gemini (as well as a similar setup for Mercury), sure takes it's time moving down and laterally away from the capsule and rocket! Another thing, the engines didn't start until T - 0 seconds where everyone would expect full thrust to be occurring and lift off at the same time (it didn't even lift off at 0 seconds)!
It may be the way it’s edited.
Neat to see these Gemini Videos.
4:21 - Not quite the "bwoop" I came for, but close enough.
That APU does make oddest sound as its turbine spins up to speed.
The flight is real and all, but the editing of this video is suspect. That access tower retracts discontinuously, and I do not hear the cool ignition sequence, like with other gemini launches.
Did you read the videos description?
@@lunarmodule5 Yes, and I think I see your point. I did not interpret your notes as suggesting the discontinuities I experienced. It's all understandable now. After you read this reply of mine, feel free to remove my original comment.
It's hard to see Neil going in
the first four minutes of video didn't correspond the count... why did this uploader go the patch when there would plenty of video of the assent??
I'm trying to recreate this in Blender. I have the rocket model down along with the towers next to it.
I'm probably not going to get any answers but how and what exactly is making that Gantry Tower Rotate? Is it built right into the launch pad? Obviously I'm assuming that the entire pad is rollout, but correct me if I'm wrong.
I would search up on the internet but nothing is helping.
Arctic Gaming, I saw your question about the gantry tower and I'll try my best to answer it for you. I believe you were referring to the tower section that pivots at its base to allow for either up or down movement. The top of the tower contained the "White Room" which astronauts would use to enter through the hatch into their Gemini craft. Shortly before launch the entire tower, which was built by the Martin-Marietta Company, would swing downward and away from the Titan II. It was attached through bearings right on the launch pad at Launch Complex 19. If you were to visit Pad 19 today, you can still see most of that tower which is now rusting away and lying on its side. Exactly where it was left following the last launch of Gemini, Gemini 12 in November of 1966. About 10 years ago, the "White Room" was removed from the tower and is now on display I believe at the Rocket Garden at KSC or possibly inside one of the buildings at the Visitors Center. Hope this helps.
On May 27 2020 the Dragon Crew with launch with two astronauts. The tower will go back like the Gemini launch.
Great comment for a great video.
Very nice quality video for news coverage in 1965. A lot was accomplished with the Gemini-Titan Program as a prelude to the Apollo and Skylab Programs using the Saturn I(one) b and V launch vehicles. Unlike the Russians with Soyuz, Mir, etc., we threw it all away by changing course to the shuttle, a great but dangerous and costly vehicle. So now us reinvent the wheel with Orion, Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Dragon and use Russian engines on the ULA Atlas and Orbital/ATK Antares rockets. ??!!
NASA was attempting to lower costs by creating a reusable craft...the Saturn launch vehicles were far too expensive for their dwindling budget, so they invested in the shuttles. Actually, so did Russia with the Buran spacecraft, but the Buran only ever made one unmanned flight. The program was cancelled due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Roscosmos fell back on proven vehicles to continue its work. So to say that the Russians are smart for not switching launch vehicles is a false statement...it was just the cards they were dealt.
Take the NUCLEAR WARHEAD off of an *ICBM* (Titan II), strap a tin can on top, and ride that sucker into Earth orbit! Those were wonderful CRAZY days, and those astronauts had 'nads the size of grapefruit to do this! Hail and Farewell!
My guess would be that while McDonnell Douglas was busy operating and building the gemini capsules it was thought to be better to use another contract for the Apollo capsules. That way no single aerospace manufacturers resources were taxed beyond safe limits.
Go, Titan II!!!!!
More of an El Kabong sound than the beeeeooooooop .....
At 2:45 you can hear someone complaining about some guy pushing stuff around on his desk....
Wonder why Macdonald wasent picked as the contractor for the command modual for apollo?
North American Rockwell won the contract via bidding
born 7n 53 wanted so ad to be an astronaut mother let mexstay home on launch day saw all mercury gemini andapollo launches
Why the wagon logo? Why was a wagon chosen?
Gemini 5 was the first mission to have an insignia patch. Gordon Cooper suggested the image of a covered wagon due to the pioneering nature of the flight and coined the slogan "8 days or bust".
8 Days In A Garbage Can!
...launch on top of a huge Roman candle.
8 days sitting in your own waste! ewwwww
+wesley mccurtain Also known as "the glamour of spaceflight" :-)
is Walter Cronkite voice??
Yes
"8 days or bust"
Is there anyone down range? Is there anyone down range? Is there anyone down range? The firing line is clear! Lock and load 1 each Gemini rocket. Fire when ready!
Why didn't Gemini have an escape system like mercury and Apollo?
They had fighter style ejection seats, less weight than a bulky tower rocket system. Better or worse? Glad they never had to find out.
Scott three years today
Bill never said to this date
gee wiz fuckin' a
Sardar and Tara Singh
8 days or bust
4:16
Gemini 7 y 6A: czcams.com/video/CL5MjwIZLpI/video.html
Rseferino Orbiter Filmmaker excellent presentation - really enjoyed watching - thanks for the heads up
I heard from an extremely reliable source that the Gemini 5 capsule smelled so strong of feces that when the frogmen opened it upon splashdown some started vomiting into the ocean.
Glaube Mut Liebe .
This was the flight that put us past the Russians as far as longest space plight.Gemini 4 was just short of it.It was the first time we used the fuel cell and had a problem with it as soon as they were in orbit.There was talk they might have to come down early,but worked out the problem and they stayed the 8 days.When Gemini 6 lost it.s mission,we did something the Russians did by combining it with Gemini 7,to have 2 manned spacecraft in orbit at the same time.Gemini 6 rendezvoused with Gemini 7
No Wwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrummm? :(
Amazing that we did all this back in the days when we barely had color TV.
We've gotten fat and lazy and too accustomed to mere entertainment.
Roses are red, violets are blue, the part you are looking for is 4:22
(Unless you’re like me, I just watched the whole thing)
NBC's coverage was always superior in my view.. defin not a fan of Cronkite.... for many reasons..
Reverend Felcher: Your grandfather is wrong. Cronkite loved his country as much as his country loved him, and like millions of other Americans decided tens of thousands of our young people were dying in southeast Asia essentially for nothing. He rationally and carefully expressed and explained his doubts about the course we were on. That makes him a patriot and an American hero. Don't let Limbaugh, Hannity, Fox "News" and a bunch of crusty old folks convince you otherwise. You're too young to have your mind ruined by right-wing war-mongering.
+Russell S People like that think avoiding war is unpatriotic, while it was patriotic to send American jobs to communist China and tremendously increasing the unemployment rate.
+Richard Cook Seems your gripe might be with the owners of the factories that moved production overseas. In the immortal words of Mitt Romney, 'corporations are people too, my friend'.
Hannity, Limbaugh, etc represent the America that did this.
Right wing war mongering??? But it was the Democrats who committed troops to SE Asia.
Russell S Kronkite was a Globalist who believed in a one-world Government with “the power to enforce” it’s International Law. He did not believe in national sovereignty and was a champion of George Soros’ “The Crisis of Global Capitalism.”
Kronkite was an elitist Pinko.
It looks miserable in the capsule
Oh come on, they could have put more creativity on the flight badge. Some stars, the rocket, a small NASA logo, a small comet passing by,.......but an old west wooden carriage ain't going to take you to space.
Horrible vid