GEMINI 3 Launch to Staging [HD source] (1965/03/23)
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- Complete sequence of Gemini 3 launch including 1st stage separation (at 2:43 ). Some crowd and control room images were used to make up for a few seconds of non existing footage.
Separation footage from the second stage is also from a previous mission (Gemini 2 perhaps), but is similar to what happened on Gemini 3.
The footage is presented at real-speed, with synchronized audio from NASA mission control and a Titan II launch.
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown.
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Thank you so much for posting this, my father was the helo pilot of HS-57 that pulled Grissom and Young from the ocean and flew them and back to the Intrepid. He passed away April of 2014 at 82. He had the yellow rescue yolk signed by them and the helicopter crew, I don't know what became of it, he said years ago he planned to donate it to the DC Navy Yard museum or the naval museum at Pensacola. I have his set of flight log books and this day is entered no different than any other routine flight, lists the flight code as 1Q5, with CVS-11 in the remarks. I was born 3 months later.
Thanks! It's great to know that!
Thank you for the memories of your father and the very important work he did. I was born in 1960. My father was also an officer. He died in 2006 at the age of 78 .
In the 80s and 90s, I was very interested in the history of the development of space programs of the USSR and the USA. I have articles from Soviet newspapers of that time with photos and about the Gemini 3 flight. I want to say that all the articles are written kindly. Despite the rivalry in the so-called space race between our countries, the Soviet press wrote respectfully about all NASA programs. In 1995, in the year of the 30th anniversary of the Gemini 3 flight, I wrote a letter about my passion for space topics to John Young and to my joy he sent me an autographed photo of himself as a souvenir. I wish you all the best from the bottom of my heart. Saint Petersburg, Russia.
@sergei6572 Hi Sergei, thank you for sharing your passion about space exploration. Times are so different now, one day I hope to finally visit Russia, hopefully relationships between our countries improve soon.
I love when flat earthers say this is CGI, like even now we cant make CGI look that good and you think 60 years ago they had that, sure bud.
Flat earthers are simple minded. Try the 911 conspiracy theorist...a different breed altogether.
I really think flat earthers are trolls. There's no other explanation that makes sense
@@tplus3017
911 conspiracy theories have some grounding in plausibility, at the bubble-gum stretched least. Moon conspiracies are pure, utter fantasies.
It’s not about making it look good. It’s about making it look sufficiently bad that it looks like it came from the 60’s. The special effects that were available at the time were terrible. It’s why Star Wars was such a huge breakthrough. Nothing had done visual effects like that before
@@punman5392 Dude this was released in the 60s NO SHIT IT LOOKS LIKE IT CAME FROM THE 60S
Only thing missing is the sound of the turbo pumps starting up before the ignition. Love that sound. It's like the sound of a Merlin engine in a P-51 Mustang. Distinctive.
Woooop
No, it was there, right at the very start. It was just very quiet.
(tire screech sound intensifies)
Aesthetically the most beautiful launch system ever!
My favorite part of any launch is staging and this is a Great view of the infamous Gemini fireball at staging that all the Gemini guys talk about at 2:44. It momentarily engulfs the entire second stage.
Excellent job!
Gus Grisson, John Young and a corn beef sandwich...The Gem of this new ocean. Remember like it was yesterday.
I was on the USS Intrepid for the recovery of the Molly Brown. Such a thrill
Gus always sounded like he was going out on a fishing boat on a Sunday ..
Incredible Footage ‼️👍🤯
I have the “Titan Missle Museum “ about 12 miles away from me and am glad I never seen one of those launched. As powerful as it was it is hard to believe that that was only the second stage power of the “Saturn V Rocket “ soon to be launched just about two years later. That’s when the nation motto was :We can Do It” to today’s “I don’t want to because it hurts my feelings “…😢!
Have a great day!
Nice job!
IMO... The time the two absolute greatest flew together.
Holy crap, the upper stage shoots off like a bullet! I always knew Titan's upper stage could haul ass, but god damn.
The footage from the second stage comes from a previous flight (Gemini 2 I guess) and is presented at the mentioned real speed. Matches well with the tracking footage, so I guess the frame rate calculations are spot on ;)
The G-forces sustained by the crews at this point were borderline brutal (+9G). Even for former test pilots, it was harsh. The Titan got to orbit almost 2 min faster then the Saturn, which pulled a more 'civilized' ~7G.
@@christopherharmon2433 9+ Gs! that's blackout territory! Wow!
The Titan II wasn’t built for comfort, it was built to put a “city buster” over Moscow & Leningrad as rapidly as possible.
TG I never saw a Titan II launch when I lived in Kansas!
@@jimdake6632 I pulled a lot of Titan II crew alerts from 1978-1987 in Arkansas. We succeeded in our mission!
The fireball the astronauts talked about during staging was basically a flash on their windows.
You have to remember that the Titan II rocket used for Gemini was actually an ICBM - a missile - repurposed (slightly) for manned space flight.
Titan II ICBMs were on alert until 1987......a great, great weapon system.
The Redstone used in the Mercury sub-orbital program was a SRBM (short range ballistic missile) and the Atlas used in the Mercury orbital program was also a repurposed ICBM. It wasn't until Apollo that the astronauts were riding purpose-built rockets.
1 week after my birthday. Cool!
NASA on this mission agreed to the name Molly Brown after rejecting the name Titanic for obvious reasons.
Well, that would be something if Gus named his spacecraft titanic. He didn't know this would be his last spaceflight. It would had been a bad idea to name his spacecraft Titanic knowing his fate 1 year later.
Wasn't this the reason Nasa went away from naming spacecraft until the Apollo program?
Yes it was.
@@foxmccloud7055 are you talking about the British ocean liner, or the name in general?
The ocean liner.
Several days earlier, the soviets walked in space when Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space.
And almost last when his suit swelled up.
I was a boy when Gemini was flying and it spoiled me for all future spaceflight programs. It flew 10 manned launches in just 19 months. There was alway another flight coming up in a couple of months. The Gemini spacecraft is still my favorite looking one, the crew were seated like fighter pilots, looking straight forward thru the cockpit windows.
I was in the 1st grade when Gemini 3 launched, and a 3rd grader when the last Gemini mission flew. Gemini was the workhorse of the U.S. space program, sandwiched between the cold war urgent heroism of Mercury, and the spectacular history of Apollo. In Gemini, the U.S. caught and passed up the Soviets in the race. It's flights were multi-day, meaning the public fit the news of the flights in around their work, school and families. Very different from the nation being passionately in front of their TV sets for Mercury missions..
And as you noted, the crew was seated at angles to each other. That was fine in orbit, but Wally Schirra said the hours in the capsule while on the launch pad were uncomfortable, because each astronaut was leaning unevenly on one buttock. Amazing the minute details that have come out in recent years.
@@brianarbenz1329 So launch delays were a pain in the ass? :)
Gemini truly was the workhorse that paved the way for Apollo. Everything that Apollo needed to do for rendezvous and docking was proven out on Gemini first. Along with many other things.
The second stage shot off like....like a rocket!
Gus Grissom became the first person to return to space.
the hotstaging is so fucking cool.
57th anniversary of this flight today.
Cool
I wonder if Spacex do the “go/no go” around the room thing. Or is it all automated now and humans aren’t needed to make those decisions?
For things like weather and range safety there's human decision, but the rest is automated I think.
SpaceX never will be wooow like Gemini or Saturn V.
SpaceX still do a Go/No-Go poll before launch.
They have a go/no go poll but IIRC there are fewer people on the net. There is a moment when the flight controller says "we are go for launch" at the one minute mark. The onboard flight control computer takes over then and keeps going unless overridden by a human in Launch Control. But yes, the whole sequence leading up to launch is more automated now.
Grissom was a Purdue engineer test pilot Air Force Lt. Col
Wow, the staging popped and kicked so fast. Is there any video showing a more close-up view of the staging event? Footage of the Titan staging has been so difficult to find, and my Google-Fu is not strong
Not that I know about. Perhaps on some development reports, but don't think the quality would be any better.
Here the stating is shown in real time so it's quite fast :)
@@RetroSpaceHD Darnit. It often feels like Gemini gets treated as the bastard stepchild of the NASA manned programs, and it breaks my heart. Gemini was such an amazing program and accomplished so much
@@k1productions87 There's some more Gemini content that I'll upload in the future, but yes, it's a bit overlooked.
There's this video of the staging from onboard the second stage? czcams.com/video/PBkZNMM_IUg/video.html
Amperzand I think that’s of the AJ-5 variant of the LR-91, not very sure but I think all GLVs used the AJ-7 version
try Gemini 6 launch please.
Do a pre-flight checklist!!!!!!
What do you suggest? A video showing what buttons must be pressed ?
@@RetroSpaceHD lol 😂
@@RetroSpaceHD just press m and press "pre flight checklist"
There is a Titan booster (not sure if it is a 1 or a 2....2 I think....) at the nuclear museum in Albuquerque. It is so small compared to what I always thought it was...watching videos of various launches thru the years. Each engine bell is only a meter or so in diameter. As a kid I figured they were 20 feet or more across, each one! With the rocket body several dozen feet across! TV doesn’t give scale of size, I suppose!
Gemini is small. You easily can picture two guys sitting side by side at the top of the rocket and that will give you scale.
..same effect on me when I saw a Titan for the first time on a gas station in Georgia...
Hard to get a good idea of a size scale watching on a 17" B&W TV, lol. Plus, as a 10 year old kid everything looked big.
wheres the bwooop! at liftoff?
It's there at liftoff but not too loud. I try to use quiet recordings so that they don't interfere with mission communications.
@@RetroSpaceHD oh ok that makes sense
I never realized until just now that the Titan II has an exposed gap in the interstage.
The exposed gap is reserved because the Titan II hot stages (otherwise known as "Fire in the Hole" staging).
@@foxmccloud7055 Yeah, the Russians do this on a lot of their rockets, but I never realized it was like this on Gemini.
The N1 and Long March also hot stage.
Titan II......
Gus Grissom Apollo 1 sad
Sorry but I think this puts the SpaceX Falcon booster to shame!
But it's not a smooth ride. It uses their ICBM guidance, which is bang-bang analog, making for a very rough ride. Falcon 9 has the Titan beat hands down in that department. Plus the environmental factor, Titan used nitrogen tetroxide and Aerozine 50, a nasty combination that required wearing full pressure suits when handling them.
not really, the Falcon 9 is much more fuel efficient and doesn't use nasty fuels.
@@budmeister RP-1 (kerosene) is a nasty fuel. Falcon uses RP-1.
@@dalethelander3781 hypergolic fuel is even worse and is highly carcinogenic
Crewed Falcon 9 is insane, the falcon 9 is twice as tall as the Titan, and lands
Gemini is unbelievably aesthetic though
MaxQ before MaxQ was way cool.
All the different voices playing in two different ears at once makes me dizzy
White men, dark hair, white shirts