Gemini 3 (Full Mission 1)
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The countdown and launch into orbit of Gemini 3 on March 23rd 1965. Astronaut Gus Grissom is on his second flight and John Young his first (of an eventual 6). I have put together as much video as I could find of the preflight training along with pictures taken preflight. There is some video of the rocket assembly at Pad 19 and suit up activities as well as the pad arrival operations.
Audio is stereo containing seperate tracks for PAO and the ground/Air-to-Air communication loops. It is roughly synched.
Video of launch is limited and is all I have on video and does not start until T minus 2 seconds. Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator is used to show the launch after T+ 1 minute (there is a snippet of staging from the film record). I have tried to use multiple views of the events through portions of the launch.
The video starts at T-30 minutes and ends soon after orbital flight is started.
Audio is VOXEd in places - The gaps are shortened to provide continuity and something to listen to.
This will be the first of a series to cover the entire Gemini 3 mission.
Video/Photos courtesy NASA
Orbiter Spaceflight Simulator is available for free download. - Věda a technologie
Brilliant.
Had he lived, Gus Grissom had a good chance of being the first astronaut on the Moon.
John Young, of course, went on to become the greatest astronaut of all with six missions, including the first Gemini flight, the first Shuttle flight and two Moon missions.
David Howard I forgot which doc, but the other astronauts used to call the Gemini capsule "The Gus Mobile" because he was the only one who did not get his helmet tapped by the hatch while closing it up.
+David Howard Both legendary Astronauts. Gus Grissom, the first man to be assigned to all three original NASA spacecraft (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo), and John Young having flown three separate NASA craft not once, but twice (Gemini III and X, Apollo 10 and 16, and STS-1 and 9).
* Adding to the above that in doing so, John Young flew four different types of NASA spacecraft: Gemini, Apollo CSM, Apollo LM and STS.
@@AustrianAnarchy I'd like to know what documentary said that the hatch had anything to do with the nickname, because that's not why Gemini was called the Gusmobile. Gemini was called the Gusmobile because Grissom had a lot of input into the design of the capsule.
@@AustrianAnarchy Gus also played a notable part in the development of the Gemini spacecraft, if I’m not wrong
I love how they named it the Molly Brown, as in the Unsinkable, lol
they got a lot of flak for naming it that actually, NASA thought it was too on the nose and banned people from naming spacecraft until apollo iirc
I bet it was Gus’ idea!
RIP Gus... RIP John
RIP John Young
Lunarmodule5- your channel is a chest full of treasures for space enthusiasts. Thank you for effort, I hope you won't stop any time soon, man!
First flight of the Gus-mobile.
What a time to be alive! John was one cool cucumber.
The Gemini flights were exciting.
I've always wanted to see an actual tape of the TitanII/Gemini first stage separation. Now I can die happy.
This was the first flight I watched on TV. It launched on my fifth birthday.
WOW!!...I have never seen much of anything on this mission other that very brief highlights....THANK YOU!!
Also want to thank you for quite a few photos that I have never seen....truly appreciate your hard work my friend.
R.I.P. Gus Grissom (1926-1967).
I always liked the beginning just after lift off and just after pitch program when CAPCOM says “Ah, Roger pitch, on your way Molly Brown .”
What an amazing video you have put together. Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing the assembly footage! I don't remember seeing that before.
AustrianAnarchy Welcome !
“That’s one hell of a headache.”
-John Young to Gud Grissom upon witnessing a failed test of the Gemini ejection seats
"That's one hell of a headache.....but a short one!" was the complete quote. Said with typical wry humor!
I was 3 when this flight happened. Thanks so much for the "view"!
The beginning of the storied John Young career. Gemini 3, eventually walked on the moon, and flew the first shuttle flight with Robert Crippen. His big 3 I think. Finally retired in 2004. Passed away in 2018. Godspeed John Young and Gus!.
Thanks for posting these. I'm learning so much :)
You know, I'm just not entirely convinced that this is Gemini Control
I'm sure you'll be coming up with even greater stuff soon. I check your channel weekly and I've never been let down.
God speed my friend, John Young!
I met John at a restaurant in Clear Lake in the early 80"s. What a great American hero!
5 minutes in and I'm hearing a passive-aggressive discussion between flight controllers.
LOL. I knew the guy from Canarvon in that exchange. Coolest guy I ever knew. Zero tolerance for bulls****. He also almost got into a fist fight with one of the Mercury astronauts, the night before a launch, when the astronaut tried to take over his tracking station. You know what NASA did back then with people who wouldn’t put up with crap? They got promoted. Which is how we got to the moon so quickly.
I think it was Young... Seems he had no problem getting attention and breaking rules, even up to carrying his own food on a later flight.
He did things that would get almost any other astronaut grounded, yet he went on to command a trip to the moon.
@@dantyler1558, Deke Slayton (then Director of Flight Crew Operations) gave John his blessings to do so. It was kind of done on the sly, so any reprimand was merely a slap on the wrist.
@@dantyler1558 I think the discussion about the voice checks was between Carnarvon Capcom Dan Hunter and Mission Control's Dutch von Ehrenfried. The astronaut that Hunter had a hard time with was Pete Conrad, because each of them had been told (Hunter by Gene Kranz) that he was to be the Carnarvon Capcom for Gemini 3. It ended up being a power struggle between Chris Kraft, who backed the controllers, and Deke Slayton, who backed the astronauts.
zelmoziggy Yup, that was Dan.
Nice effort to allow an audio history of Gemini 3. Broadcasters filtered out much of the PAO comments.
Gemini as well! Youre doing some great work LM5.
Thanks incargeek - appreciate the comments you make and keep watching - theres the first three Mercury flights around on the channel too if interested. And, Apollo 8 is just around the corner in 2015
This was the last mission to be controlled from the Cape.
All missions coming after this one were controlled from the larger Mission Control center in Houston, which is is still in use today.
You are welcome pearl - glad you liked it - thanks
how can it be filmed like that ?
(i'm not a lunar conspiracist)
Gus Grissom becomes the first person ever to return to space. The first non-rookie.
Never seen footage or photos like this and I've seen many. And seeing the rocket being assembled at the pad was new. I always thought the whole stack was lifted at once.
This flight was the last one for wich the mission control was at launch site. Starting with Gemini 4,once the rocket cleared the launchpad,it was under responsibility of MSFC,also known with it's callsign "Houston". Also during this flight,NASA introduced the "launch breakfast" or "launch dinner",wich remained in use in current US spaceflights launched from Cape Canaveral and KSC,including Apollo and the Shuttle.
I got a question about when the rocket turns east doing the orbital inclination, are the astronauts inside the loop for the turn? Like are their heads toward the ground or are they on the outside of the loop doing a negative G turn?
From Mike Collins' book "Carrying the Fire" when he flew Gemini10 with John Young the Gemini roll program has the ascent to orbit with you flying on your left side.
@@1wwtom that’s strange considering I later heard the windows were used as sort of the horizon/pitch line as a backup.
@@nolancain8792 That was for the Space Shuttle.
First flight of a legend :) thx for the video
+Lextrick you are more than welcome! Lm5
+lunarmodule5 I wonder if you also like astronomy. Do you have a telescope?
I am so sad I didnt get to experience such an great era .i hope there will come a new one and that mankind will focus on something other than war.Thank u for these uploads!
The unsinkable Molly Brown,named by Gus Grissom because of the loss of his Mercury flight where the hatch blew open and the Liberty Bell 7 capsule filled with water and sunk.There was a Molly Brown on board the Titanic and she survived in a life boat.
I was just getting ready to make this same comment. Kind of funny that they would name the capsule Molly Brown.
NASA frowned on that along with the "8 days or bust" motto of G-5.
According to most accounts,she helped lead others to safety on the lifeboats
I love the bwooop
Was that Gemini control? I couldn't tell.
How accurately did the animation follow the changes in attitude during launch and orbital insertion? Looks a bit off to my eye.
When I did these I was guessing a lot - nowadays I try to get them as near to what happened as possible
You're on your way molly brown
Amen!
again, yet another labor of love for the space inthusiast (spelling). thank you.
Several days earlier, the soviets walked in space when Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space.
The only Soviet space films are their space craft being involved in disasters
3:25 - 4:17 I think these little arguments are hilarious ;) Nothing ever gets old :D
Dis Pater yeah - I doubt this would happen today!
Gemini Trivia: This was the only manned Gemini mission not controlled from Houston. At which NASA facility was the flight of GT-3 "controlled"? (Unmanned GT-1 and GT-2 flights were also controlled from there.)
A bit late responding, but I think this was one of the last flights that was controlled completely from Cape Canaveral. After that, the Cape only controlled the launch and handed off to Houston for the actual mission control.
Justin Mailman Bingo!
Fantastic! So hard to get your head around the idea of John Young as a rookie.
I had to listen a few times at 3:48. I thought he said he's sent about ten Twixes!!! Better than a corn beefed sandwich I suppose.
Glad you liked it Simon
@navyman4 It really is Orbiter Space Flight Simulator, not Kerbal
God speed fellas
Gemini Trivia: What chemical in the Titan 2 propellant, seen at liftoff in the exhaust cloud, gives it a distinct orange color?
The Titan II burned a mixture of Aerozene 50 and Dinitrogen Tetroxide in the RL-87 Rocket Engine, which are hypergolic propellants (meaning they ignite upon contact) for the sake of engine simplicity, reliability, and launch readiness (because the Titan II is truly an ICBM that was converted for Gemini).
The Titan II was not the largest or most spectacular rocket ever ridden, but it no doubt gave the most intense and energetic ascent of any rocket ever ridden by man.
Correct!
Hydrazine based propellants burn in air leaving a pink 'smoke', Un-'burned' NTO (N2O4) has fumes with a dark orange color which are not acutally from the NTO itself but NO2 fumes that N2O4 decomposes into. The bright white steam produced at launch from the pad coolant system turns orange in the exhaust from NO2. That particular propellant combination burns with very little visible smoke or vapors at all. Bottom line, the orange color comes round about from the N2O4 oxidizer, and the pinkness comes from the fuel, which as already stated is Aerozene 50 (50/50 mixture of Hydrazine and UDMH).
Where's the "Bwoop"?
The roll program maneuvers on these flights were basically not noticeable from the ground, when compared to the VERY. obvious roll program for the shuttle.
Zoomer30 I have watched and rewatched the launches for Gemini and Apollo and you really do have to watch the vehicle carefully to see it roll, and the shuttle had such a high launch to roll capability and was so much more dynamic than previous boosters - so it is hard to see. That is, I believe, why the boosters were painted the way they were, so that engineers could see the roll and pitch programmes more clearly - its easier to see on HD film
Yep the back bars were so the tracking camera would be able to track it. And the way the shuttle is strapped on the side, gives the eye a clear frame of reference. Even the Falcon 9 is quite subtle with it's roll. (Except the first flight where it did practically a 90° roll right at lift off, guidance error).
When did they bust out the smuggled on sandwich? lol
Right after the smuggled on joint, I'm guessing. I know that I would have brought one or two...or six.
Once they were in orbit.
a good montage
I'm eating a corn beef sandwich as we speak
Lmao
Don Jaksa roger
Mercury was the VW and Apollo was the Cadillac? What would the Space Shuttle be?
flashfast2000 the Semi
This is from a time in our national life when we actually did things and went places.
These days, all we do is travel to the US Capitol and smear faeces on the walls.
NASA eventually settled on the name "Molly Brown" after rejecting the name "Titanic" for obvious reasons.
The pickup truck? Maybe the SUV?
I want to learn about space flight
I feel like going bungee jumping
The Titan used the same fuel as the LEM....hyperbolic fuel. Just mix them and boom....off you go. A clear flame is a characteristic.
Bwoop!
Hypergolic, not hyperbolic.
I found the prelaunch audio to be distracting since it was totally out of sync with the video. For example, at 8:15, the audio says t-9 min, yet the video shows the second stage still on the trailer. Many similar discrepancies.
DS
Gemini/Apollo engineer
Hi DS
Though I take your comments on-board and realise that you, being a Gemini engineer have far more experience of the real thing than I could ever hope to I would like to point out that the pre-launch footage is there just as a visual. I do not have the pre launch countdown footage for this flight and therefore substituted it with some video just so the viewer has something to watch while the audio is heard. It is virtually impossible to synch up audio to video that is relevant if 1. that video is not available or 2. it is only brief. In the case of Gemini 3 the majority of the footage is of the pre launch operations at the Cape and is all thats available. I have had to do this on several other mission videos. It is either this way or cutting out the audio altogether until there is video available. From the reaction I get to these videos I know that the majority of watchers would rather have the audio in - it is part of the historic record (even if the video is not synched to it) and most people like it included. I hope that explains to you why it was done this way. Sorry if it spoiled your enjoyment.
Kind of an a-hole aren't you,man I thought kids were bad.
I really liked it this way. Lots of behind the scenes photos over the tension of a countdown. Just captivating! Kudos lm5
what was the purpose of all NASA project
To send a man to the Moon before the end of the 1960s
Virgil
Grissom was the first
American astronaut to travel into space twice.
12:48 15 seconds
I aa
Glaube Mut Liebe.
KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM!!!!!
Long live Jebediah! lol
Its Gemin-I not gemin-EE, the astronauts dont even say geminee!
You dont say oh look at that pair of Octopee, or there are some Cactee!!
Chris Kraft said Geminee (see czcams.com/video/r2dWnW7aA-0/video.html). That's what most people called it back then.
the original name was "Mercury Mark II" it was changed to" Gemini "before the first test flights began
Its Latin. Hard g, long e sound for I. Everybody says it wrong.
geh-MEN-ee
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