GEMINI 3 Launch to Staging [HD source] (1965/03/23) 

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.

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No, it was there, right at the very start. It was just very quiet.

(tire screech sound intensifies)

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

And almost last when his suit swelled up.

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.

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? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PBkZNMM_IUg.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

What do you suggest? A video showing what buttons must be pressed ?

@@RetroSpaceHD lol 😂

@@RetroSpaceHD just press m and press "pre flight checklist"

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

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.

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

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.