These aerospace contractor films cover so much more of the testing & operational details regarding the space vehicles (for orbital & Moon flights) than any of the media presentations "for public consumption" would have ever done. The type & depth of information in these films was probably mainly for engineers & technicians that were part of the space program, or engineering colleges.
What stands out to me is that so much more than the capsule and rocket had to be designed and built. What a gigantic effort had to come together to be successful .
I occasionally watch the videos of the space program today. It is neat stuff and all. The US of A is really making good progress in many programs. The new manned capsules look like the first class cabin in a major airline. Even 2001-ish. But I can sometime spend hours binge-watching the 1950 and 1960 aerospace programs. There is something “romantic” about the X-15, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs that we lost along the way.
Awesome documentary and a wonderful description of how complex a program the pre-Apollo Gemini program was. From the perspective of the technology of today it is incredible to see how the technicians of those days used slide rules and all of the technical drawings were completed by hand. It is also incredible to see the extent and nature of the testing that took place. The one awful thing was to see tobacco pipes and cigars being smoked in meetings; that's one thing I don't miss regarding those days!
There is more said in this film than most will ever understand. It's a record, a tip of the hat to future generations of people who are privileged enough to be allowed to peel back all the layers of knowledge and reveal ultimate truth. RIP Gus Grisham. RIP Neil Armstrong. Buz Adrian is already being painted as senile as a precaution, even though that man is still as sharp as a tack. The truth always finds a way to reveal itself. And it will.
Mine as well! He was a mechanical engineer working on gyroscopes and guidance projects with Honeywell. His teams designed systems for Minute Man missiles, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and general aviation applications. He seemed to know the answer to any question I could think of as a kid!
Imagine if the USSR had made mini documentaries like these at all crucial junctures of their spaceflight program! Would have a lot more to learn about.
Okay, you guys are going to have to correct the year you noted of this NASA movie from 1963 to *1965*. The corrections need to be made in both the video title and video description. The movie made reference to the Gemini 3 flight in the past tense-that flight was on March 23, *1965*.
Also, they took the Gemini capsule to Cape Kennedy in this video. It was Cape Canaveral until after Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, and it wasn't officially renamed until January 1964, so even that footage narration was at least 1964.
Two guys in flammable space suits, soaking in pure oxygen for a couple of hours pre launch. The Titan 2 oxidizer was red fuming nitric acid....and no escape tower. If they had resorted to the ejection seats, you have to think that they would have come out of the capsule like flaming fireballs. Courage? You needed a ton of it in those days....
I still find it incredible that a man can sit in that tiny capsule for 14 days, such as Borman & Lovell did on Gemini 7, and not go completely insane, haha!! Holy shit that's a long time!! At least in Apollo, one could move around a little.
Now imagine trying to take a dump in there, floating just off the seat trying to tape a ziplock bag to your @ss, with another guy sitting 6 inches away from you, and of course anything that "got away" would be drifting around in there for days, and of course you gotta eat in there, sleep in there, and breathe in there... Why they said, "it was like living in a trash can for two weeks"... Later! OL J R :)
About 15 years ago, I got to sit in a boilerplate Gemini at Goddard. I'm 6' 2", and even with me in my street clothes and the seat padding removed, they could not have closed the hatch without my head getting in the way. It's why all the early astronauts were fairly short.
I always watch the titan Gemini launches and think they look like a backwards step in technology from the mercury atlas. Not sure why. Anyway, wonderful footage. So happy we have these archives available.
Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.
McDonnell Aircraft, the prime contractor for Gemini, later merged with Douglas Aircraft Company and became McDonnell Douglas, today a Boeing heritage company.
And yet overlook the common knowledge that sparks cause fire in oxygen rich environments? 😅 You don't feel like this film reeks of over competition? Excusing a mistake before deliberately allowing it to happen? 🙄
@@booklover6753 plus the families have all said there were cia (oss?) personnel all over the facility, according to nasa staff who were there that day.
A modern version would go like this, Big touch screen monitors are installed and the astronaut plugs in a usb with all flight information after entering the capsule.
As either an industry, contractor, NASA, or government insider... these films really weren't for the general public, but were to inform stakeholders in those organizations of the details or plans for the program so they could get a wider and more informed view of how the program and systems and operations worked. Later (probably significantly later) these videos might have been made available to museums or for other such "public exhibitions". Later! OL J R :)
This is the absolutely most exciting times of the space race. Anything could happen in the next 10 seconds era. We were really going to go and visit the vastness of everywhere else in existence, frightening, fascinating and totally unknown, maybe see god far far off. Or something worse. Who knew? Now we just walk around looking at our frigging phones. Dull dull dull. The worse was always here. Religion.
The official name change from Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy didn't occur until November 28, 1963, by an Executive Order by LBJ. 6 days after JFK's assassination. If the film was created in March 1963, perhaps the narration was changed after that date?
But do you think they tested it?? LOL:) This was the fallacy of the shuttle program-- they thought once you got the thing up and running, it'd be as simple as a brief checkout, mate everything up again, refuel and resupply it and do whatever minor refurbishment was needed, load up and go again a week later (which was the ORIGINAL plan for shuttle, back when they had 50 flights a year as goal, after they realized they'd have to pare that down from the original 70 flights a year they started off planning for, which was utterly and completely unrealistic...) They figured they could build a spacecraft like a Piper Cub-- dump some avgas in it, do a walk around, jump behind the stick and give all the controls a wiggle test, and then take off and go. Spacecraft are too complicated and too highly engineered and brittle for that type of approach to ever work... Later! OL J R :)
So they checked all systems before each of flight carefully but during Gemini missions there were dozens or even hundreds of bigger and smaller malfunctions.
That's the thing with bleeding edge technology-you can test everything you can think of but actually using it always brings up issues. Also, given the nature of the tech at the time, it's possible for things to work during testing, but not continue working for the entire flight.
@@almostfm i was in the aircraft industry for 3 decades. It’s still like that. Humans are fallible. Airplanes crash. Elon’s rockets blow up occasionally.
When you look at all the manpower and complexity that went into just gemini, which was nowhere near as complex as apollo, it makes the hoaxers claims seem laughable
Gus who killed in the Apollo 1 fire we actually heavily involved in Gemini design(the "Gusmobile") and flew Gemini 3 along with John Young. 100% O was used in the Apollo CMD module cabin still during Apollo after the fire but in flight not on the ground/during tests(pure O was breathed during the tests through the PGAs(suits) loops). The pressurization was changed to vent during lift off to eliminate N in the cabin by the time the crew would remove their launch suits- crews prebreathed O which is why you see them carrying an O supply out with them in 'suitcases' to the launch pad.
What an incredibly talented and competent group of Engineers, Mechanics, and Technicians.
Now that's thorough testing!
These aerospace contractor films cover so much more of the testing & operational details regarding the space vehicles (for orbital & Moon flights) than any of the media presentations "for public consumption" would have ever done. The type & depth of information in these films was probably mainly for engineers & technicians that were part of the space program, or engineering colleges.
What stands out to me is that so much more than the capsule and rocket had to be designed and built. What a gigantic effort had to come together to be successful .
Yeah, not alot of people think about the logistics and infrastructure that goes on "behind the scenes."
I love science and technology.
I occasionally watch the videos of the space program today. It is neat stuff and all. The US of A is really making good progress in many programs. The new manned capsules look like the first class cabin in a major airline. Even 2001-ish. But I can sometime spend hours binge-watching the 1950 and 1960 aerospace programs. There is something “romantic” about the X-15, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs that we lost along the way.
Awesome documentary and a wonderful description of how complex a program the pre-Apollo Gemini program was. From the perspective of the technology of today it is incredible to see how the technicians of those days used slide rules and all of the technical drawings were completed by hand. It is also incredible to see the extent and nature of the testing that took place. The one awful thing was to see tobacco pipes and cigars being smoked in meetings; that's one thing I don't miss regarding those days!
Amazing how similiarly things are run today, aircraft or spacecraft.
love these contents.
Wow!.. thanks fir for this... I saw Gemini 12 on tour here in NZ 👍🇳🇿
How beautiful, this gives a nice picture of the development of space travel. very interesting
There is more said in this film than most will ever understand. It's a record, a tip of the hat to future generations of people who are privileged enough to be allowed to peel back all the layers of knowledge and reveal ultimate truth. RIP Gus Grisham. RIP Neil Armstrong. Buz Adrian is already being painted as senile as a precaution, even though that man is still as sharp as a tack.
The truth always finds a way to reveal itself. And it will.
Grissom..😊❤
Since the March 23rd, 1965 flight of Gemini 3 is included, this film was produced in 1965, not 1963.
But still, a very interesting film.
My grandpa was an engineer on the Gemini projects.
Chip Olmstead looks to me at this late date that once skinny ties went away everything went to shit.
Great...
Mine as well! He was a mechanical engineer working on gyroscopes and guidance projects with Honeywell. His teams designed systems for Minute Man missiles, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and general aviation applications. He seemed to know the answer to any question I could think of as a kid!
Great. I'm so glad these films were made. Thanks!
Imagine if the USSR had made mini documentaries like these at all crucial junctures of their spaceflight program! Would have a lot more to learn about.
I love the voice recordings now today everything is in scene with overdrive background music .
Yep, the soft static behind the narration is what makes it for me. Can't stand today's over the top editing eith crazy audio and out of plane music.
Okay, you guys are going to have to correct the year you noted of this NASA movie from 1963 to *1965*. The corrections need to be made in both the video title and video description. The movie made reference to the Gemini 3 flight in the past tense-that flight was on March 23, *1965*.
Also, they took the Gemini capsule to Cape Kennedy in this video. It was Cape Canaveral until after Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, and it wasn't officially renamed until January 1964, so even that footage narration was at least 1964.
I noted a similar discrepancy!
Two guys in flammable space suits, soaking in pure oxygen for a couple of hours pre launch. The Titan 2 oxidizer was red fuming nitric acid....and no escape tower. If they had resorted to the ejection seats, you have to think that they would have come out of the capsule like flaming fireballs. Courage? You needed a ton of it in those days....
They will soon learn with Apollo1.
Super video! I applauded for $5.00 👏👏
Wow, thanks. This will help us continue to preserve rare films...
It would have been a thrill to be a technician who got to sit in the spacecraft during the checkout, knowing it was going to carry astronauts shortly.
Great film. Thanks.
The final
Project
Mercury flight was that of
Leroy
Gordon
Cooper,
Jr.
I still find it incredible that a man can sit in that tiny capsule for 14 days, such as Borman & Lovell did on Gemini 7, and not go completely insane, haha!! Holy shit that's a long time!! At least in Apollo, one could move around a little.
Patience is a virtue... :D
Ya gotta think that is why they paired them again on Apollo 8
Now imagine trying to take a dump in there, floating just off the seat trying to tape a ziplock bag to your @ss, with another guy sitting 6 inches away from you, and of course anything that "got away" would be drifting around in there for days, and of course you gotta eat in there, sleep in there, and breathe in there... Why they said, "it was like living in a trash can for two weeks"... Later! OL J R :)
About 15 years ago, I got to sit in a boilerplate Gemini at Goddard. I'm 6' 2", and even with me in my street clothes and the seat padding removed, they could not have closed the hatch without my head getting in the way. It's why all the early astronauts were fairly short.
All astronauts were psychologically screened to ensure they could endure such a mission.
Impressive!
I always watch the titan Gemini launches and think they look like a backwards step in technology from the mercury atlas. Not sure why.
Anyway, wonderful footage. So happy we have these archives available.
Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference.
I think Atlas had reliability issues.
The final
American astronaut to travel into space alone was
Leroy
Gordon
Cooper,
Jr.
Cape Kennedy in march 1963? Isn’t it Cape Canaveral then?
McDonnell Aircraft, the prime contractor for Gemini, later merged with Douglas Aircraft Company and became McDonnell Douglas, today a Boeing heritage company.
Yup! And the McD corporate culture corrupted Boeing shortly afterwards.
Maybe Boeing management should be forced to watch this film... :-)
The first
American two person space flight was
Gemini
Three on
March twenty third, nineteen sixty five.
The sixth and final manned
Mercury spaceflight happened in
May, nineteen sixty three.
In summary, they test everything.
... a lot of times over and over again
And yet overlook the common knowledge that sparks cause fire in oxygen rich environments? 😅 You don't feel like this film reeks of over competition? Excusing a mistake before deliberately allowing it to happen? 🙄
@@dandeeteeyem2170 That fire was a result of engineering arrogance and an improperly calculated risk.
@@booklover6753 yeah I guess.. I'm pretty pessimistic when it comes to things the cia (oss) were capable of back then... 😏
@@booklover6753 plus the families have all said there were cia (oss?) personnel all over the facility, according to nasa staff who were there that day.
A modern version would go like this, Big touch screen monitors are installed and the astronaut plugs in a usb with all flight information after entering the capsule.
The space industry has plenty of big balls. This is proof 6:32
lol
Besides the title problems you were able to synch the time stamps! Well almost synched.
I've long been curious - back in that time, where would one see these films?
As either an industry, contractor, NASA, or government insider... these films really weren't for the general public, but were to inform stakeholders in those organizations of the details or plans for the program so they could get a wider and more informed view of how the program and systems and operations worked. Later (probably significantly later) these videos might have been made available to museums or for other such "public exhibitions". Later! OL J R :)
luke strawwalker Ah, alright. Thanks. 👍
Great question.
This is the absolutely most exciting times of the space race.
Anything could happen in the next 10 seconds era.
We were really going to go and visit the vastness of everywhere else in existence, frightening, fascinating and totally unknown, maybe see god far far off.
Or something worse. Who knew?
Now we just walk around looking at our frigging phones.
Dull dull dull.
The worse was always here. Religion.
Analog , what could possibly go wrong.
Analog systems or digital systems it can all fail, nothing we built is 100% full proof
@@firestar7188ummm nope you have digital and analog…. And being that this is a space program with communication, analog will give you promise
The official name change from Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy didn't occur until November 28, 1963, by an Executive Order by LBJ. 6 days after JFK's assassination. If the film was created in March 1963, perhaps the narration was changed after that date?
Born in '60, watched all the space race stuff. true space cadet.
Here's a drinking game. Every time he says the word "test"...breathe.
I took your advise and did Tequila shots, and when he used the word testing I slammed a beer instead. I made it to 8;53 then passed out in my chair.
Inside the atmosphere in not going out
how comprehensive?
Tests were conducted. Tests! Tests! TESTS!!!!!
But do you think they tested it?? LOL:)
This was the fallacy of the shuttle program-- they thought once you got the thing up and running, it'd be as simple as a brief checkout, mate everything up again, refuel and resupply it and do whatever minor refurbishment was needed, load up and go again a week later (which was the ORIGINAL plan for shuttle, back when they had 50 flights a year as goal, after they realized they'd have to pare that down from the original 70 flights a year they started off planning for, which was utterly and completely unrealistic...) They figured they could build a spacecraft like a Piper Cub-- dump some avgas in it, do a walk around, jump behind the stick and give all the controls a wiggle test, and then take off and go. Spacecraft are too complicated and too highly engineered and brittle for that type of approach to ever work... Later! OL J R :)
So they checked all systems before each of flight carefully but during Gemini missions there were dozens or even hundreds of bigger and smaller malfunctions.
That's the thing with bleeding edge technology-you can test everything you can think of but actually using it always brings up issues. Also, given the nature of the tech at the time, it's possible for things to work during testing, but not continue working for the entire flight.
@@almostfm i was in the aircraft industry for 3 decades. It’s still like that. Humans are fallible. Airplanes crash. Elon’s rockets blow up occasionally.
1965!!!
then came Apollo 1 where they apparently forgot all the safety checks and testing -- NASA never quite learned its lesson regarding testing and safety.
3:49 maluco desenhando e personal cientistas em geral
The things a nation must do to keep its nerds busy.
Of course, nerds (of all kinds) are why we've had cool things like computers, manned spaceflight, and the 426 Hemi.
We have internet
Still dont know electricity
The 'German-i' programme.
When you look at all the manpower and complexity that went into just gemini, which was nowhere near as complex as apollo, it makes the hoaxers claims seem laughable
In 1958 they sent a satellite
Very basic
:-)
All this time, these guys are breathing that 100% pure oxygen that killed the Apollo Astronauts. :/
Gus who killed in the Apollo 1 fire we actually heavily involved in Gemini design(the "Gusmobile") and flew Gemini 3 along with John Young. 100% O was used in the Apollo CMD module cabin still during Apollo after the fire but in flight not on the ground/during tests(pure O was breathed during the tests through the PGAs(suits) loops). The pressurization was changed to vent during lift off to eliminate N in the cabin by the time the crew would remove their launch suits- crews prebreathed O which is why you see them carrying an O supply out with them in 'suitcases' to the launch pad.
The american nasa freud
Never went outside earth
And now to the moon
A joke
Not the moon now mars
lmao