Sunday, January 19, 2025

The Explorers' Club, № MLXIX

Operation AXIOM: The Space Race—The 60th Anniversary of Gemini 2
19 January 1965: Gemini 2 lifted off from Florida's Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, with an unnamed Gemini spacecraft atop a Titan II G.L.V. rocket; pallets of flight instrumentation were installed in place of the crew couches; the mission objective was to evaluate & certify the Gemini capsule's heat shield; the suborbital flight was successful & the capsule was recovered by the U.S.S. Lake Champlain.
Commentary: The Gemini capsule, SC-2, was reflown during OPS 0855 (3 November 1966), the only flight of the U.S. Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory project.
The Wayback Machine Tour of Project Gemini
№ MXXI: The 60th Anniversary of Gemini 1
№ DCCXXXIX: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini 3 — Gus Grissom & John Young
№ DCCLIII: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini IV — Jim McDivitt & Ed White
№ DCCLXVI: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini V, Part I — Gordon Cooper & Pete Conrad
№ DCCLXVIII: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini V, Part II
№ DCCLXXIX: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini VI, Prelude
№ DCCLXXXVII: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini VII, Part I — Frank Borman & Jim Lovell
№ DCCLXXXVIII: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini VI-A, Part I
№ DCCLXXXIX: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini VI-A, Part II — Wally Schirra & Tom Stafford
№ DCCXC: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini VII, Part II
№ DCCCIV: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini VIII — Neil Armstrong & Dave Scott
№ DCCCXVI: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini IX, Prelude
№ DCCCXXI: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini IX-A, Part I — Tom Stafford & Gene Cernan
№ DCCCXXII: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini IX-A, Part II
№ DCCCXXX: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini X — John Young & Michael Collins
№ DCCCXXXIX: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini XI, Part I — Pete Conrad & Dick Gordon
№ DCCCXL: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini XI, Part II
№ DCCCXLVIII: The 55th Anniversary of OPS 0855
№ DCCCL: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini XII, Part I — Jim Lovell & "Buzz" Aldrin
№ DCCCLI: The 55th Anniversary of Gemini XII, Part II

Semper exploro.

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