“PROJECT GEMINI MISSION CONCEPT” 1960s NASA ANIMATED PROMO FILM 66884

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Browse our products on Amazon: This animated NASA educational film describes the Gemini Program Mission concept. The Gemini program took place between NASA’s Mercury and Apollo eras in the mid-sixties. The main objectives included testing long duration flight as well as rendezvous missions. All of the information collected from these missions were to further aid NASA and Department of Defense goals. The film opens with the NASA seal (:12). The opening animation depicts NASA’s desire to send humans to the moon and later to Mars (:36). Engine separation is depicted in orbit in space (1:32). Mid-course correction maneuvers would be utilized in order to conduct a rendezvous (2:16), docking maneuvers and stage keeping (1:48). The Gemini program was considered to be an intermediary step towards getting astronauts to the moon (2:42). Long term duration flight was to be tested (3: