Gemini 11

In a world of modern AI with images that can be reproduced, and you have to go through all kinds of hoops and barriers to prove that it's authentic, what I show you and what you can see back here on this original lithograph, which been tested, and you can get it and look at it and ask Leslie Kean for it or, uh, specifically my associate, Seth Lamancusa, has a docu- He did a little nine-minute video that's on YouTube, and you can find it Seth Lamancusa, L-A-M-A-N-C-U-S-A.

Uh, and it's called Gemini XI UFO, is what he titled it.

And he has a website address in the in- information there with Dropboxes.

You can see all 16,000 frames of the footage from that Dropbox.

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um obviously gemini 11 mission obviously uh you know nasa successfully land uh you know got astronauts into you know space uh you know and they did like space walks and stuff like that so that was all happening at this point in time now um do you well you kind of made a little reference to it but do you know what the vm figures were for these episodes episodes one two three and four

I did have a little luck in my book, Doctor Who, the 60s.

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Collins did make a second spacewalk, but it was difficult, and it was curtailed because of low thruster fuel levels.

Two months later, Dick Gordon on Gemini XI had similar difficulties during his first spacewalk.

Every task took much longer than anticipated, with fatigue and maintaining his body position being major problems.

One objective of the Gemini program had been mastered: the return to Earth was now routinely under computer control, and spacecraft were splashing down in view of their recovery ship.

In addition, astronauts venturing outside the spacecraft had requested handles and handrails.

Gemini IX had nine restraining points.

This had increased to 44 for Gemini XII.

For work at the back of the spacecraft, where specialist items were stored and a workstation had been set up, tailored foot restraints were installed so an astronaut could anchor himself firmly to eliminate the struggle to maintain body position when using a wrench.

It, it's not, you know, pumping some more energy through the rocket boosters or anything like that.

I mean, back in the day when they were flying the Gemini missions, uh, back in the 1960s, in fact, they got even quicker.

So they, they were even quicker to, to, to docking in orbit because the, the quickest they had, they had an Agena target vehicle, which they would go up and practice their, their docking maneuvers.

This was when they were just learning how to dock spacecraft together.

But they'd send this Agena target, uh, vehicle up into orbit, and then 90 minutes later they'd launch a, a, a Gemini spacecraft, uh, into the same orbit and that could catch up quite quickly, right? Just 90 minutes, uh, later.

So Gemini 11 ended up doing it in just 94 minutes, which is even a lot faster than the, the seven hours and 55 minutes we're talking about now.

Yeah.

But, but the, the transit time really comes down to where the ISS is when you launch.