The helmet inside the suit hood.
Here's a Chicago Tribune story about the Gemini 7 crew tracking the launch of a Polaris missile from a submarine submerged off Cape Canaveral on December 6. http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1965/12/07/page/14/article/gemini-7-crew-tracks-polaris-missileJames Lovell and his wife resided in the Chicago area in recent years. He donated some artifacts to Chicago's Adler Planetarium, and helped arrange moving the Gemini 12 capsule there. (Apollo 8 is at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.) Lovell grew up mostly in Milwaukee. - Ed Kyle
This page has footage of the launch: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=896_1263437643. I can't get beyond the first 40 seconds of the video, but that's long enough to see a trail developing.
Quote from: Proponent on 12/06/2015 12:21 pmThis page has footage of the launch: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=896_1263437643. I can't get beyond the first 40 seconds of the video, but that's long enough to see a trail developing.The video won't load for me at all. Sits and spins and then pops up a tiled selection of other videos -- mostly about Ben Franklin and getting drunk. (??!!)FYI.
I had never heard that VII could see the aborted liftoff from orbit as is described in the commentary.
Gemini 7 - Prime Crew/BU Crew TrainingArchive footage of the crews of Gemini 7 training for emergency pad egress and Gemini simulator training - Audio is taken from the NBC coverage of the launch.Video courtesy NASAAudio NBC
Great bump!Good to see Ed White in something other than Apollo 1. Being backup for Gemini 7 should have put White-Collins in line for Gemini 10 according to Deke's system. I have always wondered why White was bumped from a command spot on Gemini 10 into Apollo 1. Rather than White-Collins, Gemini 10 became Young-Collins. Demotion? Promotion? Lateral move? Of course White went to Apollo 1 and Young to Apollo 10. Interestingly both as CMPs.
Here are my thoughts on the Gemini 10 assignment.Young, who was on BU crew for Gemini 6 was in line to command Gemini 9.When Slayton re-assigned Elliot See from pilot of GT-8 to Command Pilot of GT-9, it bumped John Young back one flight...to GT-10.That in turn "bumped" Ed White to Apollo 1 position.
Look, I think that after finishing stints as the Gemini 6 backup command pilot, Grissom was ticketed for Apollo. White, after being the backup command pilot for Gemini 7 was ticketed for Apollo. If memory serves me correctly, Grissom, White and Eisle, the ORIGINAL Apollo 1 crew was picked by Slayton in January 1966. Grissom and White were never "ticketed to rotate to any further Gemini crews because by the end of December 1965, they were slated to move to Apollo. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#:~:text=Director%20of%20Flight%20Crew%20Operations%20Deke%20Slayton%20selected,and%20had%20to%20undergo%20surgery%20on%20January%2027.)
Film sequences of Gemini VII crew (Borman, Lovell), crowds watching the launch and cockpit views of Gemini station keeping with the Titan II upper stage. Ambient sounds were recreated (footage was silent) and used along with historical narration and mission audio. Some footage was AI upscaled to high-definition using Topaz AI. This recovers some detail while removing compression artifacts and noise. Colors were corrected and matched between cameras and segments.
Gemini 7 - Launch, Crowd, Cockpit Titan stage station keeping, Crew, Gemini Program, Borman, LovellQuoteFilm sequences of Gemini VII crew (Borman, Lovell), crowds watching the launch and cockpit views of Gemini station keeping with the Titan II upper stage. Ambient sounds were recreated (footage was silent) and used along with historical narration and mission audio. Some footage was AI upscaled to high-definition using Topaz AI. This recovers some detail while removing compression artifacts and noise. Colors were corrected and matched between cameras and segments.
Quote from: Big RI Joe on 08/27/2022 08:13 pmThere is nothing in DEKE that would lead one to believe that Slayton felt Chaffee and White were "intellectual lightweights" That type of slander is malicious, mendacious, and totally uncalled for. (Just channeled my inner "Jim")Perhaps I over-dramatized it a little It's not the first time
There is nothing in DEKE that would lead one to believe that Slayton felt Chaffee and White were "intellectual lightweights" That type of slander is malicious, mendacious, and totally uncalled for. (Just channeled my inner "Jim")