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Gemini VII amp VIA Orbiter Space Flight Simulator
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Facebook. Advances, pictures, details, comments: • / orbiterfilmmaker • The original Gemini 6 mission, scheduled for launch on October 25, 1965 at 12:41 pm EDT, had a planned mission duration of 46 hours 47 minutes, completing a total of 29 orbits. It was to land in the western Atlantic Ocean south of Bermuda. The mission was to include four dockings with the Agena Target Vehicle. On October 25, 1965, Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford boarded their Gemini 6 craft to prepare for launch. Fifteen minutes later, the unmanned Atlas-Agena target vehicle was launched. After a successful burn of the Atlas booster, the Agena's secondary engines fired to separate it from the Atlas. But immediately after the Agena's primary engine fired at the six minute mark in its flight, telemetry was lost. A catastrophic failure apparently caused the vehicle to explode, as Range Safety was tracking multiple pieces of debris falling into the Atlantic Ocean. After 50 minutes, the Gemini launch was canceled. • After reviewing the situation, NASA decided to launch an alternate Gemini 6A mission, eight days after the launch of Gemini 7, which was scheduled as a 14-day ultra long duration mission in December. Gemini 6A would perform the first rendezvous of two spacecraft in orbit, using 7 as the target, though they would not dock. • Gemini 7 launch and ascent were nominal, was successful on December 4, 1965, 19:30:03 UTC. The crew, James Lovell and Frank Borman, spent nearly 14 days in space, making a total of 206 orbits. • The launch the 6A mission was successful on December 15 at 13:37:26 UTC. The radar on Gemini 6A first made contact with Gemini 7 at three hours and fifteen minutes when they were 434 kilometers away. At five hours and four minutes, he saw a bright star that he thought was Sirius, but this was in fact Gemini 7. After several more burns, the two spacecraft were only 130 feet (40 meters) apart. The burns had only used 51 kilograms of fuel on Gemini 6A, giving plenty of fuel for some fly-arounds. During the next 270 minutes, the crews moved as close as one foot (30 centimeters), talking over the radio. At one stage the spacecraft were stationkeeping so well that neither crew had to make any burns for 20 minutes. As the sleep periods approached, Gemini 6A made a separation burn and slowly drifted out to 16 kilometers. This ensured that there would not be any accidental collisions in the night. • Gemini 6A reentered the next day, December 16, landing within 18 kilometers of the planned site northeast of Turks and Caicos in the Atlantic Ocean. It was also the first recovery to be televised live, through a transportable satellite earth station developed by ITT on the deck of the recovery aircraft carrier USS Wasp. • On December 18 the Gemini 7 retro-rockets worked perfectly after 14 days in space. They landed within 11.9 km of the targeted landing point. The crewmen were somewhat weakened by their time in space, but both were in good health and were up and about after a good night's sleep on the recovery ship USS Wasp. They were also in good spirits: during recovery, they joked to Mission Control about getting married after having spent so long together in space.
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