Gemini 8 News Today

Youve done it. good job. >> man, thats great. >> man, that is really slick. >> okay, gemini 8, looking good on the ground. go ahead and dock. >> they found another object in space, and they docked them together to make one big spacecraft or rocket on the nose of the gemini. that was amazing. >> so its nighttime. power down. have dinner and get ready for the next day. and i happened to look over at neils panel and i saw his eight ball, his attitude gyro, in a bank. i said, neil, were in a bank. >...

>> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission. >> with lunar orbit rendezvous technique, where the lunar module flew back up, rendezvoused with the command module, you have to bring these two vehicles together and get them close in such a way that it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, we can very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead in the space r...

Of his character. christopher craft spoke about the choice. he once said neil armstrong reticent, soft-spoken and heroic was our only choice. he had an incredibly distinguished history, his courage, he was a fighter pilot in korea shot down once, 78 missions. he had joan the gemini 8 mission, the two-man mission which came the closes to disaster something that he rescued through ingenuity when he and his fellow astronaut were near to blacking out because of an unexpected tumbling of the spacecra...

Space as commander of gemini 8. in this mission two vehicles were successfully docked in space at the first time, however, ran into complications and armstrong man the decision to gain reentry early and risks were always part of space explorati exploration, nearly to the launch of apollo 11 he was nearly killed landing in a module. and looks like he only got a few swings in the parachute before he hit the ground. >> and he retired from nasa in 1971 and accepted a teaching position in university ...

With neil happened to be the person who commanded the mission that got the opportunity to do this. he always claimed that his position was nothing special that somebody else could have done the job had the timing worked out differently but the bosses selected him for his coolness under fire demonstrated on gemini 8. >> he had such a cool, calm demeanor which is why he was selected among the crew of astronauts that nasa had at the time. in the years since that day, he was not somebody who sought ...

He joined the navy and at the age of 20 flew 78 combat missions over korea. he graduated from purdue university in 1955 with a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering. in 1962 armstrong joined the astronaut program. four years later he got his first taste of space as commander of gemini 8. two vehicles were docked in space for the first time. however, they ran into complications. armstrong made the decision to begin re-entry early and the mission was cut short. risks were always p...

>> armstrong made world history when he stepped off the eagle and set foot on the moon on july 20th. hundreds of millions of people gathered in front of television around the globe to witness it. they became national heroes. president praised the heroics with a special long distance call. >> hello, neil and buzz, i am talking by telephone from the oval room at the white house. >> neil armstrong was born august 5, 1930 in ohio, at 16 years age he had his student pilots license before he drove car...