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>> way to go, partner. >> youve done it, boy. >> thats great. >> man, that is really slick. >> okay, gemini eight, 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 bang and i said were in a bank...

Pioneers. headlines may be made by others in other places. history is being made every day by the men and women of the aerospace medical center without whom there could be no history. >> when he was assassinated, that was a personal blow. that was a personal blow to us because he was the guy to get us on this track. >> when president johnson came in, you know, he was going to continue to implement what president kennedy had done. those two men together led us to where we ended up at the end of t...

>> weve got serious problems here. >> they got up to one revolution a second so we decided to undock, which we suspected was a problem and the gemini started spinning and we figured out, oh, its the gemini. >> what seems to be the problem? >> its rolling and we cant turn anything off. >> did he say he could not turn the agena off. >> he said he separated and did a roll and cant stop it. >> the only way to get out was for him to fire the thruster. >> stop the spinning spacecraft before it spun so...

Picture, nothing unusual about that. but that was the first selfie in space. >> gemini 12. >> when gemini was over, the team of people, planners, astronauts, and people in the control center were complete synched and we came out with confidence in ourselves. let us have this apollo stuff. well take it to the moon as fast as we possibly can. android smartphones, like the samsung galaxy s6. only till december 27th.

Behind. >> ignition. >> the primary goal of project gemini was to perform space rendezvous. without that, no moon mission. >> with the lunar technique with the command modular, you have to bring the two vehicles together and to get them close in such a way, it was easy to dock them. took a fair bit of work. >> flying nose to nose, very clearly see the rising scanners up there. >> roger. >> that was the moment when we pulled ahead to the space race. that was something the russians hadnt even come...

I give you neil armstrong. >> neil armstrong was unflappable. he was a natural aviator and armstrong just seemed never to be ruffled. >> neil is a cool guy, as we all know. in fact, all of the guys i was working with at the time are all exceptional pilots so its great to be on a team like that where they are all winners. >> gemini is the space agencys bridge to the future. with it well learn mans true capabilities and draw backs in space and on the last five gemini flights well practice several ...

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...

Though headlines may be made by others in other places, history is being made every day by the men and women of the aerospace medical center without whom there could be no history. >> when he was assassinated, that was a personal blow. it was a personal blow to us because he was the guy that got us on this track. >> when president johnson came in, you know, he was going to continue to implement what president kennedy had done. those two men together led us to where we ended up at the end of the ...

>> neil armstrong was unflappable. he was a natural aviator, and armstrong just seemed never to be ruffled. >> neils a cool guy, as we all know. in fact, all of the guys i was working with at the time are all exceptional pilots. so its great to be on a team like that where theyre all winners. >> gemini is the space agencys bridge to the future. with it well learn mans true capabilities and drawbacks in space, and on the last five gemini flights, well practice several different forms of rendezvou...