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You've done it. good job. >> man, that's 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 it's nighttime. power down. have dinner and get ready for the next day. and i happened to look over at neil's panel and i saw his eight ball, his attitude gyro, in a bank. i said, neil, we're in a bank. >> we've got serious problems here. >> they got up to one revolution a second so we decided to u...

>> 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 race. that was something that the russians hadn't even clom close to doing and wouldn't accomplish fo...

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 spacecraft and also there was one other character that we've seen over the years of his retirement, his unbe...

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 of cincinnati. air so space engineering until 1979 and then a spokesman for a handful of u.s. busine...

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 the spotlight, was he? >> he was very retiring, very modest. did not speak in public. rarely spoke a...