CSPAN3 Gemini VIII This Is Houston Flight July 1, 2016
Each week, American History tvs reel america brings your archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. 50 years ago on march 16th, 1956, gemini 8 blasted off with Neil Armstrong and david scott on board. It was the sixth manned mission and one of the primary objectives was to rendezvous and dock with the gina spacecraft. This is a 25 minute nasa film, telling the story of a first docking with another aircraft in space and what caused it to violently tumble in space. The astronauts were forced to abort the mission and return to earth approximately ten hours after blastoff. Igniti...
Source: archive.org
