December 16, 1965.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Universal Newsreels ; Release 101

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

The Sixties (1960-1974).

Spacecraft.

Cape Canaveral, FL.

Local Subjects:

The Sixties (1960-1974).

Spacecraft.

Cape Canaveral, FL.

Genre:

Newsreel

Physical Description:

1 online resource (6 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Neighborhood:Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Universal Pictures Company, 1965.

Language Note:

In English.

Original language in English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

THE GEMINI SAGA The strange and wonderful story of GEMINI SIX and GEMINI SEVEN -and their rendezvous in Space. While GEMINI SEVEN circles the earth, Major Thomas Stafford and Command Pilot Walter Schirra make two attempts to keep a date in Space. Their first attempt at blast-off is scrubbed when a malfunctioning plug drops out and shuts down the engines. They sit tight in their space craft and pray for the best. Their courage is rewarded as GEMINI SIX rides out the crisis undamaged. Then, three days later, comes one of the most beautiful take-offs in the Cape's fifteen-year history as GEMINI SIX rises to the heavens and the historic meeting. Complicated maneuvering brings the two capsules together and they chase each other around the globe for four hours. This is the rendezvous so essential to a manned shot to the Moon. Twenty-six hours after take-off, GEMINI SIX is returned to earth and lands within 12 miles of the Carrier Wasp...the closest landing to a recovery ship ever made. A new Page in UNITED STATES Space history????...By the Big Horn Spoon, it was an entire, GLORIOUS CHAPTER!!!!!

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).

OCLC:

859525051