The Gemini spacesuit is a spacesuit worn by American astronauts for launch, in-flight activities (including EVAs) and landing. It was designed by NASA...
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Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the seventh crewed Gemini flight, the 15th crewed American...
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maritime sealift command container ship NASA A1C spacesuit, an Apollo variant of the Gemini spacesuit Airman First Class, the third enlisted rank in the...
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systems engineer. The astronauts would wear a modified version of the Gemini spacesuit. After an uncrewed LM test flight AS-206, a crew would fly the first...
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Space suit (redirect from Spacesuits)
A space suit (or spacesuit) is an environmental suit used for protection from the harsh environment of outer space, mainly from its vacuum as a highly...
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faceplate (made of acrylic) on the control panel in front of him. Later Gemini spacesuits and all Apollo and Space Shuttle (both launch-entry and EVA suits)...
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The Apollo/Skylab space suit (sometimes called the Apollo 11 Spacesuit because it was most known for being used in the Apollo 11 Mission) is a class of...
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astronauts also evaluated a lightweight spacesuit, the G5C, which proved uncomfortable when worn for a long time in the Gemini spacecraft's hot, cramped quarters...
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Sokol space suit (category Soviet and Russian spacesuits)
[citation needed] During the flight of Gemini 7 in 1965, Frank Borman and Jim Lovell wore modified Gemini spacesuits sharing some similarities with the Sokol...
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Launch Entry Suit (category American spacesuits)
first time, new Launch & Entry Pressure Suits (LES). Resembling the Gemini spacesuit in appearance, but identical in function to the SR-71 partial-pressure...
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Gemini 4 (officially Gemini IV) was the second crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965. It was the tenth crewed American spaceflight...
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high-altitude fighter aircraft. It is best known for its role as the spacesuit worn by the astronauts of the Project Mercury spaceflights. The MK IV...
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Gus Grissom (category Project Gemini astronauts)
train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom was also a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA. As a member of the NASA Astronaut...
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Manned Orbiting Laboratory (redirect from Gemini B)
main features Gemini B layout Integral launch dual compartment laboratory MOL variations The MOL program's requirements for a spacesuit were a product...
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spaceflight (Freedom 7 in 1961) and the 100th (STS-71 in 1995) A Gemini 7 G5C spacesuit Full-scale replica of a Space Shuttle orbiter which once stood adjacent...
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new program. The David Clark Company was awarded a contract for the Gemini spacesuit, with a fixed fee of $829,594.80 plus costs. Born: Greg Daniels, American...
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Extravehicular activity (section Project Gemini)
for a stand-up EVA (SEVA) during the Polaris Dawn mission to conduct spacesuit mobility testing. The other two crew members were exposed to the vacuum...
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became the chief spacesuit technician for NASA, working with B.F. Goodrich to develop a practical spacesuit. After the Mercury and Gemini programs, Schmitt...
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for use by NASA in the Gemini and Apollo programs. The Gemini G4C spacesuit did not use Chromel-R as standard. However the Gemini 9 mission was to test...
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out that the astronaut's spacesuit is made neutrally buoyant but that the astronaut still feels gravity inside the spacesuit so the fit of the suit is...
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Gordon Cooper (category Project Gemini astronauts)
astronaut to make a second orbital flight when he flew as command pilot of Gemini 5 in 1965. Along with pilot Pete Conrad, he set a new space endurance record...
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in June 2010. The museum's displays include Stafford's Apollo 10 spacesuit, the Gemini 6A spacecraft, artifacts from the Space Shuttle program, the Hubble...
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Omega Speedmaster (section Gemini program)
longest-produced; it was worn during the first American spacewalk as part of NASA's Gemini 4 mission, and was the first watch worn by an astronaut walking on the Moon...
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and his spacesuit was almost completely destroyed. White suffered third-degree burns on almost half of his body and a quarter of his spacesuit had melted...
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David Scott (category Project Gemini astronauts)
an astronaut, Scott made his first flight into space as a pilot of the Gemini 8 mission, along with Neil Armstrong, in March 1966, spending just under...
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Maneuvering Unit (HHMU) used on Gemini 4. The Hand-Held Maneuvering Unit was the EVA "zip" gun used by Ed White on the Gemini 4 mission in 1965. The hand-held...
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the era of Project Gemini and the Voskhod programme, during the early "Golden Age" of space travel. Astronaut, CAPCOM for the Gemini XII-A mission. Transferred...
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Wally Schirra (category Project Gemini astronauts)
two-man Gemini program, he achieved the first space rendezvous, station-keeping his Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot (30 cm) of the sister Gemini 7 spacecraft...
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Richard E. Lawyer (section Lost spacesuits recovered)
second spacesuit was one used by Lawyer who had been assigned to evaluate spacesuits for the MOL program. The story of the recovered spacesuits and the...
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Advanced Crew Escape Suit (category American spacesuits)
the two-man crews of the SR-71 Blackbird, pilots of the U-2 and X-15, and Gemini pilot-astronauts, and the Launch Entry Suits (LES) worn by NASA astronauts...
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