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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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