Drama In Space: Gemini VIII Forced Down After Linkup
Drama In Space: Gemini VIII Forced Down After Linkup
The most dramatic Space probe in history is the flight of the Gemini Eight. Under command Pilot Neil Armstrong, the first civilian Astronaut, the Gemini has David Scott aboard for a planned Space walk of more than two hours. First on the agenda is a rendezvous with an Agena Rocket launched 101 minutes before the Gemini is airborne. After that the Space Walk, three other meetings with Agena and a three-day orbiting voyage. All goes well at first. Both launches are beautiful and the rendezvous takes place on schedule on the fourth orbit. Then trouble less than an hour later. The Agena starts gyrating wildly and the Gemini has to pull away. With a maneuvering, fuel is exhausted and it is ordered back to earth, and lands in an emergency area south of Japan -- right on the button. The voyage of the Gemini is a tribute to two brave men - men who are casting our future beyond the bounds of infinity. Cape Kennedy, Florida Wide Angle Shot of Cape Kennedy. CUS - Neil Armstrong getting assistance putting on his space suit. ECU - Neil Armstrong. CUS - Fellow Astronaut, David Scott. ECUS - Space Boot getting laced up. MS - Neil and David getting into the NASA truck. CUS - The two astronauts getting out of the NASA truck, all suited up - helmets and all. They walk over to the elevator that will take them up to Gemini VIII. CUS - The two men entering Gemini VIII and secured into their seats. MS - The Agena launch into space, she banks to the right. MS - The launch of Gemini VIII right after the launch of the Agena. CUS - Simulated docking of the Gemini and the Agena, but the mission had to be aborted because of violent shaking. CU of telegram. Pacific Ocean MS - The Battleship the US Mason that will pick up the two astronauts, Armstrong and Scott. Low Angle Shot - US military plane. MS - Gemini VIII in the ocean with Armstrong and Scott. MS - The two astronauts sitting on the outside of their space capsule as it floats bobbing up and down. MS - US Navy divers come to assist the two astronauts off of Gemini VIII and into the water and into a rubber raft.