Space Report - Gemini and Ranger Open A New Era
Space Report - Gemini and Ranger Open A New Era
See also catalog # 529486 and 529488 This could be called the Saga of the Heavenly Twins. A comprehensive pictorial report of the voyage of the Molly Brown. Lt. Commander John Young and Major Virgil Grissom take off from Cape Kennedy on a Gemini flight that opens a new era in space. For the first time a space vehicle is maneuvered in space, swung around, its orbit changed. The Gemini is a much more sophisticated and versatile vehicle than was the Mercury. It proves its worth in the program that will culminate in a space rendezvous. The piloting of a space vehicle is deemed as historic as Russia's "walk in space". So far as is known, the Soviets have never maneuvered a capsule - necessary routine for a space contact. Second half of the week's double-header was the successful flight of the Ranger 9. This photographic vehicle sends a new series of pictures back from the moon which are transmitted for immediate showings on screens across the nation. It is the third successful moon shot to give scientists new knowledge of the moon's surface prior to a man's landing there. This is a High Angle Shot of Cape Kennedy. MS - Naval truck pulls up to a waiting crowd, out step the astronauts, Major Virgil Grissom and Lieutenant Commander John Young dressed in their flight suits. The astronauts are escorted to the Rocket - Gemini 3. The astronauts riding up in an elevator to the entrance of the Rocket. Gemini 3 sitting on a launching pad. The astronauts are helped into the seats of the nose cone of the rocket. CU Head shots of the astronauts. The clamps that hold the rocket on the launching pad are being removed. LS Gemini 3 fires up her engines on the launching pad and it s a lift off into space. In Washington DC, President Lyndon B Johnson sitting on a chair watching the flight of Gemini 3. A ball of fire out in space and that is Gemini 3. POV - The empty tanks being discarded by Gemini 3. Animation - A drawing of Gemini 3. Inside the cock pit you see one of the astronauts hands push a button and then you see the animation of Gemini 3 turn and point up. High Angle Shot (in space) looking down at Gemini 3. High Angle Shot - Gemini 3 with its parachute open coming in for a landing in the ocean. Gemini 3 landing in the ocean. Aerial Shot USS Intrepid. Helicopters lifting off the flight deck of the Intrepid. Aerial Shot - Astronauts in a life raft. High Angle Shot taken from the Rescue Helicopter. Astronaut lifted into the chopper. Sailor looking through binoculars at the helicopters. Rescue helicopter landing on the flight deck of the USS Intrepid. Major Grissom and Lieutenant Commander Young escorted to debriefing. High ranking officers shaking the hands of the astronauts. President L.B. Johnson, I know that both of you fellas are mighty happy and the entire nation is happy too. I know that I speak for the rest of this country when I tell ya that we re very proud of you and that we re very grateful for your safe return. High Angle Shot - Sailors pulling on ropes hauling in the nose cone of Gemini 3. MS - Gemini 3 being lowered on to the flight deck of the Intrepid. Crowds of journalists and sailors gathered around the Gemini. The two astronauts posing with the nose cone of Gemini 3. Animation of Ranger 9 taking photos of the moon. Crowds gathered to see moon images. MS - Clock on the wall. People watching the monitor, moon shots show up on the monitor. People applauding. Aerial S - USS Intrepid. Astronauts Major Virgil Grissom and Lieutenant Commander John Young cutting a huge cake. The astronauts and the naval crew eating the cake. Naval officers as well as lower ranking personal sitting in an audience. One of the astronauts standing at the podium. He unrolls a drawn piece of paper with the drawing of Unsinkable - Molly Brown.