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Restored Gemini Images Online

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
January 10, 2012
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Restored Photos: Project Gemini Comes to Life
“On 23 March 1965, the first of ten crewed Gemini spacecraft was launched carrying it’s crew of two astronauts, Gus Grissom and John Young. The NASA Johnson Space Center and the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University today proudly unveil the Project Gemini Online Digital Archive. The archive contains the first high-resolution digital scans of the original Gemini flight films, now available in several formats with a click of your mouse.”

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5 responses to “Restored Gemini Images Online”

  1. DTARS says:
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    Soon after the first space walk My father bought me a short 8mm movie of that walk. Cool stuff! Spacex gives me the same wonder and hope I recall from following each Gemini flight as kid. Lost my film lol. Neat to know it’s being saved.

  2. SpaceHoosier says:
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    Cudos to the good folks at NASA and ASU for not only preserving, but restoring and posting for all to enjoy these wonderful photos of exploration. Having grown up in Indiana, Gus Grissom was a hero of mine as a kid and I marveled at the displays at his museum in his home town of Mitchel IN. What a neat addition to his history as well as to all of the early NASA pioneers.

  3. Steve Pemberton says:
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    Project Gemini has for some reason been nearly forgotten in all of the nostalgia about Mercury and Apollo.  Other than those  of us who remember following the Gemini program, or those who study space history in depth, most people don’t realize just how important Gemini was and how many historic firsts were accomplished in such a short period of time.

    And that includes the photography.  Gemini provided human beings their first real look back at the world that they live on.  Yes there had been photographs taken from space and transmitted back to Earth before Gemini, and some photographs were taken by Mercury astronauts during their very brief missions (I’m not sure about the Russians). But it wasn’t until the Gemini astronauts pointed their Hasselblads and 16mm film cameras out of their picture windows that we really saw our home planet for the first time.

    Adding to the views of Earth, there were the spectacular photographs and films of Agena, Ed White, and the Gemini 6/7 rendezvous. This was the first time that those of us on Earth could actually see what it was really like in space.

    Just as the iconic Apollo 8 photograph of Earth is historically important, so are the Gemini photographs and films.  I am glad to see that they are being preserved so carefully for the future.

    • Shaw_Bob says:
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      The surprising thing about the Gemini images is actually how poor they were compared to Apollo; the learning curve was still there on Apollo, but the step-change between the two programs was quite dramatic. Of course, moving to medium-format cameras rather than 35mm rangefinders *did* help, too!

  4. DTARS says:
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    Steve
    I recall hiding the LIFE mags in my room as a kid LOL
    the space walk
    the first docking with agena
    the 14 day longest flight in space a record I think
    2 gemini up there at once.
    And of course the big model I had 🙂
     
    They were great days just as feb 7th 2012 may be one too 🙂
    It is stuff like that that does captures the publics attention.
    As Elon musk seems to understand I think.