Talk:Project Gemini/Archive 1

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In the specs table the metric mesurments have commas after every three digits. the official SI way is with a space cc24.137.78.34 16:31, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

As I have never seen nor heard anything about a space being used instead of a comma, I am changing it back to commas. I have countless texts that use commas for SI units. Also, with a space it copies very sloppy into spreadsheets and the like. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.162.56.142 (talk) 00:22, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Gemini-Titan in fiction

Wel, I liked the section. Perhaps a sepearte entry? Here it is if anyone wants to put in the work.

Gemini-Titan in fiction

• The Doctor Who story The Tenth Planet features a manned space program called Zeus, modeled after Gemini.
• In an episode of Chuck Jones' Tom and Jerry, "Puss N Boats", The Gemini spacecraft appeared in the cartoon as a possible debut of the project.
• Two Gemini spacecraft (called "Jupiter" in the film) play a role in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice. The first is captured in space by an unidentified (and supposedly Soviet) spacecraft early in the movie. A second almost meets the same fate during the final showdown, but is saved by Bond who blows up the hostile vessel seconds before it can capture the capsule.
• In the 1968 Robert Altman-directed film Countdown, a modified Gemini spacecraft is sent to the moon with a single astronaut in an effort to beat the Soviets following delays to Apollo. In the film the mission and craft are called Pilgrim. The film uses footage from both Gemini and Apollo launches. In real life, contractors for Project Gemini made proposals to NASA to develop the Gemini spacecraft as a cheaper and quicker vehicle to carry out a cislunar mission.
• In the 1964 novel Marooned, by Martin Caidin, a Mercury astronaut is stranded in Earth's orbit and a boilerplate Gemini (GT-2) is launched to rescue.
• The novel Autopsy for a Cosmonaut, by Jacob Hay and John Keshishian, is an account of a pathologist trained for a Gemini 12-A flight and EVA, to conduct in-flight autopsies of Soviet cosmonauts who have perished in a marooned Voskhod prototype.
• In the comic book series Dan Cooper number 16 - "SOS dans l'espace" by Albert Weinberg, a "Gemini 13" mission plays an important role.
• In the TV series I Dream of Jeannie, footage from the project is used to depict a fictional Gemini mission.

It's real. It's valid. It's real and valid. MartinSFSA (talk) 05:51, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

enough

i put hard work for looking for information to "Gemini-Titan in fiction" and other space flight stuff only to find someone cut my effort out pages with "because off..." I have enough with this "Edit War", i stop to work for Wiki —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.66.135.235 (talk) 14:44, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Crew rearrangement

Was the first rearangement due to delays in the production of the Agena Target Vehicle as indicated in the article. Or was Theodore Freeman's T-38 crash and Charles Bassett's assignment to Gemini the first? The later occurred on Halloween, 1964.--RadioFan (talk) 18:18, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

More advanced than Apollo?

I'm not suggesting it isn't true, but the part about Gemini being, in some respects, more advanced than Apollo needs to cite a source at the very least. Giving some examples of why Gemini was more advanced might also be a good idea.209.244.31.35 (talk) 00:33, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree that it needs support or else should be deleted. It seems to be original research (I've been a space enthusiast since 1965 and I've never heard anyone say that,) so I strongly support deletion. Hiding a link to Big Gemini in the phrase is a sloppy tactic and doesn't really support the statement. However, I think it would be a good idea to include a brief "Proposed Gemini applications" section with links to Big Gemini, Blue Gemini and MOL.And Big Gemini is already linked in the "Gemini applications" section. JustinTime55 (talk) 15:02, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Numerology?

Re: "As it happened, despite these random substitutions and similar ones in Apollo, and a different number of unmanned flights in both programs, Slayton's rotation philosophy dominated to create a curious coincidence: most of the Gemini astronauts who went on to fly in Apollo occupied an Apollo mission numbered one more than their corresponding Gemini mission:

Schirra commanded Gemini 6 and Apollo 7. Borman and Lovell flew together on Gemini 7 and Apollo 8. David Scott flew on Gemini 8 and Apollo 9. Stafford and Cernan flew together on Gemini 9A and Apollo 10. Collins flew on Gemini 10 and Apollo 11. Conrad and Gordon flew together on Gemini 11 and Apollo 12. Lovell commanded Gemini 12 and Apollo 13. The only exceptions to this pattern were:

McDivitt, who commanded Gemini 4 and Apollo 9 Young, who flew Gemini 3, Gemini 10, and Apollo 10 Armstrong, who commanded Gemini 8 and Apollo 11":

If this is merely a "curious coincidence", then I don't think it deserves mention in the article, especially at this considerable length. Anyway, there are enough stated exceptions to make it not all that remarkable a "curious coincidence". TheScotch (talk) 11:32, 5 November 2010 (UTC) "Slayton says nothing about this in his book, IIRC, indicating it's not more. MartinSFSA (talk) 20:32, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Prograrm cost

The $5.4 billion reported here is way wrong (is that supposed to account for inflation?) and is unsourced. Also, wikilinking it to NASA budget is way out of order. John Noble Wilford gives reliable figures in We Reach the Moon, in 1969 dollars from an estimate NASA gave to Congress for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo combined, which put the total for Gemini at $1.283,4 billion (1969). (The COL index ought to be easy to find and apply, too.) I'll put this in tomorrow when I get a chance. JustinTime55 (talk) 21:46, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Titan I

This article states: "The Titan II had debuted in 1962 as the Air Force's second-generation ICBM to replace the Atlas." Titan II also replaced Titan I which also used LOX like the Atlas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.66.32 (talk) 23:36, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Redundant writing

Do we really need redundancy in the first paragraph "Titan II GLV launch vehicle" as GLV stands for Gemini Launch Vehicle? The line thusly states "Titan II Gemini Launch Vehicle launch vehicle". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dilbert2000 (talk • contribs) 20:50, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

How's this for a fix? TJRC (talk) 22:54, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Nice fix, thanks! Dilbert2000 (talk) 07:49, 31 March 2013 (UTC)