| Gemini 12 News Releases--November 3, 1966 | |
| MSC 66-46--June 17, 1966 | 10 |
| MSC 66-71A--September 27, 1966 | 11 |
| MSC 66-78--October 10, 1966 | 12 |
| Ames 66-15--November 7, 1966 | 14 |
| Ames 66-16--November 5, 1966 | 17 |
| Gemini 12 Press Kit--November 3, 1966 | |
| General Release | 21 |
| Preflight Activities and Integrated Countdown | |
| Launch Vehicle Countdown | 23 |
| Reentry | 23 |
| Mission Description | |
| Launch | 24 |
| Rendezvous | 24 |
| Agena PPS Maneuver | 25 |
| First Stand-up EVA | 25 |
| Umbilical Extravehicular Activity | 25 |
| Station-Keeping Exercise | 26 |
| Solar Eclipse Phasing | 26 |
| Second Stand-up EVA | 26 |
| Retrofire and Reentry | 26 |
| Experiments | 27 |
| Cameras | 33 |
| Crew Provisions and Training | |
| Crew Training Background | 33 |
| Gemini 12 Suits | 34 |
| Extravehicular Life Support System (ELSS) | 34 |
| Medical Checks | 35 |
| Body Waste Disposal | 35 |
| Water Measuring System | 35 |
| Food and Flight Menu | 35 |
| Manned Space Flight Tracking Network | |
| Mission Requirements | 36 |
| Real Time Computer Complex (RTCC) | 36 |
| Tracking | 36 |
| Ground Communications | 39 |
| Network Responsibility | 39 |
| Network Configuration | 40 |
| Abort and Recovery | |
| Crew Safety | 40 |
| Planned and Contingency Landing Areas | 41 |
| Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles | |
| Gemini Spacecraft | 41 |
| Gemini Launch Vehicle | 43 |
| Agena Target Vehicle | 44 |
| Atlas Launch Vehicle | 45 |
| Crew Biographies | 46 |
| Previous Gemini Flights | 48 |
| Project Officials | 51 |
| Spacecraft Contractors | 52 |
| Approximate Times of Major Events | 53 |
| Gemini 12 Summary Operations Plan--October 31, 1966 | 59 |
| Gemini Program; Record of Accomplishments--January 17, 1967 | 66 |
| Gemini 12 Technical Debriefing--November 22, 1966 | |
1.0 | Countdown | |
1.1 | Crew Ingress | 74 |
1.2 | Communications | 74 |
1.3 | ECS | 74 |
1.4 | Prelaunch Checkout | 75 |
1.5 | Launch Azimuth Update | 75 |
2.0 | Powered Flight | |
2.1 | Lift-off | 75 |
2.2 | Roll Program | 76 |
2.3 | Pitch Program | 76 |
2.4 | ECS | 76 |
2.5 | DCS Updates | 76 |
2.6 | Engine I Operation | 76 |
2.7 | Engine 2 Status | 76 |
2.8 | BECO | 76 |
2.9 | Staging | 76 |
2.10 | Engine 2 Ignition | 77 |
2.11 | RCS Initiate | 77 |
2.12 | Steering | 77 |
2.13 | Go/No Go | 77 |
2.14 | Systems Status | 77 |
2.15 | SECO | 77 |
2.16 | Communications | 77 |
3.0 | Insertion | |
3.1 | Post SECO | 77 |
3.2 | SECO Plus 20 Seconds | 78 |
3.3 | Insertion Checklist | 79 |
4.0 | Orbital Operations | 80 |
5.0 | Retrofire | |
5.1 | T[subscript r]-256 Checklists | 162 |
5.2 | T[subscript r]-0 | 164 |
6.0 | Reentry | |
6.1 | Reentry Update | 164 |
6.2 | Attitude Control Modes | 165 |
6.3 | Reentry Control Technique | 165 |
6.4 | Guidance | 166 |
6.5 | Drogue Chute Deployment | 166 |
6.6 | Main Chute Deployment | 168 |
7.0 | Landing and Recovery | |
7.1 | Impact | 168 |
7.2 | Communications | 169 |
7.3 | Postlanding Spacecraft Status | 169 |
7.4 | Comfort | 170 |
7.5 | Recovery Team | 170 |
7.6 | Crew Egress | 170 |
7.7 | Survival Gear | 170 |
7.8 | Crew Pickup | 170 |
8.0 | Systems Operations | |
8.1 | Platform | 170 |
8.2 | OAMS | 171 |
8.3 | RCS | 174 |
8.4 | ECS | 175 |
8.5 | Communications | 184 |
8.6 | Electrical | 185 |
8.7 | On-board Computer | 186 |
8.8 | Radar | 187 |
8.9 | Crew Station | 188 |
8.10 | Spacecraft Exterior | 192 |
9.0 | Visual Sightings | |
9.1 | Countdown | 192 |
9.2 | Powered Flight | 192 |
9.3 | Orbital Flight | 193 |
9.4 | Retrofire and Reentry | 196 |
10.0 | Experiments | |
10.1 | Frog Egg Growth | 197 |
10.2 | Synoptic Terrain Photography | 197 |
10.3 | Airglow Horizon Photography S-11 experiment | 198 |
10.4 | Micrometeorite Collection S-12 | 198 |
10.5 | UV Astronomical Camera S-13 | 198 |
10.6 | Libration Regions Photography S-29 | 199 |
10.7 | Sodium Vapor Clouds S-51 | 199 |
10.8 | Tri-Axis Magnetometer (M-405) | 200 |
10.9 | Beta Spectrometer (M-408) | 200 |
10.10 | Bremsstrahlung Spectrometer (M-409) | 200 |
10.11 | Manual Navigation Sightings (T-2) | 200 |
11.0 | Premission Planning | |
11.1 | Mission Planning | 202 |
11.2 | Experiments | 203 |
12.0 | Mission Control | 204 |
13.0 | Training | |
13.1 | Gemini Mission Simulator | 206 |
13.2 | Launch Abort Training | 206 |
13.3 | MAC Engineering simulators | 207 |
13.4 | Translation and docking trainer | 207 |
13.5 | Planetarium | 207 |
13.6 | Systems Briefing | 208 |
13.8 | Spacecraft Systems Status | 209 |
13.9 | Egress Training | 209 |
13.10 | Launch Simulations | 209 |
13.11 | Reentry Simulation | 210 |
13.12 | Simulated Network Simulation | 210 |
13.13 | Zero "G" Flights | 210 |
13.14 | Underwater Zero "G" | 210 |
13.15 | MSC Altitude Chamber | 210 |
13.16 | Gemini Crew Station Mockup | 211 |
13.17 | Gemini Adapter Mockup | 212 |
13.18 | Agena Mockup | 212 |
13.19 | Sextant Training Equipment | 212 |
13.20 | Camera Training Equipment | 212 |
| Rendezvous Concept for Circumlunar Flyby in 1967 | |
| Index | 215 |