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Overview
Provides details of the last Gemini flight, flown by veteran Commander James Lovell and brilliant rookie Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781894959049 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Collector's Guide Publishing, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2004 |
| Series: | Apogee Books Space Series , #40 |
| Edition description: | BK & CD-Rom |
| Pages: | 265 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.61(d) |
Table of Contents
| 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 |
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