General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. GEMINI RECOVERY GT-2

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General Records of the Department of the Navy. 1941 - 2004. Moving Images Relating to Military Activities. 1947 - 1980. GEMINI RECOVERY GT-2

1965

1) CU Astronaut VIRGIL GRISSOM in blockhouse with phone.2) ECU Same. G3) CU Graph chart or analogue computer, with bar in motion.4) CU Official in blockhouse with headset.5) CU Astronaut COOPER on station in blockhouse; other technicians in BG.6) CU GRISSOM wearing phones.7) ECU Technician with phones in blockhouse.8) MS Large room, showing officers and enl"d personnel. G9) CU PAN Many technicians in blockhouse. F10) HA MS Naval officers and enl"d personnel in a room.11) MCU Civilians, with an Air Force officer in BG.12) CU Air Force officer chatting with civilian.13) CU Navy LCDR smoking a cigar, while on station before a console; other officers along row in BG.14) CU Naval officer over a plotting table.15) CU A drawing; PAN, to maps around the walls of large room; officer is at the console; PAN, to a staff officer working on plotting table.16) ECU Hands of officer with compass.17) CU Officers at console, most of them Lt"s. LCDR"s, CDR"s.18) CU Navy officer seated at console; other officers in BG (SV).19) CU Looking down over a man"s hand writing information on a sheet (OX). F20) CU Air Force general.21) CU Unidt. official chatting with someone in large room.22) CU Naval officer wearing phones.23) CU GORDON COOPER chatting with technician in blockhouse. G to F24) CU VERGIL GRISSOM wearing phones, chatting with a technician in blockhouse (SV). G25) CU High-ranking VIP"s in a large room.26) HA MLS PAN Blockhouse, showing many consoles; technicians at the consoles; TV monitors and electronic equipment in blockhouse. G27) CU Two personnel at console; man in FG has a NASSA emblem on his white shirt.28) ECU NASA technician, with phones.29) CU Technicians at their stations in blockhouse.30) CU Sign on back of man"s shirt: "Man"s Space Craft Center".31) CU Word "Martin" on back of a man"s shirt. G32) CU Technicians chatting in blockhouse.33) MLS Technicians seated before consoles in a long row; each man has on a blue shirt.34) CU Man wearing phones, chatting to someone off to left.35) CU Air Force Lt. Col. Wearing phones, seated at his station in blockhouse.36) MLS Many personnel in blockhouse; TV monitors in left BG. G37) MLS Personnel at their consoles on other side of room. G38) CU Two technicians on station in blockhouse.39) CU Buttons command and selector buttons. G40) CU Two rows of buttons, top row lit up in green. G41) CU Civilian technician wearing phones. G42) CU Buttons lighting up on console.43) LS Blockhouse; PAN to the many technicians in blockhouse at their stations; TV monitors in far BG. G

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Cooper, Gordon, 1927-2004

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Gordon Cooper (b. March 6, 1927-d. Oct. 4, 2004) was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma. He was selected as a Mercury astronaut in April 1959, and on May 15-16, 1963, he piloted the "Faith 7" spacecraft on a 22-orbit mission which concluded the operational phase of Project Mercury. He later served as command pilot of the 8-day 120-revolution Gemini 5 mission which began on August 21, 1965. It was on this flight that he and pilot Charles Conrad established a new space endurance record by traveling a dista...

Grissom, Virgil I. (Virgil Ivan), 1926-1967

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Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (b. April 3, 1926-d. Jan. 27, 1967) was born in Mitchell, Indiana. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, received his wings in March 1951. He flew 100 combat missions in Korea in F-86s with the 334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron and, upon returning to the United States in 1952, became a jet instructor at Bryan, Texas. In August 1955, he entered the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to study Aeronautical Engineering. He attended the T...