This film is a silent version of a NASA “Quick Look” documentary about the Gemini Program. The Gemini Program had four main goals: to test an astronaut’s ability to fly long-duration missions, to understand how spacecraft could rendezvous and dock in orbit around the Earth and the Moon, to perfect re-entry and landing methods, and further to understand the effects of longer space flights on astronauts. This film covers the launches of the Titan II rockets, the success of the rendezvous of Gemini VI, manned by Tom Stafford and Walter Schirra, and VII, manned by Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, in 1965, and the following recovery of the capsule at sea.

“NASA Gemini VII and Gemini VI Quick Look” title banner (00:11). An astronaut and NASA crew members enter a lift (00:12). The astronaut enters a Gemini capsule (00:40). A full office of control panels and employees (00:50). Crewmembers in the lift close the door on the capsule (00:52). Control panels and NASA employees (00:58). The Titan II Rocket launches (01:01). Control panels and NASA employees (01:36). The Titan II Rocket is separated by blowoff (01:38). A rocket launch vehicle (possibly Saturn V) being transported by truck (01:49). A rocket service structure tower (02:04). Astronauts and NASA crew members exit a trailer (02:07). They walk to the service structure (02:22) and take the lift up the rocket’s side (02:36). Astronauts enter the rocket (02:44). The door is closed by crew members (03:15). NASA crew members observe from the ground (03:27) as the rocket launches (03:32). Footage of the rocket’s journey through space (04:27). A US Navy LPH ship (11:42) and a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopter flying (11:52). Views of the Gemini VI SC6 capsule floating in the ocean after landing (11:59). Divers jump from the helicopter (12:13) and begin the recovery of the capsule from the ocean (12:22). US Navy soldiers and NASA crewmember observe from the LPH ship as the divers cheer the success of the Gemini VI journey (12:30). The capsule is retrieved from the ocean onto the LPH ship (13:04). The astronauts, Tom Stafford and Walter Schirra, exit the capsule (13:28). Views of the Gemini VII capsule floating in the ocean after landing (14:37). A divers jump from a Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King helicopter to recover the capsule (14:48). The astronauts of the Gemini VII capsule, Jim Lovell and Frank Borman, are exiting the capsule (15:28) and they are lifted into the helicopter (15:59). The helicopter lands on the LPH ship (16:47) and astronauts Lovell and Borman, exit the helicopter (17:00). The capsule is lifted onto the ship (18:14).

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