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In this Astrum Extra exclusive, we’re digging into NASA’s most dangerous mission ever: Project Gemini. With the space race heating up, this series of 10 risky space flights - including NASA’s first spacewalk - pushed astronauts to the absolute edge. Find out how Gemini taught us to survive in space and paved the way to the Moon.



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0:00 Project Gemini
2:48 Rocket Vibrations
7:01 Meeting in Orbit
10:52 Spacecraft Docking
14:53 NASA’s First Spacewalk
18:43 Spacesuit Failures
22:09 Fuel Cell
24:17 Astronaut Health Tests
25:33 Space Food
27:28 Reentry and Landing



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References:
A History of Project Gemini”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/gemini
“History of Manned Lunar Spacecraft”, via ntrs.nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/lunarcraft
“Project Gemini Chronology”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/gemini2
“Solving the Pogo Effect”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/pogo
“World’s First Space Rendezvous”, via airandspace.si.edu https://astrumspace.info/rendezvous
“Spinning Out of Control: Gemini VIII”, via airandspace.si.edu https://astrumspace.info/geminiviii
“Walking in Space: the First US Spacewalk”, via airandspace.si.edu https://astrumspace.info/firsteva
“Gene Cernan’s Disastrous Gemini Spacewalk”, via airandspace.si.edu https://astrumspace.info/cernaneva
“Apollo Food Technology”, via ntrs.nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/spacefood
“Gemini Guidance Computer”, via ibm.com https://astrumspace.info/ibm_ggc



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Credits:
Writer: Kiki Lawrance
Video Editor: James Horsley
Audio Editor: James Horsley
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Thumbnail Designers: Peter Sheppard, Juane Dames
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Production Coordinator: Rose Unwin
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
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Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan



With special thanks to:
NASA/ESO/ESA



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