On March 31, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft.
This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready for the Apollo missions that would later send astronauts to the moon. The Gemini spacecraft was designed by the Canadian engineer Jim Chamberlin and built by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. The design was pretty much a bigger version of the capsules NASA used for Project Mercury. Each capsule was shaped like a bell and measured about 19 feet long and 10 feet wide. Over the course of 10 missions, 16 astronauts flew to space in these cramped capsules.
This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time. NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready for the Apollo missions that would later send astronauts to the moon. The Gemini spacecraft was designed by the Canadian engineer Jim Chamberlin and built by the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. The design was pretty much a bigger version of the capsules NASA used for Project Mercury. Each capsule was shaped like a bell and measured about 19 feet long and 10 feet wide. Over the course of 10 missions, 16 astronauts flew to space in these cramped capsules.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04On March 31st, 1962, NASA approved the design of the new Gemini spacecraft.
00:08This small capsule could carry two astronauts into space at a time.
00:12NASA created the Gemini program to help the U.S. get ready for the
00:16Apollo missions that would later send the astronauts to the moon.
00:20The Gemini spacecraft was designed by the Canadian engineer Jim Chamberlain and built by the McDonnell
00:24Aircraft Corporation. The design was pretty much a bigger version of the capsules
00:28NASA used for Project Mercury. Each capsule was shaped like a bell and measured
00:32about 19 feet long and 10 feet wide. Over the course of
00:3610 missions, 16 astronauts flew to space in these cramped capsules.
00:40And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:44NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology