g_v_bw_o_n (62-Gemini-2, S-62-88 eq)
“Project Gemini two-man spacecraft (left) will have 50 per cent greater volume and weigh two to three times as much as the one-man Project Mercury spacecraft. Gemini, boosted into orbit by Titan II, will undergo flight tests beginning in 1963-4. To be built by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., the two-man craft will be used to develop space rendezvous techniques and for extended earth orbit missions lasting a week or more. Gemini is named for the twin stars, Castor and Pollux.”
Also, per “PROJECT GEMINI/TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS(?): A CHRONOLOGY”/SP-4002, page 20, at:
And:
history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/p1b.htm
This photo is identified as being...
“The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly. It was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named "Gemini." (NASA Photo S-62-88, released Jan. 3, 1962.)”
Artwork possibly by Arnold Pierce?
g_v_bw_o_n (62-Gemini-2, S-62-88 eq)
“Project Gemini two-man spacecraft (left) will have 50 per cent greater volume and weigh two to three times as much as the one-man Project Mercury spacecraft. Gemini, boosted into orbit by Titan II, will undergo flight tests beginning in 1963-4. To be built by McDonnell Aircraft Corp., the two-man craft will be used to develop space rendezvous techniques and for extended earth orbit missions lasting a week or more. Gemini is named for the twin stars, Castor and Pollux.”
Also, per “PROJECT GEMINI/TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS(?): A CHRONOLOGY”/SP-4002, page 20, at:
And:
history.nasa.gov/SP-4002/p1b.htm
This photo is identified as being...
“The first illustration of the Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly. It was distributed at the same time NASA announced that the project was to be named "Gemini." (NASA Photo S-62-88, released Jan. 3, 1962.)”
Artwork possibly by Arnold Pierce?