g08_v_bw_o_n (1966 press photo, poss. no. 2 (of an unk. sequence))
“Scott will make the nation’s second space walk on the mission. After stepping out of the capsule, wearing a chest pack that is connected to the spacecraft with a 25-foot umbilical (a combined oxygen-communication-tether line) he will move aft to the adapter section and experiment with a torqueless power tool. To begin the experiment, Scott will pull up a box-like unit from the adapter, open it to take out a power tool, then use the tool on four nut-and-bolt-test setups to determine the effectiveness of the tool and whether its action will tend to turn his body in space as a reaction to its operation.”
Due to the near disaster as a result of the spacecraft’s runaway thruster, no Extravehicular Actvity was conducted by Scott. As you might expect, in addition to Command Pilot being Neil Armstrong, there’s no shortage of material/reading available regarding this flight. A few:
airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/spinning-out-control...
Credit: Smithsonian NASM website
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001927.html
www.collectspace.com/news/news-031616c-gemini8-50th-anniv...
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000681.html
Above three credit: collectSPACE website
Finally, back to what I’m here for, the photographs and/or artists & artist’s concepts. Russ Arasmith…what a body of work.
g08_v_bw_o_n (1966 press photo, poss. no. 2 (of an unk. sequence))
“Scott will make the nation’s second space walk on the mission. After stepping out of the capsule, wearing a chest pack that is connected to the spacecraft with a 25-foot umbilical (a combined oxygen-communication-tether line) he will move aft to the adapter section and experiment with a torqueless power tool. To begin the experiment, Scott will pull up a box-like unit from the adapter, open it to take out a power tool, then use the tool on four nut-and-bolt-test setups to determine the effectiveness of the tool and whether its action will tend to turn his body in space as a reaction to its operation.”
Due to the near disaster as a result of the spacecraft’s runaway thruster, no Extravehicular Actvity was conducted by Scott. As you might expect, in addition to Command Pilot being Neil Armstrong, there’s no shortage of material/reading available regarding this flight. A few:
airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/spinning-out-control...
Credit: Smithsonian NASM website
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/001927.html
www.collectspace.com/news/news-031616c-gemini8-50th-anniv...
www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000681.html
Above three credit: collectSPACE website
Finally, back to what I’m here for, the photographs and/or artists & artist’s concepts. Russ Arasmith…what a body of work.