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From launchpad to this: tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/gemini/11#S66-54830_G11-M.
And this:
tothemoon.ser.asu.edu/gallery/gemini/11#S66-54890_G11-M.
The photograph is reversed.
The Gemini 11 spacecraft was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 19 at 7:42 a.m., September 12, 1966.
A view of the Peruvian coast, spanning from the coastal cities of Chiclayo (upper left) to Trujillo and Puerto Morin (lower right). The Andes Mountains are readily visible to the east of the cities.
Project Mercury had put Americans into space; Project Gemini was the next stepping stone to the eventual goal of the legendary Space Race: the Moon. True to its name, Gemini would use two-man spacecraft.
Though NASA had always intended Gemini as the next step between the largely experimental Mercury and the moon-bound Apollo, designing the capsule was going to be complicated. The Mercury capsule could serve as a basis, but needed to be significantly upscaled to not only carry two astronauts, but also extra oxygen supplies and more fuel. The Gemini capsule would be designed by a team of American and Canadian engineers, with significant help from Virgil "Gus" Grissom, one of the original Mercury Seven. A solution was found to the oxygen and fuel problems by putting them into an "Adapter Module" at the rear of the spacecraft. Maintenance and reliability were greatly improved over Mercury, and Grissom's input was to put the astronauts truly in control of their craft. The Gemini also used a more powerful launch vehicle, the Gemini-Titan, adapted from the Titan II ICBM.
After two test flights, Gemini got underway with Gemini 3 in March 1965. It would continue until November 1966 with Gemini 12. Gemini would prove to be a success: astronauts were able to rendezvous with test vehicles in space and with each other, space walks were conducted safely and of long duration, and the astronauts themselves set records for endurance in space. All of this proved that Apollo's Moon missions were indeed feasible, and Gemini marked the moment where the United States overtook the Soviet Union in the Space Race.
Gemini 3 was the first manned Gemini mission, and given Grissom's input into the program, it only made sense to make him the command pilot; he was joined by John Young. Gemini 3 was mainly just a test flight to make sure the Gemini system worked and that it could maneuver in space. Other than a small water leak and the fact that they undershot their landing zone by over 50 miles (which was the fault of the Gemini design rather than the astronauts), Grissom and Young enjoyed a trouble-free flight, albeit one that only lasted four hours.
Gemini 3 was the only Gemini capsule officially named--at Grissom's suggestion, "Molly Brown," after the Broadway play "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." This was a joke on Grissom's part, since his first capsule, the Mercury "Liberty Bell 7," had sank after splashdown. NASA was not amused and forbid the astronauts from officially naming the rest of the Gemini missions, though the practice was revived for the Apollo missions.
Sadly, it would prove to be Grissom's last spaceflight. He was killed in the launch pad fire of Apollo 1, along with fellow Gemini alumni Ed White and rookie astronaut Roger Chaffee, on 27 January 1967. Young would command Gemini 10, then go to the Moon twice with Apollo 10 and 16 (one of only three people to do so), and topped off an amazing career by commanding the first two Space Shuttle flights. He died of natural causes in January 2018.
Dad built this Gemini capsule as a tribute to Grissom, along with Liberty Bell 7. The Geminis were somewhat plain compared to the decorated Mercury capsules and the polished Apollos. The real Gemini 3 is today displayed at the Grissom Memorial in Mitchell, Indiana--Gus Grissom's hometown.
previous stop in Piran (HR) and on 2012/06/15 arrived in Triest (I)
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Its the largest sailing catamaran in the world !
LOA: 145.0 ft (44,20 m)
Beam: 54.5 ft (16,60 m)
Max guests: 12
Crew: 10
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Note the different shade/color of Gene's "trousers", to provide additional thermal protection to guard against the hydrogen peroxide plumes from the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (AMU) he was to have donned. This extra protection came in the form of 11 layers of aluminized H-film and fiberglass, topped by a metallic fabric woven from fibers of the alloy Chromel R. It was particularly important since, during the EVA, the AMU’s jets would actually fire directly between Cernan's legs. During training, a technician charred the material with a blowtorch for five minutes and told Cernan that, despite the intense temperature of the AMU exhaust, he would remain comfortable in his protective suit.
Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.
Its objective was to develop space travel techniques in support of Apollo, which had the goal of landing men on the Moon. Gemini achieved missions long enough for a trip to the Moon and back, perfected extra-vehicular activity (working outside a spacecraft), and orbital maneuvers necessary to achieve rendezvous and docking. All manned Gemini flights were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida using the Titan II GLV launch vehicle.
“GEMINI RE-ENTRY CONTROL --- Artist’s drawing shows position and firing direction or re-entry control system (RCS) for Gemini spacecraft. RCS has two independent, identical sets of eight engines each. One set is back up. Each engine develops about 25 pounds of thrust. RCS is produced by Small Engine division of Rocketdyne, a division of North American Aviation, Inc., under subcontract to McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. McDonnell is developing Gemini under the technical direction of NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas. The engines are used to position spacecraft for retrograde rocket firing and to control roll, pitch and yaw of the spacecraft as it re-enters earth’s atmosphere. The RCS is located in re-entry equipment section just forward of the pressurized cabin.”
Although the accompanying data sheet is from 1966, the original artwork, and I'm assuming original publication of this image, is from 1963.
An absolutely gorgeous work by Sol Dember, who egregiously/sadly & disappointingly, was far too under/unappreciated.
Thanks to journalist/reporter(?) Andrew Porter, in conjunction with Mike Glyer, at:
file770.com/sol-dember-death-learned/
Credit: File 770/'Mike Glyer's news of science fiction fandom' website
Subsequently, thanks also to Kathy Pinna/Ancient Faces website, at:
www.ancientfaces.com/person/sol-dember-birth-1922-death-2...
And finally, a wonderful & gratifying find & read at:
www.simivalleyacorn.com/articles/simi-illustrators-work-i...
Credit: Michael Picarella/’Simi Valley Acorn’ website
Since too many online sources have evaporated WRT the legacies of other artists, the content of the above follows:
“Simi Valley resident and illustrator Sol Dember, 82, has his art hanging in the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the American Embassy in London, and the Air Force Academy in Colorado, as well as offices, homes, and galleries.
His work appears in encyclopedias, dictionaries, books, magazines and even greeting cards and record jackets.
Dember attributes his interest in art to his late uncle, who taught him the principles of design and a love for art in 1940 when Dember was in high school.
“After school, I would go to (my uncle’s) house and learn a lot from him about art technique,” Dember said. “I really liked to draw and paint. But my family was always artistic.”
At a young age, Dember made holiday silkscreen posters that he sold to local grocery markets and other stores to earn money at Christmas.
Dember graduated from the New York School of Industrial Art and studied at the Beaux Art Institute in Paris, France. Since then, he’s worked in the commercial art field.
Dember paints landscapes and seascapes, scientific and technical designs, and conceptual drawings. His work has received more than 50 ribbons and awards in national exhibits.
“I feel the accomplishment in doing things,” Dember said, proudly displaying his awards on a wall in his home.
Dember also teaches a three-semester course in airbrush techniques and related commercial art techniques. He taught at Pierce College for 22 years, Moorpark College for 18 years, and instructed art classes on 46 cruise ships.
Dember co-authored four books about art technique, including “Complete Airbrush Techniques,” “Complete Art Techniques and Treatments,” and two volumes of “Drawing and Painting the World of Animals.”
When Dember was an art director and in-house technical illustrator at Rockwell Scientific, he drew over 500 illustrations of space vehicles, machinery and surfaces of imaginary planets. He wants to lend many of those drawings to a Thousand Oaks hands-on science center that’s yet to be built.
“I offered my paintings to the vice president of this operation, and he said, ‘When we get started on it, we’ll be glad to accept it,’” Dember said.
Dember also hopes that his King Tutankhamun and Nefertiti paintings, which traveled the country with the 1978 King Tut exhibit, will be accepted into the current show.
“I just don’t know who to contact,” Dember said. Another King Tut exhibit is now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Dember is on two art advisory committees at Los Angeles Tech College. He’s listed in the California State Library in the Who’s Who of California History of Art, the Who’s Who in the West, the International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement and the International Gold Award Book.”
I invite you to click on the "Sol Dember" tag to hopefully gain some appreciation of the man's work/legacy.
Finally, along with information pertaining to the mural featured at the following linked site:
"DESCRIPTION
On the fourth floor of Bob Hope Patriotic Hall is Solomon Dember’s mural representing the history of the United States Navy and the Marine Corps. The artwork was created using a fresco technique on the room’s stucco wall. The mural was part of the renovation done for the Navy/Marine Corps meeting rooms and was dedicated by Ronald Reagan in 1982. To depict naval history, Dember chose to show famous American ships and sea battles. The history begins on the left with the Revolutionary Warship Bonhomme Richard engaged in the Battle of Flamborough Head, and continues with ships and battles of the Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and finally Vietnam. The mural was commissioned by the Los Angeles County Naval Foundation.
About the Artist
Sol Dember was born in 1923 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the New York School of Industrial Art and, after serving in the Army during WWII, also studied at France’s School of Fine Arts (L‘Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts). In the 1950s and 60s he created many depictions of potential space vehicle designs for NASA. In the 1960s he also created the design for a White House Christmas card and Lyndon Johnson bought the original painting on which the card was based. He has lived in Southern California since 1946 and has taught art at Pierce College for 25 years and at Moorpark College for 22 years."
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Credit: Los Angeles County Arts & Culture website
Grissom's first flight assignment was piloting Liberty Bell 7, which flew a 15-minute, 37-second suborbital hop on July 21, 1961. It was the second manned flight of the single-astronaut Mercury spacecraft, and used explosive bolts on the door so that the astronaut could leave the spacecraft quickly after landing.
The flight proceeded without incident, but when Grissom landed, something prematurely triggered the hatch and caused the door to blow open. Grissom ended up in the water with a sinking spacecraft beside him. The recovery helicopter tried in vain to retrieve Liberty Bell 7 for a few minutes before picking up an exhausted Grissom. (The spacecraft was later retrieved in 1999 and is now on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.)
Collection Name: RG102.04 Missouri Department of Agriculture State Fair Photograph Collection
Photographer/Studio: Hanke, Fred. G. Midland Empire Photo Service, St. Joseph, MO
Description: Gemini capsule on display by McDonnell of St. Louis, built for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Coverage: United States – Missouri – Pettis County – Sedalia
Date: August 1965
Rights: permission granted
Credit: Courtesy of Missouri State Archives
Image Number: 14-01423
Institution: Missouri State Archives
On February 20, 1962, after three years of training, John Glenn rocketed into space aboard the Mercury capsule Friendship 7. He became the third American in space and the first to orbit Earth. The historical flight was no easy feat. At the end of his first orbit, a yaw attitude jet clogged, forcing Glenn to abandon the automatic control system and use the manual electrical fly-by-wire system.
In 4 hours and 56 minutes, John Glenn circled the globe three times, reaching speeds of more than 17,000 miles per hour. The successful mission concluded with a splashdown and recovery in the Atlantic Ocean, 800 miles southeast of Bermuda.
Workers directing the loading of Gemini onto a Titan II rocket. Gemini is suspended on a crane, with the base of the Titan II behind it.
Artist: George Mathis, the Aerojet-General Corporation resident artist.
Date: Nov-1965
Photo ID: C1165 333
Astronauts Scott Carpenter, John Glenn and Walter Schirra inspect mockup of Apollo command module at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Downey, California.
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.
President Kennedy and NASA administrator James E. Webb inspect Gemini spacecraft during visit to McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plant in St. Louis. McDonnell executive Walter F. Burke (back to camera), and James McDonnell, Board Chairman (behind President Kennedy), explain the operation of the spacecraft to the visitors.
Project Gemini was NASA’s second human spaceflight program, conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo. It started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. It was an enormous undertaking, involving awesome risks, and set the stage for the last and greatest adventure in the U.S. space program, Project Apollo. “Appointment in the Sky” is the story of the men and machines of Project Gemini as told by Sol Levine, the deputy technical director of the project. Published in 1963, in the midst of Project Gemini, Levine describes its origin and purpose, the special training of the pairs of astronauts who participated, and the minute-by-minute procedures of the flight, the rendezvous in orbit, the uncoupling and the re-entry. It is filled with detail about space flight. President Lyndon Johnson wrote the Foreword to the book.