Complex 34

Standing on the shores of human space exploration.

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JUMP*SUIT: So let's say the original Gemini crew plan had actually happened.

gizmo-key:

asonlynasacan:

lightthiscandle:

According to Deke Slayton, the original flight order in Gemini was scheduled to be:

Gemini 3: Shepard/Stafford

Gemini 4: McDivitt/White

Gemini 5: Schirra/Young (rendezvous)

Gemini 6: Grissom/Borman (long-duration)

Gemini 7: Conrad/Lovell (This one wasn’t officially…

AGREED. Gemini 7 would have been hilariousness.

And Schirra/Young would have been an epic marathon…hair off. A hair-a-thon. EIGHT DAYS OR BUST OF POMADE

Gemini 6, hoo boy… that’d be the stone face flight (as long as Frank didn’t take any reds as they called them back then)

Yeah, 6 would have been an interesting one. I can’t see Gus and Frank being a good crew match for a two person flight. That would have been one serious business flight though. What’s worse, though, is that poor Frank was slated for medical experiments from day one. He was targeted as their test monkey.

  1. winking-at-the-moon reblogged this from jump-suit and added:
    As weird as Gemini 6 would have been, I think Gus and Frank would have understood that it was necessary so Pete and Jim...
  2. jump-suit reblogged this from lightthiscandle and added:
    Gemini 6: Eyes Front, Shut Up
  3. asonlynasacan reblogged this from lightthiscandle and added:
    D’AWWWWWW! NASA bromances are the best :)
  4. lightthiscandle reblogged this from spaceandstuffidk and added:
    I have a copy of Deke! with me, and here is Slayton’s reason, verbatim, why he paired Conrad with Lovell: “They had gone...
  5. spaceandstuffidk reblogged this from jump-suit and added:
    I feel like we were seriously cheated out of a Conrad/Lovell flight. I’M PUKING RAINBOWS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.
  6. complex34 reblogged this from gizmo-key and added:
    Yeah, 6 would have been an interesting one. I can’t see Gus and Frank being a good crew match for a two person flight....
  7. gizmo-key reblogged this from asonlynasacan and added:
    Gemini 6, hoo boy… that’d be the stone face flight (as long as Frank didn’t take any reds as they called them back then)
  8. mrsdfsneezy reblogged this from lightthiscandle and added:
    Then this world…this whole thing…would not be the one we know now.
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