GEMINI 3 Launch to Staging [HD source] (1965/03/23)

Complete sequence of Gemini 3 launch including 1st stage separation (at 2:43 ). Some crowd and control room images were used to make up for a few seconds of non existing footage.

Separation footage from the second stage is also from a previous mission (Gemini 2 perhaps), but is similar to what happened on Gemini 3.

The footage is presented at real-speed, with synchronized audio from NASA mission control and a Titan II launch.

Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown.

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[CapCityDC]

Thank you so much for posting this, my father was the helo pilot of HS-57 that pulled Grissom and Young from the ocean and flew them and back to the Intrepid. He passed away April of 2014 at 82. He had the yellow rescue yolk signed by them and the helicopter crew, I don't know what became of it, he said years ago he planned to donate it to the DC Navy Yard museum or the naval museum at Pensacola. I have his set of flight log books and this day is entered no different than any other routine flight, lists the flight code as 1Q5, with CVS-11 in the remarks. I was born 3 months later.

[Aceb_k]

I love when flat earthers say this is CGI, like even now we cant make CGI look that good and you think 60 years ago they had that, sure bud.

[speedball]

My favorite part of any launch is staging and this is a Great view of the infamous Gemini fireball at staging that all the Gemini guys talk about at 2:44. It momentarily engulfs the entire second stage.

[edwardpate]

Aesthetically the most beautiful launch system ever!

[tommyslimpickens]

Only thing missing is the sound of the turbo pumps starting up before the ignition. Love that sound. It's like the sound of a Merlin engine in a P-51 Mustang. Distinctive.

[Kw]

I have the “Titan Missle Museum “ about 12 miles away from me and am glad I never seen one of those launched. As powerful as it was it is hard to believe that that was only the second stage power of the “Saturn V Rocket “ soon to be launched just about two years later. That’s when the nation motto was :We can Do It” to today’s “I don’t want to because it hurts my feelings “…😢!
Have a great day!

[chrischeshire]

Gus Grisson, John Young and a corn beef sandwich...The Gem of this new ocean. Remember like it was yesterday.

[MrVezzuto]

I was on the USS Intrepid for the recovery of the Molly Brown. Such a thrill

[dennismartin]

IMO... The time the two absolute greatest flew together.

[MrMrwaz]

Gus always sounded like he was going out on a fishing boat on a Sunday ..

[donjones]

I was a boy when Gemini was flying and it spoiled me for all future spaceflight programs. It flew 10 manned launches in just 19 months. There was alway another flight coming up in a couple of months. The Gemini spacecraft is still my favorite looking one, the crew were seated like fighter pilots, looking straight forward thru the cockpit windows.

[harbingerdawn]

Holy crap, the upper stage shoots off like a bullet! I always knew Titan's upper stage could haul ass, but god damn.

[simplywonderful]

You have to remember that the Titan II rocket used for Gemini was actually an ICBM - a missile - repurposed (slightly) for manned space flight.

[foxmccloud]

NASA on this mission agreed to the name Molly Brown after rejecting the name Titanic for obvious reasons.

[foxmccloud]

Several days earlier, the soviets walked in space when Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space.

[kng]

I wonder if Spacex do the “go/no go” around the room thing. Or is it all automated now and humans aren’t needed to make those decisions?

[apollosaturn]

The fireball the astronauts talked about during staging was basically a flash on their windows.

[srinitaaigaura]

The second stage shot off like....like a rocket!

[jenniferclark]

57th anniversary of this flight today.

[kproductions]

Wow, the staging popped and kicked so fast. Is there any video showing a more close-up view of the staging event? Footage of the Titan staging has been so difficult to find, and my Google-Fu is not strong