Posted on January 30, 2014
“The main trouble with the Mercury capsule was that most system components were in the pilot’s cabin; and often, to pack them in this very confined space, they had to be stacked like a layer cake and components of one system had to be scattered about the craft to use all available space. This arrangement generated a maze of interconnecting wires, tubing, and mechanical linkages. To replace one malfunctioning system, other systems had to be disturbed; and then, after the trouble had been corrected, the systems that had been disturbed as well as the malfunctioning system had to be checked out again.” James Chamberlin
The operating principle of the fuel cell designed by General Electric, adopted for use in the Gemini spacecraft
modified Titan II booster
Gemini spacecraft to be released publicly
Adapter Section of Mark II
Four stages in a rendezvous mission as conceived early in 1962
An artist’s version of the use of ejection seats to escape from the Gemini spacecraft
fig8 proposed lunar lander to be used with an advanced version of the Mercury spacecraft