Posted on February 12, 2014
“Blue Gemini” was the tag name for an Air Force manned space flight program to develop rendezvous, docking, and transfer for military purposes, using Gemini-type spacecraft. The concept became firmer in June, when the Air Force Space Systems Division (SSD) began working on plans to use Gemini hardware as the first step in a new Air Force man-in-space program called Mods (Manned Orbital Development System), a kind of military space station with Gemini spacecraft as ferry vehicles…
fig58 Astronauts after a training session in desert near Stead Air Force Base, Nevada
Goal
fig54 Instrumented mannequin being lowered into a boilerplate Gemini spacecraft in preparation for a dynamic sled test of the Gemini ejection system
fig52 Gemini launch vehicle 1 undergoing tests in the vertical test facility at Martin’s Baltimore plant
fig51 POGO suppression equipment proved out in the Titan II development program
fig48 Proposed deployment sequence for the ballute stabilization device
fig47 Titan II flight N-15 was launched from Cape Canaveral on January 10, 1963