Space Rocket History Podcast

Space Rocket History #63 - Gemini V with Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad - 8 Days or Bust -Part 1

By this time the Astronauts were thinking about a nickname for their spacecraft, but NASA Headquarters now officially refused to allow nicknames for...

Space Rocket History #62 - Gemini IV with James McDivitt and Edward White - The Duration - Part 3

On orbit 48, after 75 hours of flight a problem arose. During a pass over the continental US the flight computer was updated. McDivitt was told to switch...

Space Rocket History #61 - Gemini IV with James McDivitt and Edward White - America’s First Spacewalk - Part 2

For the first time Television coverage of the launch had an international audience, as the scene was broadcast to 12 European nations via Intelsat 1...

Space Rocket History #60 - Gemini IV with James McDivitt and Edward White - Part 1

The success of Gus Grissom and John Young’s Gemini 3 flight paved the way for long duration space missions. The longest U.S. manned space flight to...

Space Rocket History #59 - Ranger 8-9, and Intelsat I