Gemini 7 space program

As their respective sleep periods approached, a separation burn was made by Gemini 6A, and to prevent an accidental collision in the night, they drifted out to 16 kilometers.

Re-entry on Gemini 6A occurred the next day, landing within 9. The excitement of spaceflight had worn off for the crew of Gemini 7 by this time. The two men had spent nearly 11 days in space and knew they had three days left. After the rendezvous incentive was gone, and they were doing little more than drifting around the Earth. During the last three days, a few malfunctions began. As with Gemini 5, some of the thrusters stopped working.

After the flight, this was traced to an old type of laminate in the thrust chamber. The fuel cells started to only give a partial amount of power on the 12th day; however, the remainder of the flight was sustained by the ship's batteries.

Finally, on the last day of the mission, the crew began to store everything for re-entry. After 14 days in space, the retro-rockets worked perfectly. Gemini 7 landed within 6. Borman and Lovell were weakened by their time in space but in good health.

After re-entry, they had a good night's sleep on the recovery ship USS Wasp and were up and about the next day and in good spirits. They joked during recovery to Mission Control about getting married after spending so long together in space. In the post-flight debriefing, Borman and Lovell noted that the food rations had generally been of good quality.

However, they disliked and advised against using the freeze-dried protein bites. They also suggested more breakfast items to avoid bite-sized food that easily produced crumbs and improve the packaging of items. They often found it challenging to remove the tightly-packed food containers. Gemini 7 had a more extensive supply of food than previous flights because of the lengthy mission. Additionally, some of the food had not been stowed correctly in correlation to the day they were supposed to be eaten.

They also objected to the required recording of every use of drinking water and instead argued that they could instead use the meter on the water hose to record the amount used. Home It's a Space Station! December 3, Space History. Related Posts. We Seven Tales of Mercury's "Poetic" Astronaut. Mercury Atlas 8 and Sigma 7: 58 Years Later.

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Another related experiment used an inflight phonocardiogram to record astronauts' heart sounds in order to provide some insight into the functional cardiac status of astronauts during space flights. The experiment titled Bioassays of Body Fluids was designed to obtain objective data concerning the effect of space flight on several of the systems of the human body.

This investigation, as part of an overall evaluation, addressed areas where effects could be observed by alterations in the body chemistry. Plasma and urine samples were analyzed before flight to obtain baseline data, and after flight more samples were used to compare any observed differences. During flight, only the urine was sampled using the urine-sampling and volume-measuring system. Results of the analyses were used as an indication of the physiological status of the crewmembers during and following space flight.

The Bone Demineralization study investigated the occurrence and degree of any bone demineralization loss of essential minerals like calcium from the bones resulting from space flight to determine if corrective measures would be necessary during long duration space flight.

A related experiment, the Calcium and Nitrogen Balance Experiment was to obtain data on the effects of 14 days of space flight on two of the largest metabolically active tissue masses in the human body, namely bone and muscle and, therefore, the functional integrity of the skeletal and muscular systems.

One of the innovations of this flight was the scheduling of two work and sleep shifts to coincide with the routines the astronauts were used to. The Inflight Sleep Analysis investigation, unique to Gemini 7, recorded the brain states of the pilot who wore scalp electrodes over several days of the mission, providing a little over 54 hours of interpretable data.

They landed within 6. The crewmen were somewhat weakened by their time in space, but both were in good health and were up and about after a good night's sleep on the recovery ship USS Wasp. They were also in good spirits: during recovery, they joked to Mission Control about getting married after having spent so long together in space. The Gemini 7 and 6A missions were supported by the following U. Department of Defense resources: 10, personnel, aircraft and 16 ships.

Gemini 7 space-flown Fliteline Medallion. The patch features an Olympic torch , symbolizing the marathon -like length of the mission. The crew did not put its names on the patch, although souvenir versions did include the flight and crew names. The crew patch was designed by Houston artist and animator Bill Bradley.

Gemini 7 spacecraft on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. The spacecraft is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center , Chantilly, Virginia. Space Shuttle.

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