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Neil Armstrong Museum: Gemini space suit

uploaded by jonathan.kade July 20, 2009 at 02:22 pm
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The Gemini spacesuit.

Tags: moon, Museum, World, Apollo 11, gemini, Neil Armstrong, Moon landing, wapokoneta

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Title: Neil Armstrong Museum: Gemini space suit

File Size: 1944 × 2592 – 1.85 MB

Created: Mon, 07/20/2009 - 2:22pm

Modified: Mon, 07/20/2009 - 2:22pm

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jonathan.kade

at 14:40 on July 20th, 2009

The suit Neil Armstrong wore during Gemini 8, the first US docking in space, and one that nearly turned into a tragedy due to a hardware malfunction. Armstrong aborted the docking seconds before he and Dave Scott would have passed out and probably died.