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Tune into The Curiosity Chronicles to hear about the missions that made Project Gemini a success!  They weren't all perfect but they accomplished the goals to get to Apollo.  Hear about great missions, not so great missions, and missions that nearly ended in tragedy in Part Two of Project Gemini!

Sources:

Kranz, Gene. Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. Simon and Schuster, 2000.

https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/gemini-mission-program-index/gemini-6a-fact-sheet/

Kluger, Jeffrey. Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/geminis-first-docking-turns-to-wild-ride-in-orbit/

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1966-047A

https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/gemini-mission-program-index/gemini-10-fact-sheet/

https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/gemini-mission-program-index/gemini-11-fact-sheet/

https://www.spaceline.org/united-states-manned-space-flight/gemini-mission-program-index/gemini-12-fact-sheet/

As well as all of the sources listed in Gemini Episode One