I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.
Ed Farrell
i remember as a small child visiting whyalla airport in south australia,
with my dad, to see a gemini spacecraft on a promo tour... i was around 6 or 7 so that puts the time around '66-69. is there anywhere i could find out more details of this spacecraft and the tour it was on?
Here in Auckland at the museum of transport and technology there was a
Gemini spacecraft on display in the mid seventies. I believe it was Gemini 10. The right-hand hatch had been removed so you could see inside. The
whole thing was covered in shaped pieces of clear plastic but I could just squeeze my hand in by the heat shield and touch a piece of history. It
looked so tiny without the adapter sections and the nose. Next to it was an incredible model of the whole spacecraft, about four feet long, that was detailed right down to the lowliest switch.
Inside a glass cabinet was a space suit that belonged to Buzz Aldrin. I
think it was from Gemini 12. It was pretty scruffy so I imagine it was one
of his training suits. I always thought that one day I would go back and properly photograph everything but in 1985 or so, New Zealand declared
itself nuclear free and banned visits by US military ships and planes and within days US Information Agency (I think that was the department) swooped in and took back all the artifacts.
What's the saying? You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
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Colin Burgess <cburgess@chilli.net.au> wrote in article <931687592.777399@smaug.dragon.net.au>...
Colin Burgess wrote:
Can't say I can recall this happening, and if so, it didn't come toSydney.
As an avid space fan back then I certainly wouldn't have missed this forthe
world. I do remember lining up to see the "Friendship 7" spacecraft on a whistle-stop tour around Australia. It was the genuine article, but Ialso
remember going into Sydney to see what was allegedly another Mercury spacecraft together with hundreds of other people, only to see afull-scale
model, complete with escape tower! I was angry enough (I was only about16)
to seek out one of the promo people who, very patronisingly, told me itwas
a real Mercury spacecraft that had been into space. When I asked why the phony escape tower was still attached, and there were no signs ofre-entry,
he said :"They painted it before it came over from America!" I'mwondering
if you might have fallen victim to this same bit of nonsense.
ian walker wrote in message <3787e9f3.0@pink.one.net.au>...6
i remember as a small child visiting whyalla airport in south australia, >with my dad, to see a gemini spacecraft on a promo tour... i was around
orout
7 so that puts the time around '66-69. is there anywhere i could find
more details of this spacecraft and the tour it was on?
On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 9:20:55 AM UTC+10, edfa...@gmail.com wrote:
I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.
Ed Farrell
I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
i remember as a small child visiting whyalla airport in south australia,
with my dad, to see a gemini spacecraft on a promo tour... i was around 6 or 7 so that puts the time around '66-69. is there anywhere i could find out more details of this spacecraft and the tour it was on?
I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
Ed Farrell
I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid inI made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018.
the 60s.
Ed Farrell
Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the
Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
yep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early
1961. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on
a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of >Wynnum in Florence Street. I went to see it there. I have somewhat of a >photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date.
But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!, >didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and a half years old >then )
went to see it there. I have somewhat of a photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date. But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!, didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and ayep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early 1961. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of Wynnum in Florence Street. II remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
Ed Farrell
On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7:52:23 PM UTC+8, Big Robbie wrote:went to see it there. I have somewhat of a photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date. But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!, didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and a
yep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early 1961. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of Wynnum in Florence Street. II remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
Ed Farrell
Dear Ed,
You are NOT going mad and your memory was SPOT ON.(having flown the year before with none other than one Michael Collins being co-pilot - he of course being on the Apollo 11 crew a few years later). Dare I presume it was trucked over from Adelaide over the Nullarbor thus it being in Kalgoorlie BEFORE it
It was Gemini 10 and I've spent nearly 15 years trying to chase this one down. It was on display outside the Perth Town Hall on the 21st August 1967 (Ref: "The West Australian Newspaper, 21 August 1967, Page 7") after being trucked down from Kalgoorlie
7000 people saw it in one day in Perth (when Perth's population was a heady 500,000 people) - myself included (well my mother took me - I was 6 years of age). The crowd pushed us through so quickly and I was bitterly disappointed - must have shown asmy mother and I rejoined the queue again. It was "School Holidays" time (August school holidays - back when we had "3 school terms" a year not the "4 Semesters" they have now).
The Gemini Capsule now resides in a Space Museum, in Hutchinson, Kansas (just N/W of Wichita, Kansas, USA) after being in Norway for many, many years.
Hope that helps.
QuentinI SAW IT IN tOOWOOMBA 1968/9 AT ACRA DEALER SHIP.
Perth, Western Australia
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