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What's With the Gold Foil on the Gemini Spacecraft?

That gold foil in the Gemini adapter section wasn't just pretty, it was extremely useful. The gold foil was the same as the material on the lunar module descent stage and played the same role: it was for temperature management in the extreme environment of space.

More on the radar evaluation pod mentioned in the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSkhrt7oIGk
And the corresponding article on Vintage Space is here: http://www.popsci.com/meet-gemini-radar-evaluation-pod

And there's a lot more Vintage Space over on Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/vintage-space

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Видео What's With the Gold Foil on the Gemini Spacecraft? канала The Vintage Space
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26 сентября 2015 г. 23:55:49
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