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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], NASA Project Tapes, Ms2001-020, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
This collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in June 2001.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the NASA Project Tapes commenced and was completed in January 2020. Minimal description was previously completed in 2014.
This collection comprises 16 reel to reel audiotapes of various NASA projects and news conferences from the Kennedy Space Center from 1963 through 1966. The tapes pertain to Project Mercury and Project Gemini (3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11). Some tapes include audio of launching and landing from the projects. The crew members included from Project Mercury are John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Shirra, and L. Gordon Cooper, and the crew members from Project Gemini are Gus Grissom, James A. McDivitt, Edward H. White II, Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford, Pete Conrad, Gordon Cooper, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and John Young.
The collection is primaily arranged chronologically.
The guide to the NASA Project Tapes by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/).
Side 1 - Meeting
Side 2 - John Noble (?)
Side 1 - Carpenter #2 landing
Side 2 - Tennesse Ernie Ford
Side 1 - Second Astronaut, Carpenter #1
Side 2 - Little over 3 hours of flight, thru 11:41am
Side 1 - Third Astronaut (Walter) Wally M. Shirra
Side 2 - Walter M. Shirra - almost 1st half of 2nd side, Lots of Pete towards end
Side 1 - L. Gordon Cooper's take off
Side 2 - Grace Carr
Gemini 4 flight take off about 10:15am, McDivitt, White - last part of the tape
Side 1 - Landing of Gemini 4
Side 2 - Last half - landing from Wasp and boarding plane for Houston, Very last - news conference
Side 1 - News Conference of McDivitt and White
Side 2 - Launching, Cernan and Stafford, Successful landing of Gemini 9, Gemini 11 - just a few feet left on end
Side 1 - Shirra and Stafford did not go, Atlas Agena did not go, Gemini VII Frank Borman - Jim Lovell, Splash down, 9:05am
Side 2 - News report of Neil Armstrong, David Scott, not all used, Agena - 10:15am lost the bird, Gemini 9 scrubbed for today
Side 1 - Gemini III "Molly Brown", 2-man shot, Grissom, Young
Side 2 - Splash down, News conference