11-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel
A researcher inspects a Gemini spacecraft mounted on a sting in the 11-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel. Why the spacecraft is pointed forward in its ascent attitude, but without its service module or Titan II booster for this test is not certain, but it may have involved launch abort aerodynamics.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 1962-L-04893
Date: June 18, 1962
				
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11-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel
A researcher inspects a Gemini spacecraft mounted on a sting in the 11-Inch Hypersonic Tunnel. Why the spacecraft is pointed forward in its ascent attitude, but without its service module or Titan II booster for this test is not certain, but it may have involved launch abort aerodynamics.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: 1962-L-04893
Date: June 18, 1962
				
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