Gemini Astronaut Photos Inspired Early Earth Observation Program
The photos taken by Lovell, Aldrin, and other Gemini astronauts demonstrated the value of orbital imagery for studying Earth’s surface.
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- orbited Earth from November 11 to 15, 1966, on Gemini XII, the final mission of NASA’s Gemini program.
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Their images helped scientists make the case for a dedicated Earth observation satellite program.
In addition to successfully completing rendezvous maneuvers and spacewalks, procedures vital to sending American astronauts to the Moon, the crew was also spurring the development of a different field of exploration, observing Earth from space.
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- captured this image of the area surrounding the Red Sea and Nile river valley on November 14, 1966, during their four-day mission in space.
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- Pecora, the director of the United States Geological Survey from 1965 to 1971.
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