00:00Panic mode. To understand Gemini, you have to go back to the year 1961. The USA is in the
00:07middle of the Cold War. City. Space travel, back then as now, is a piece on the global chessboard
00:13of geopolitics. The Soviet Union has just scored practically every major first. First satellite
00:20with Sputnik, first living mammal in orbit with Leica, and first human in space with Yuri Gagarin.
00:26And that was in 1961. The United States seemed technologically behind. But then something
00:35decisive happened. On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy stands before Congress and
00:42makes a statement that changes history. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other
00:48things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. The United States will land a man
00:54on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of this decade.
00:58A.
00:59A.
01:00A.
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01:01B.
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01:02A.
01:03You
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