00:00The entire Gemini program cost around 1.3 billion US dollars back in the 1960s. Adjusted for inflation
00:07today we're talking about roughly 11 to 12 billion US dollars. For comparison Apollo cost about 25
00:14billion dollars in the 1960s. Adjusted for inflation over 250 billion US dollars. So Gemini
00:23was significantly cheaper than Apollo but technologically absolutely crucial. Estimates
00:29suggest that at the peak of the Gemini and Apollo era a total of over 400 000 people were involved
00:36in some capacity. Gemini itself involved tens of thousands of engineers, about 20 000 contractors,
00:43major aerospace corporations, military laboratories and universities. The prime contractor was McDonnell
00:50aircraft. But systems came from General Electric, IBM, North American Aviation, Aerojet, Bluejet,
00:58Lockheed and many more. Gemini was thus one of the earliest examples of a complex nationally coordinated
01:05high-tech ecosystem.
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