Blue Gemini

Blue Gemini was a project planned by the United States Air Force in 1962. The idea was to have seven flights using Gemini spacecraft to help the Air Force learn more about sending people into space. This was meant to happen before a bigger plan called the Manned Orbital Development System, or MODS, could start.

The project started as something called the Military Orbital Development System. It was created by the Air Force's Space Systems Division in June 1962. The plan was to use Gemini spacecraft that were already built, without making any new ones. This would let the Air Force get experience with human space travel before moving on to bigger projects.

History

Blue Gemini was a plan by the United States Air Force to learn more about space travel before building a special space station. The idea was to use special spacecraft called Gemini for several missions. Some of these missions would include both NASA and Air Force crew members, while others would focus on Air Force goals.

However, the Blue Gemini plan was canceled in January 1963. The decision was made because military experiments could be added to NASA's Gemini missions instead. At the same time, the plan for the space station was also canceled. Even though Blue Gemini was only a plan and never built, a test version of a related spacecraft can be seen at a museum in Ohio.

In fiction

The book series called Blue Gemini by Mike Jenne tells a made-up story. In these stories, there is an "Aerospace Support Project" that uses a changed version of the Gemini spacecraft. The goal in the stories is to find and stop Soviet satellites that might have nuclear weapons on them.