McDonnell-NASA Gemini Pamphlet

This full-color, six page pamphlet was published early in the program's life. It's a quick, interesting read that includes information on the para glider landing system which was in R&D for several years, but never reached development.

Full-color, 12 page McDonnell-Gemini pamphlet

News Articles

Click here to download an article about Dale Iffrig, former McDonnell employee during the Space Program. Reported by the Parks Hill Daily Journal.

"Forty years ago a fatal plane crash at Lambert Field nearly destroyed Project Gemini, the second phase of the country's journey to the moon. Later that year McDonnell Aircraft finished its pioneering work on the moon space program and another company took over—at a price NASA can never repay." Click to download this article--Losing the Moon--by the St. Louis Magazine.

Retiree Biographies and Documents

Phillips M. Brooks (Physiologist)

Mike de Garcia (Structural dynamics)

Vern Hawkins (Fuel cells)

Harry Tripp (Space experiments)

Nelson Weber (Fuel cells)

McDonnell Airscoop Newsletters: 1963-1966

Airscoop was the official employee newsletter at McDonnell for a number of years. Below are digital scans of Airscoop newsletters that relate to Project Gemini. They were kindly loaned to us by retired McDonnell employees Russell Ramberger and Ed Jeude.

You will need Adobe Acrobat to view these files on your computer. To save a newsletter, right click the link and choose "save target as." All of these newsletters are microfilmed in their entirety at WHMC in St. Louis.

	1963	1964	1965	1966
January				"Gemini 8 Delivered to Cape"
February		"First Gemini Flights Later This Year"	"Success of Second Gemini Sets Stage for First Two-Man Space Flight"
March		"Surrealist Touch in Gemini Welding"	"First Manned Gemini Space Flight Nears"	"Gemini 8 in First Space Docking"
April		"Docking Trainer Unveiled"	"Success of First Manned Gemini Flight Focuses World Spotlight on McDonnell"
May		"First Gemini Test Flight Success"	"Gemini No. 4 Launch Planned in June"	"Company's Backlog is $1 Billion"
June			"US Jubilant Over Gemini 4 Flight"
July
August	"A NATO General 'Flies' Gemini Mockup"
September	"Gemini: Second Generation Manned Spacecraft"	"Gemini No. 2 Delivery Nears"	"McDonnell Praised For Gemini V Roll"
October	"Gemini No. 1 At Cape"	"Gemini No. 2 Being Loaded for Delivery"
November	"Gemini: Rendezvous and Docking Missions"	"Gemini No. 2 Going Through Preflight At Cape"
December	"Gemini Trainer Goes to Cape"		"Geminis 7/6 Perform Historic First Rendezvous in Space"	***"Gemini--Saga of Space Pioneering"***