NASA Project Tapes, 1963/1966

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], NASA Project Tapes, Ms2001-020, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.4 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Abstract:
This collection contains 16 reel to reel audio tapes of various NASA projects from 1963 through 1966. These tapes include news conferences from Kennedy Space Center and pertaining to Projects Gemini and Mercury, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, and other astronauts. These tapes also include some recordings of launchings and landings from these projects.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], NASA Project Tapes, Ms2001-020, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises 16 reel to reel audiotapes of various NASA projects and news conferences from the Kennedy Space Center from 1963 through 1966. The tapes pertain to Project Mercury and Project Gemini (3, 4, 5, 7, 9, and 11). Some tapes include audio of launching and landing from the projects. The crew members included from Project Mercury are John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Shirra, and L. Gordon Cooper, and the crew members from Project Gemini are Gus Grissom, James A. McDivitt, Edward H. White II, Eugene A. Cernan, Thomas P. Stafford, Pete Conrad, Gordon Cooper, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and John Young.

Side 1 - Meeting

Side 2 - John Noble (?)

Side 1 - Carpenter #2 landing

Side 2 - Tennesse Ernie Ford

Side 1 - Second Astronaut, Carpenter #1

Side 2 - Little over 3 hours of flight, thru 11:41am

Side 1 - Third Astronaut (Walter) Wally M. Shirra

Side 2 - Walter M. Shirra - almost 1st half of 2nd side, Lots of Pete towards end

Side 1 - L. Gordon Cooper's take off

Side 2 - Grace Carr

Gemini 4 flight take off about 10:15am, McDivitt, White - last part of the tape

Side 1 - Landing of Gemini 4

Side 2 - Last half - landing from Wasp and boarding plane for Houston, Very last - news conference

Side 1 - News Conference of McDivitt and White

Side 2 - Launching, Cernan and Stafford, Successful landing of Gemini 9, Gemini 11 - just a few feet left on end

Side 1 - Shirra and Stafford did not go, Atlas Agena did not go, Gemini VII Frank Borman - Jim Lovell, Splash down, 9:05am

Side 2 - News report of Neil Armstrong, David Scott, not all used, Agena - 10:15am lost the bird, Gemini 9 scrubbed for today

Side 1 - Gemini III "Molly Brown", 2-man shot, Grissom, Young

Side 2 - Splash down, News conference

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated to Special Collections and University Archives in June 2001.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the NASA Project Tapes commenced and was completed in January 2020. Minimal description was previously completed in 2014.

Arrangement:

The collection is primaily arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard