> > I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.
> > Ed Farrell
> I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.

yep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early 1961.. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of Wynnum in Florence Street. I went to see it there. I have somewhat of a photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date. But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!, didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and a half years old then )

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>> > I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in
>> > the 60s.
>> > Ed Farrell
>> I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018.
>> Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the
>> Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
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>yep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early
>1961. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on
>a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of
>Wynnum in Florence Street. I went to see it there. I have somewhat of a
>photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date.
>But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!,
>didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and a half years old
>then )

Couldn't have been 1960. Gemini's first flight was 1964 (uncrewed Gemini 1)
and 10 didn't fly until 1966.

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On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7:52:23 PM UTC+8, Big Robbie wrote:
> > > I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.
> > > Ed Farrell
> > I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018.. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
> yep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early 1961. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of Wynnum in Florence Street. I went to see it there. I have somewhat of a photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date. But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!, didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and a half years old then )

Dear Ed,

You are NOT going mad and your memory was SPOT ON.

It was Gemini 10 and I've spent nearly 15 years trying to chase this one down. It was on display outside the Perth Town Hall on the 21st August 1967 (Ref: "The West Australian Newspaper, 21 August 1967, Page 7") after being trucked down from Kalgoorlie (having flown the year before with none other than one Michael Collins being co-pilot - he of course being on the Apollo 11 crew a few years later). Dare I presume it was trucked over from Adelaide over the Nullarbor thus it being in Kalgoorlie BEFORE it came to Perth. It went on "north bound" to Geraldton and Carnarvon and perhaps some other country areas. Carnarvon of course, was picked as a destination due to the Space Tracking Station up there (still is actually but not sure how "used" it is nowadays).

7000 people saw it in one day in Perth (when Perth's population was a heady 500,000 people) - myself included (well my mother took me - I was 6 years of age). The crowd pushed us through so quickly and I was bitterly disappointed - must have shown as my mother and I rejoined the queue again. It was "School Holidays" time (August school holidays - back when we had "3 school terms" a year not the "4 Semesters" they have now).

The Gemini Capsule now resides in a Space Museum, in Hutchinson, Kansas (just N/W of Wichita, Kansas, USA) after being in Norway for many, many years.

Hope that helps.

Quentin
Perth, Western Australia

On Saturday, September 17, 2022 at 2:13:28 PM UTC+10, Quentin Hall wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at 7:52:23 PM UTC+8, Big Robbie wrote:
> > > > I remember that gemini capsule. I saw it at whyalla airport as a kid in the 60s.
> > > > Ed Farrell
> > > I made enquiries at the Johnson Space Centre when I visited in May 2018. Apparently it was the Gemini 10 capsule that I saw as a young boy at the Brisbane showground Pavillion in the 60's and it was the real deal.
> > yep I remember those days, it was about late 1960, may have been early 1961. Gemini 10. It was at the Brisbane Showgrounds but it spent a day on a low loader in the Coles shopping centre carpark of the bayside suburb of Wynnum in Florence Street. I went to see it there. I have somewhat of a photographic memory and if I try hard enough I can even give you a date. But the thing that struck me was it was burnt black, and I thought "huh!!, didn't they bother to clean it??" ( hahah I was only 4 and a half years old then )
> Dear Ed,
>
>
> You are NOT going mad and your memory was SPOT ON.
>
> It was Gemini 10 and I've spent nearly 15 years trying to chase this one down. It was on display outside the Perth Town Hall on the 21st August 1967 (Ref: "The West Australian Newspaper, 21 August 1967, Page 7") after being trucked down from Kalgoorlie (having flown the year before with none other than one Michael Collins being co-pilot - he of course being on the Apollo 11 crew a few years later). Dare I presume it was trucked over from Adelaide over the Nullarbor thus it being in Kalgoorlie BEFORE it came to Perth. It went on "north bound" to Geraldton and Carnarvon and perhaps some other country areas. Carnarvon of course, was picked as a destination due to the Space Tracking Station up there (still is actually but not sure how "used" it is nowadays).
>
> 7000 people saw it in one day in Perth (when Perth's population was a heady 500,000 people) - myself included (well my mother took me - I was 6 years of age). The crowd pushed us through so quickly and I was bitterly disappointed - must have shown as my mother and I rejoined the queue again. It was "School Holidays" time (August school holidays - back when we had "3 school terms" a year not the "4 Semesters" they have now).
>
> The Gemini Capsule now resides in a Space Museum, in Hutchinson, Kansas (just N/W of Wichita, Kansas, USA) after being in Norway for many, many years.
>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Quentin
> Perth, Western Australia
I SAW IT IN tOOWOOMBA 1968/9 AT ACRA DEALER SHIP.