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New Old Photos Show Neil Armstrong After Gemini 8
A simple story about the photos, the emergency, and Armstrong's calm response.
Based on source story: These Never-Before-Seen Photos Show Astronaut Neil Armstrong Relaxed and Smiling After He Almost Died in the Gemini 8 Emergency from Smithsonian Magazine
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New old show Neil Armstrong after a very dangerous space trip in 1966. He and David Scott were on Gemini 8 when a problem made their spacecraft very fast. They had to end the mission early and landed in the Pacific near Okinawa, Japan.
The were taken when the astronauts returned to land. Few reporters were there because the landing was not planned for that place. A military police officer named Ron McQueeney was one of the people who took pictures, and his family has now given them to Armstrong's museum in Ohio.
Gemini 8 had already done an important first step by joining with another spacecraft in space. Then a bad almost killed the crew. Armstrong stayed turned off the problem, and helped bring the capsule home. Historians say this way of thinking later helped him become the leader of Apollo 11.
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