Came here for the whoop, stayed for the rocket

Just to let the younger people know, the actual TV images at the time were much better than this video. I am glad they preserved this but it doesn't accurately reflect what people were able to watch at the time.

My dad used to wake me up early in the morning in the West Coast (San Fernando Valley) to watch every launch. I was just a kid, but I saw every launch of Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, through Apollo 13. Then I was in the Navy and missed a few.

Beeeeewwwwwwwhooooooooop! I love the sound of rockets and turbo-pumps.

You think those highly trained astronauts wouldn't grind the clutch like that.

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I just love the sounds of those turbopumps blasting on at liftoff thank you so much for posting this, was 10 years to the week before I was born!

Admit it, most of the viewers of this video were only here for the bwoop (myself included).

The bravery of these men is off the scale.

Just to hear Jack King count it down, baby!

I remember watching this very liftoff as a young child. We have lost quite a bit of the video over the years. I remember the sky as a pure, vivid blue. The rocket itself was a more pure silver/gray with clean white paint. I remember Walter Cronkite’s voice very vividly. On the other hand, I didn’t hear the turbo pumps back then. Such are memories.

Man, the sound of that starting is awesome! The ignition sounds better than the Space Shuttle!

Yes Pandora's Angel, Love that whoop. I wish launches were done as straight-forward now as they were then, no "the dream continues" bs. The engineers just launch, go, have a martini lunch and do it again a month later.

This is great...never thought I would see actual Gemini TV coverage! Keep more coming please!

I love the on-screen display. It was just a billboard with a label and an analog flop clock, merged into the TV feed. Computer-generated OSDs were decades away.

Superb coverage - thanks for this ! Very classy production for 1965. This is better in some ways to the later Apollo era, and way better than the coverage in the 80's, which has dated badly.

I remember this launch! My dad got me into the space program as soon as I could walk. I was seven here.

The portion of the Titan II booster stage that was recovered was from Gemini 5.The fragment was on display at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

America can really be proud of its entire space program. It gives hope for all mankind.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Stafford a few times in the last 25 years. An amazing generation of flyers and astronauts, the like of which we'll never see again.