If Gemini 8 had failed, ... 1962. A light went on in Mission Control indicating that Glenn’s heat shield was loose, which meant he would burn up in the atmosphere during reentry.

Similarly, Gemini’s heat shield was made from a paste-like silicone elastomer material which was poured into a fiberglass honeycomb form. While the Avcoat that is being applied to Orion is pretty much ...

GEMINI IV Capsule and Heat Shield. Back in the 1960s during the early crewed missions, heat shields kept our astronauts safe upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

HOUSTON — On March 23, 1965, Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, ... followed by a heat shield-protected reentry. A drogue parachute deployed at 50,000 feet, ...

Once they are in orbit, the spacemen will crawl through a hatch in the Gemini heat shield and enter the lab. For the return to earth, they will simply reverse the procedure, then detach from the ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin originally intended for Orion's heat shield to be monolithic, or installed as a single unit, as it was for the Apollo command module that went to the Moon in the late ...