Gemini 9 EVA Part 1

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1. This is a simulation
2. Coverage of as Eugene Cernan called it: "The Spacewalk from Hell"! Gene Cernan was to climb into the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit ( later flown on STS-41B, STS-41C, and STS-51A as well as led to the jetpack used on US spacewalks from the International Space Station called SAFER or Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue)and fly around the spacecraft like Buck Rogers. The reason why is NASA got overconfident after Ed White's Spacewalk on Gemini 4 and because of that Gene Cernan had a wrestling match with Sir Issac Newton's third law of motion (For Every Action There's an Equal and Opposite Reaction). It got bad to the point that his heart rate was an dizzying 170 bpm, tore several layers of his suit in cause first and second degree burns on his back and his visor was completely fogged over and by the time he got to the AMU he was already exhausted from the effort to the point that both he and Tom Stafford decided to terminate the EVA early. Blinded by the visor to point of passing out Gene finally made it back inside. After the EVA Tom sprayed water on Gene to cool him down because he looked like he just got out of the sauna after spending a long time in it.Gene had 100% humidity in his suit and lost 13 lbs doing his spacewalk.When they got back on the ground and got the suit off they had alot of water come out in the boot from the EVA. NASA had to rethink there approach to EVA especially after Mike Collins and Richard Gordon went through the same thing as well. They with Astronaut Buzz Aldrin decided to study the problem of spacewalking by taking the problem of working in space underwater in neutral buoyancy where you neither sink nor float and to everyone's surprise Buzz single-handedly invented the art of working in space to the point that NASA and ROSCOSMOS have anyone doing spacewalks practice there spacewalks underwater.
3. Quite sure all these studio reports were in NTSC colour. Still great to at least be able to see it. Is the source for this a b&w kinescope film recording of the original video signal? I'm guessing the original NTSC 2-inch Quad videotapes still exist in CBS's archives and maybe already digitized to a modern lossless format.
4. все на английском, нихрена не понятно, сделайте перевод на русский язык
5. This is exiting to watch even to this day!
6. I met Mr. Cernan on several occasions. He had an office over near I-10 and BW8 where I worked on occasion. Extremely nice man. Very friendly and unpretentious.
7. @altfactor - And CBS's St. Louis O&O of the time, KMOX-TV (now mere affiliate KMOV), though equipped with color film chains and slide scanners, did not yet have live studio color capacity (that came later in the year when they received Marconi Mark VII cameras). Also, notice announcer Harry Kramer's 15 kHz crystal-clear V/O, as opposed to the 5 kHz telco audio of Cronkite's feed.
8. @lcs1956 It was actually Fred Friendly in 1965 who used the term "Selective Coverage". During the first attempt to launch Gemini 5, CBS (and the other networks) went on the air at 7 A.M. EDT (liftoff was to be at 10 A.M. EDT). But the launch was scrubbed around 1:30 P.M. EDT, meaning the networks had been on for over six hours each. When the launch finally took place at 10 A.M. EDT two days later, CBS didn't go on until 9:30 (NBC and ABC also cut back, neither began coverage until 9 A.M. EDT).
9. The term "selective coverage" was a phrase introduced by CBS News President Richard Salant to refer to less than saturation coverage of space missions. There was much discussion at CBS about not staying on the air when nothing much was happening, and instead breaking in with "CBS News Space Alerts". 
10. I think this is a kinescope of the telecast.
11. I suspect this coverage originally aired in black-and-white since during the launch, an announcer remarked about "CBS News Selective Color Coverage". Here, the announcer introduces Walter Cronkite with "CBS News Selective Coverage". Note that Cronkite was in St. Louis at prime contractor McDonnell Aircraft and not at tyhe Cape, Houston, or New York.
12. To me the live shot of Cernan's heartrate from MCC is most interesting. He was struggling in that spacesuit and eventually his visor fogged up, causing much concern.