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layout: post
title:  "NASA Wakeup Calls: GEMINI 5 ⊹ Unknown by Al Hirt ✺ August 26, 1965"
blog_title: "GEMINI 5"
author: "NASA: Music to Wake Up By"
type: MusicPlaylist
date_modified: 1965-08-26
songs: ["Unknown by Al Hirt"]
genres: ["Jazz"]
---

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### DATE: August 26, 1965
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⊹ Unknown *by* Al Hirt ([Jazz](https://www.discogs.com/genre/Jazz)) 

#### Comment:
* From Gene Kranz "Failure is not an Option" (2000): "The next two days became really limited. The seesaw effect of powering up and down took a toll, and then the Gemini thrusters started to fail, further limiting the flight plan. With the crew in drifting flight and many experiments canceled, (James) McDivitt, now a CapCom, decided it was time to pipe some Al Hirt jazz up to the crew for wake-up. Another MCC tradition was born." (26 August is an approximate date)



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