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I dunno, I tend to be lazy so whenever I get around to it I guess.
Guess why.
In all seriousness though, Gemini is largely ignored, even by space/spacecraft enthusiasts. There's the entire Virtual AGC project dedicated to getting every single engineering spec, diagram, and document even tangentially related to Apollo, and Mercury is well known as it's the first manned U.S. space program, but Gemini is largely ignored despite the fact that most of the pre–moon-landing accomplishments were done by Gemini, not Mercury. There doesn't really seem to be a central repository dedicated to Project Gemini stuff, so who knows, maybe this will become the definitive central source.
I love space and the history of spaceflight so I knew more than usual about the whole U.S. line of programs, so the first thing that came to mind when I discovered the Gemini Protocol was that it'd be a funny a joke because haha gemini on gemini, but I was inspired to actually do it so here we are.
Well, there's a wealth of information about the computers thanks to the Virtual AGC project, but the reason I know about their archives in the first place is because I have a (probably unattainable) goal of building a model Apollo Guidance Computer. I wouldn't model the computing part of the computer itself (hand-made core memory doesn't sound fun to replicate), I'd probably use an atmega128 or something similar (It'd be more of a model DSKY with a simulated AGC). But anyways, I have a particular interest in those early guidance computers because it's just so amazing that they could do so much with so little, even if they did have the assistance of a human pilot.
well sure, if you have some source that i don't have mentioned anywhere then send it to me at alex@nytpu.com, or see my about page for other methods of contact:
Since all of the work I'm pulling from for this project is licensed in the public domain, it feels unfair that work I contribute would have restrictions that the rest of the documents don't. Since my work here is primarily derivative anyways, I'd feel particularly scummy taking public domain work and turning it into a copyright restricted work. The main reason I usually use copyleft licenses in the first place is to stop companies from taking my freely given work and making a proprietary copy, and relicensing public domain under copyleft feels similar (although it's obviously not as bad since copyleft is still open).
As a side-note since I'm talking about copyright here, but how can the government restrict the use of public domain works (use of nasa insignia is restricted under 14 cfr 1221)? I get that they're the government so they can just do whatever they want, but it's weird that they wouldn't just make a public domain exception instead of releasing it into the public domain and then proceeding to restrict use.