Gemini TTV-1

Artifact — Date: 2019 | Photo by: Chris Griffith

This full-scale, crewed Test Tow Vehicle (TTV) was built to test the Gemini paraglider wing in flight. Eight times a helicopter released the TTV, wings deployed, over the dry lake bed at Edwards Air Force Base, where it landed. Although never used to recover a crewed spacecraft, the Paraglider Landing System Program proved useful in developing alternate landing techniques.

Type: Gemini
Kind: Boilerplate
Flight: TTV-1
Location: Udvar-Hazy Center, National Air and Space Museum, Chantilly, Virginia