Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Reentry Control System (RCS), Gemini VIII

Cylindrical, metallic, with canted 30 degree elliptical exhaust exit at end; two propellant feed-in pipes jutting out from top of cylinder, in V-pattern, with smaller pipes attached; nozzle, phenolic; the whole, encased in a rectangular wedge-shaped lucite or plexiglas block. Stamped in black on top: "25 lb Thruster Used on GEMINI VII 16 March 1966"; in black on bottom, at left, beneath the rear of the thruster: "ASTRONAUTS NEIL A. ARMSTRONG Command Pilot DAVID R. SCOTT Pilot" In black, on bottom, at right, beneath the top of the thruster: Displayed Thru the Courtesy of The SMITHSONIAN INSTIUTION and MCDONNELL DOUGLAS ASTRONAUITCS COMPANY