The Launchpad

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The Gemini Program

The Gemini missions were NASA's first multimanned missions. The Gemini project was designed as a warm-up for a lunar landing. The Gemini spacecraft held two people. The total weight with men and equipment was about 3 tons. There were 10 manned flights from 1965 to 1966.

Gemini Program Objectives

complete long endurance missions (up to two weeks)
complete an orbital rendezvous
complete a land landing (this goal was abandoned)

Astronauts: 1962 Class

Edward H. White, II
James A. McDivitt
John W. Young
Elliot M. See, Jr.
Charles Conrad, Jr.
Frank Borman
Neil A. Armstrong
Thomas P. Stafford
James A. Lovell, Jr.

Astronauts: 1963 Class

Michael Collins
R. Walter Cunningham
Donn F. Eisele
Theodore C. Freeman
Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
Russell L. Schweickart
David R. Scott
Clifton c. Williams, Jr.
Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr.
William A. Anders
Charles A. Bassett, II
Eugene A. Cernan
Roger B. Chaffee
Alan L. Bean

Gemini Missions

Mission	Date	Crew	Duration	Notes
3	Mar 23, 1965	Grissom, Young	4 hr 53 min	first American multimanned mission; 3 orbits
4	Jun 3-7, 1965	McDivitt, White	4 days 1 hr 57 min	White made first American spacewalk, lasted 36 min; 62 orbits
5	Aug 21-29, 1965	Cooper, Conrad	7 days 22 hr 56 min	.
6A	Dec 15-16, 1965	Schirra, Stafford	.	15 orbits
7	Dec 4-18, 1965	Borman, Lovell	.	Gemini 6A and 7 completed the first American rendezvous in space; 206 orbits
8	Mar 16-17, 1966	Armstrong, Scott	10 hr 42 min	mission cut short because of engine trouble; 7 orbits
9A	May 17, 1966	Cernan, Stafford	.	mission cut short because Agena docking target failed
10	Jul 18-21, 1966	Collins, Young	2 days 22 hr 47 min	docked with Agena target; went further into space than ever before
11	Sep 12, 1966	Conrad, Gordon	7 hr 17 min	completed docking within 94 min; 44 orbits
12	Nov 11-15, 1966	Aldrin, Lovell	3 days 22 hr 24 min	practiced docking