MSC-G-R-66-5: Gemini Program-Flight Summary Report- Gemini Missions I through XII
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Gemini VIII (Spacecraft)
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Gemini VIII was launched on March 16, 1966, with Neil A. Armstrong serving as commander of the mission and David R. Scott serving as pilot. The primary objectives of the Gemini VIII mission were to rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena target vehicle 5003 (GATV-5003) and conduct extra-vehicular activity (EVA) operations. The secondary objectives of the mission included rendezvous and docking in the fourth revolution; performing docked-vehicle maneuvers; evaluating systems; and conducting ten ex...
Gemini 2 (Spacecraft)
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Gemini 2 was an unmanned flight in the U.S. Gemini program. Gemini 2 was launched on a Titan II rocket. The flight was a suborbital test of various systems. It later became the first spacecraft flown into space twice when it was sent on an unmanned military mission Gemini 2 lifted off from Launch Complex 19 at Cape Kennedy on January 19, 1965 at 9:03:59 a.m. EST (14:03:59.861 UT). It flew a ballistic suboribtal arch over the Atlantic Ocean reaching a maximum altitude of 171.2 km. The spacecra...
Gemini V (Spacecraft)
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Gemini V was launched on August 21, 1965, with L. Gordon Cooper serving as commander of the mission and Charles Conrad, Jr. serving as pilot. The primary objectives of the Gemini V mission included evaluating rendezvous of the Guidance and Navigation (G&N) system with the radar evaluation pod (REP); demonstrating the eight-day capability of spacecraft and crew; and evaluating the effects of weightlessness for an eight-day flight. The secondary objectives of the mission included demonstrating con...
Gemini 10 (Spacecraft)
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Gemini X was launched on July 18, 1966, with John W. Young serving as commander of the mission and Michael Collins serving as pilot. The primary objective of the Gemini X mission was to rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena target vehicle 5005 (GATV-5005). The secondary objectives of the mission included rendezvous and docking in the fourth revolution; rendezvous with Gemini 8 Agena target vehicle (GATV-8) using Agena propulsion systems; conducting extra-vehicular activity (EVA); practicing dock...
Gemini VII (Spacecraft)
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Gemini VII was launched on December 4, 1965, with Frank Borman serving as commander of the mission and James A. Lovell serving as pilot. The primary objective of the Gemini VII mission was to evaluate the effects of a 14-day mission on crew. The secondary objectives of the Gemini VII mission included targeting for Gemini VI-A; stationkeeping with Gemini VI-A and with the second stage of the Gemini launch vehicle (GLV); conducting 20 experiments; evaluating the lightweight pressure suit; evaluati...
Gemini 11 (Spacecraft)
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Gemini XI was launched on September 12, 1966, with Charles Conrad, Jr. serving as commander of the mission and Richard F. Gordon, Jr. serving as pilot. The primary objective of the Gemini XI mission was to rendezvous and dock with Gemini Agena target vehicle 5006 (GATV-5006). The mission's secondary objectives included practicing docking; performing extra-vehicular activity (EVA); conducting 11 experiments; maneuvering while docked; conducting tethered vehicle testing; demonstrating automatic re...
Gemini 1 (Spacecraft)
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Gemini 1 was a 1964 unmanned space flight in NASA's Gemini program. Gemini 1 was the first unmanned test flight of the Gemini spacecraft. Its main objectives were to test the structural integrity of the new spacecraft and modified Titan II ICBM. As well as this it would be the first test of the new tracking and communication systems for the Gemini program and provided training for the ground support crews for the first manned missions....
Gemini IV (Spacecraft)
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Gemini IV, which was launched on June 3, 1965, was the second manned mission of the Gemini space program, as well as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) first extra-vehicular activity (EVA) operation. James A. McDivitt served as commander of the mission and Edward H. White II served as pilot. The primary objectives of the Gemini IV mission included evaluating the effects of prolonged space flight on spacecraft and systems and evaluating procedures for crew rest and work...
Gemini IX-A (Spacecraft)
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Gemini IX-A was launched on June 3, 1966, with Thomas P. Stafford serving as commander of the mission and Eugene A. Cernan serving as pilot. The primary objective of the Gemini IX-A mission was to perform rendezvous and docking and to conduct extra-vehicular activity (EVA). Secondary objectives of the mission included rendezvous with an augmented target docking adapter (ATDA); systems evaluation and equiperiod rendezvous; and the execution of seven experiments. The mission's primary objectiv...
Gemini 3 (Spacecraft)
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Gemini 3 was a 1965 manned space flight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the first manned Gemini flight, the ninth manned American flight and the 17th manned spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometres). Its crew included Virgil I. Grissom, Command Pilot and John W. Young, Pilot. This first manned flight of the Gemini spacecraft was very much a test flight. In a playful reference to the Broadway hit The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Grissom nicknamed the Gemini 3 spacecraft "...
Gemini 12 (Spacecraft)
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Gemini XII was launched on November 11, 1966, with James A. Lovell, Jr. serving as commander of the mission and Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin serving as pilot. The primary objectives of the Gemini XII mission included rendezvous, docking, and evaluation of extra-vehicular activity (EVA). The mission's secondary objectives included operating tethered vehicles; performing 14 experiments, rendezvous and docking in the third revolution; demonstrating automatic re-entry; performing docked maneuvers; practic...
Gemini VI-A (Spacecraft)
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Gemini VI-A was launched on December 15, 1965, with Walter M. Schirra, Jr. serving as commander of the mission and Thomas P. Stafford serving as pilot. The primary objective of the Gemini VI-A mission was to rendezvous with Gemini-VII. The secondary objectives of the Gemini VI-A mission included performing closed-loop rendezvous in the fourth orbit; stationkeeping with Gemini VII; evaluating re-entry guidance capability; conducting visibility tests for rendezvous, using Gemini VII as a target; ...
