Gemini Photographs: Photographs from Gemini 1, 2 and 3

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Gemini Photographs: Photographs from Gemini 1, 2 and 3

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National Archives at Fort Worth

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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 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 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 "...