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Gemini 2 (Gemini-Titan 2; GT-2) [2] was the second spaceflight of the American human spaceflight program Project Gemini, and was launched and recovered on January 19, 1965. Gemini 2, like Gemini 1 , was an uncrewed mission intended as a test flight of the Gemini spacecraft .
Gemini 11 (officially Gemini XI) [2] was the ninth crewed spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini, which flew from September 12 to 15, 1966.It was the 17th crewed American flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (62 mi; 54 nmi)).
A Gemini-Titan II full-scale replica was erected for the 1964 New York World's Fair. It remains on display at the New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, NY. [10] Another full size replica is on display at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. [11] A third replica was displayed at the Parque de las Ciencias Luis A. Ferré, Bayamon, PR. [12]
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the ...
The first flight from LC-19 was on August 14, 1959 and ended in a pad explosion, extensively damaging the facility, which took a few months to repair. The first successful launch from LC-19 was also a Titan I, on February 2, 1960. After being converted for the Titan II ICBM program in 1962, LC-19 was later designated for the Gemini flights.
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When the original Gemini VI mission was scrubbed because the launch of the Agena docking target failed, Gemini VII was used as the rendezvous target instead. Primary objective was to determine whether humans could live in space for 14 days. Completed 206 orbits. Gemini VI-A: GLV-6 12561 SC6 Schirra: Stafford: 15–16 December 1965 13:37 UTC
11:52 Commercial Titan III: CT-2 CCAFS LC-40: Planned: GTO Actual: LEO: Partial failure Intelsat 603: Second stage failed to separate from kick motor, upper stage jettison successfully commanded to save payload Spacecraft later recovered and reboosted by Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS-49: 8 June 05:22 Titan IV(405)A: 45H-4 4A-4 K-4 ...