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Gemini 1 was the first mission in NASA's Gemini program. [2] An uncrewed test flight of the Gemini spacecraft, its main objectives were to test the structural integrity of the new spacecraft and modified Titan II launch vehicle. It was also the first test of the new tracking and communication systems for the Gemini program and provided training ...
Project Gemini (IPA: / ˈ dʒ ɛ m ɪ n i /) was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly. Conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in early development, Gemini was conceived in 1961 and concluded in 1966.
[1] [2] Gemini was the second phase in the United States space program's larger goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" before the end of the 1960s, as proposed by president John F. Kennedy. As an intermediary step, Gemini afforded its astronauts the opportunity to gain critical spaceflight experience ...
Neil B. Hutchinson, Silver Flight. Apollo missions 16, 17 and Apollo-Soyuz. [2] Flight activities officer (FAO) The FAO planned and supported crew activities, checklists, procedures and schedules. Flight dynamics officer (FDO or FIDO) Responsible for the flight path of the space vehicle, both atmospheric and orbital.
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 .
Wally Schirra (2) Thomas P. Stafford (1) 15 December 1965 Gemini 6A: 16 December 1965 Gemini 6A: First space rendezvous, with Gemini 7. 22 Neil Armstrong (1) David Scott (1) 16 March 1966 Gemini 8: 17 March 1966 Gemini 8: First docking in space in history with Agena Target Vehicle Planned EVA canceled due to early re-entry necessitated by stuck ...
The facility was expanded in 1963 to support Project Gemini by contractor Pan American World Airways to provide more meeting space along with space for data analysis, and a large space for a new Gemini spacecraft trainer. [1] The more complex requirements of later Gemini and Apollo flights forced control operations to move to a larger facility ...
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.