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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 .
Two retired Titan II missiles are on display repainted as Gemini Launch Vehicles, along with a few replicas. A retired Titan II missile, repainted as GLV-3 12558 (Gemini 3), is on display at KSC Rocket Garden since 2010. [8] Another retired Titan II missile, repainted as GLV-9 12564 (Gemini 9A), is on display at the Stafford Air & Space Museum. [9]
Gemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown .
Gemini Mission Control in Houston during Gemini 5. In April 1964 and January 1965, two Gemini missions were flown without crews to test systems and the heat shield. These were followed by 10 flights with crews in 1965 and 1966. All were launched by Titan II launch vehicles. Some highlights from the Gemini program:
It was launched by the Titan II rocket flying from Launch Complex 19 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. [2] In total, twelve missions were launched, ten of which were crewed. Following two uncrewed test flights, the first crewed flight, Gemini 3, was launched on 23 March 1965.
Gemini 3: First crewed Titan launch 25 March ... Titan III(23)E/Star-37E: 23E-2 ... Spacecraft later recovered and reboosted by Space Shuttle Endeavour on mission STS ...
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The Gemini astronauts were sixteen pilots who flew in Project Gemini, NASA's second human spaceflight program, between projects Mercury and Apollo. Carrying two astronauts at a time, a senior command pilot and a junior pilot, the Gemini spacecraft was used for ten crewed missions. Four of the sixteen astronauts flew twice.