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Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A) [2] was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the seventh crewed Gemini flight, the 15th crewed American flight and the 23rd spaceflight of all time (includes X-15 flights over 100 kilometers (62 mi; 54 nmi)).
The Gemini 9A modified mission launch was rescheduled for June 1, 1966, using the ATDA. However, the shroud that protected the docking adapter during launch failed to separate, due to lanyards being incorrectly secured with adhesive tape. Gemini 9A was launched on June 3, and when in orbit, the crew observed that the shroud of the ATDA had ...
Date/Time Configuration Serial Numbers ... Gemini 1: First Gemini launch, first orbital Titan launch 9 April ... Gemini 9A: Crewed flight 16 June 14:00:01
Many episodes of the television show I Dream of Jeannie featured launch pad and launch footage of various Gemini missions. Gemini , is a layer 7 telecom standard named after the Gemini missions. Its non-standard port number , 1965, is a reference to the first mission date.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rose into the night sky for an on-time liftoff of 8:32 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 on May 17, 2024. The rocket launch is seen from the Vero Beach High ...
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of its Starlink satellites is aiming for liftoff from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 9 p.m. with with four backup options tonight between 9:50 p.m. and 12: ...
NASA astronauts Suni Williams (left) Butch Wilmore pose after they arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on April 25, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, ahead of the Boeing Starliner Crew Flight Test.
The year 1966 saw the peak and the end of the Gemini program.The program proved that docking in space and human EVA's could be done safely. It saw the first launch of the Saturn IB rocket, an important step in the Apollo program, and the launch of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on a celestial object (the Moon).