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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.
The Gemini 6 spacecraft is shown superimposed on the "twin stars" Castor and Pollux, for "Gemini". I designed the patch to locate in the sixth hour of celestial right ascension. This was the predicted celestial area where the rendezvous should occur (in the constellation Orion). It finally did occur there. Gemini 6A space-flown Fliteline ...
Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII) [5] was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the twelfth crewed American spaceflight, and the twentieth crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above the Kármán line .
The Space Race (Russian: космическая ... Rendezvous of Gemini 6 and 7, December 1965. Though delayed a year to reach its first flight, Gemini was able to ...
The second episode is centered on Project Gemini, the second American human spaceflight program. The episode shows how the astronauts trained for spaceflight. It features the first American spacewalk by Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White. It also features the first space rendezvous with Gemini 6 and 7 and a two-week-long mission on Gemini 7.
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, performing tasks ...
Gemini 7: 18 December 1965 Gemini 7: First two-week spaceflight. First space rendezvous in history with Gemini 6A. 21 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
Gemini 7 as seen from Gemini 6 during their rendezvous in Earth orbit in 1965 (NASA). Earth orbit rendezvous (EOR) is a method for conducting round trip human flights to the Moon, involving the use of space rendezvous to assemble, and possibly fuel, components of a translunar vehicle in low Earth orbit. [1]