Project Gemini

The Capsule Two Occupants Very Similar to the Mercury Capsule Astronauts unable to get out of seats to move around.

Launch All Gemini Missions used Titan II Rockets

The Titan II Rocket Originally designed to be an ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile) Utilized a more toxic fuel (Nitrogen tetroxide and Hydrazine) Atlas used liquid oxygen Could be stored for long periods of time Easily readied for launch Used to launch satellites until 2003.

Remaining Mercury Astronauts Alan Shepard Gus Grissom Gordon Cooper Wally Schirra

The New Nine (September 1962) Neil Armstrong Frank Borman Charles “Pete” Conrad Jim Lovell James McDivitt Elliot See Thomas Stafford Ed White John Young

Astronaut Group 3 (October 1963) Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin William Anders Charles Bassett Alan Bean Eugene Cernan Roger Chaffee Michael Collins Walter Cunningham Donn Eiselle Theodore Freeman Richard Gordon Russell Schweickart David Scott Clifton Williams

Astronaut Group 3 Four died in training accidents before making it to space: Charles Bassett Roger Chaffee Theodore Freeman Clifton Williams

Elliot See and Charles Bassett Chosen for Gemini 9 Died in a plane crash less than 4 months prior to launch Poor visibility due to bad weather is believe to have been the cause of the crash.

Gemini 1 and 2 Unmanned Missions Gemini 1: Test Flight of Gemini Spacecraft April 1964 Gemini 2: Suborbital Flight Tested Heat Shield January 1965

Gemini 3 Grissom & Young March 1965 3 Orbits, 4 hr and 52 min

Gemini 4 McDivitt & White June 1965 4 days, 1 hr and 56 min First American ‘Space Walk’ EVA (Extravehicular Activity) White attempted to complete work for 22 minutes

Gemini 5 Cooper & Conrad August 1965 7 days, 22 hr and 55 min 120 Orbits Endurance Flight (nearly 8 days) Evaluated Equipment for Rendezvous Missions

Gemini 7 Borman & Lovell December 1965 13 days, 18 hr and 35 min Rendezvous Target for Gemini 6 Mission Endurance Mission of 14 days

Gemini 6 Schirra & Stafford December 1965 1 day, 1 hr and 51 min First space rendezvous Ranged from 1 ft to 300 ft from Gemini 7 Kept pace with Gemini 7 for over 5 hours

Gemini 8 Armstrong & Scott March 1966 10 hr and 41 min Docked in space with another (unmanned) vehicle First Emergency Landing of Manned US Space Mission

Gemini 9 Stafford & Cernan June 1966 3 days, 0 hr and 21 min Failed docking attempt 2 EVAs 3 Additional Rendezvous

Gemini 10 Young & Collins July 1966 2 days, 22 hr and 47 min Docked with Agena Target Vehicle and used that vehicle’s propulsion systems 2 EVAs 1 to collect data from the Agena

Gemini 11 Conrad & Gordon Sept 1966 2 days, 23 hr and 17 min 2 EVAs Reached a record altitude above Earth 850 miles

Gemini 12 Lovell & Aldrin November 1966 3 days, 22 hr and 35 min Rendezvous & Dock with Agena 2 EVAs Set record of 5 hr and 30 min Demonstrated solutions to previous EVA problems