1. Project Gemini

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

4. Launch
All Gemini Missions used Titan II Rockets

5. 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.

6. Remaining Mercury Astronauts
Alan Shepard
Gus Grissom
Gordon Cooper
Wally Schirra

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

8. 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

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

10. 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.

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

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

13. 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

14. 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

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

16. 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

17. 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

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

19. 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

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

21. 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