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Gemini Project
 
The second U.S. manned space program was announced in January 1962. Its two-man crew gave its name ,GEMINI . Project Gemini was a transitional step between the Mercury program and the actual landing a man on the moon. Its success was critical to achieving the goal of reaching the MOON. The main objectives of the ten Gemini missions spanning a period of 20 months from 1965 to 1966 were: 1) To subject man and equipment to space flight up to two weeks in duration . 2) To Rendezvousing and docking with other orbit vehicle, 3) To perfect methods of entering the atmosphere and landing at preselected point on land. which were essential skills for the later apollo missions. With Gemini, american erased all doubts that we could make it to the moon. Gemini did many other things such as rendezvous and docking.
        The Gemini craft was an enlargement of the Mercury capsule and the size were 5.8 m (19 ft )long , 3 m.( 10 ft ) in diameter , it had to fit two astronauts. Gemini was composed of two major components , the Adapter Module and Re-entry Module. Prior to Re-entry , the Re-entry Module was seperated from Adapter Module which will be remained in orbits with no provision for recovery.The Titan rocket , more powerful than Redstone ,placed the larger spacecraft into orbit. Only the first capsule that has the nicknamed " MOLLY BROWN ".
 
Manned space flight for Gemini Project
Dated
Mission
Crew
Spacecraft
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
March 23 , 1965
Gemini 3
Gus Grissom , John Young
Molly Brown
Titan
4 hrs.52 min.31 sec.
First manned Gemini flight , three orbits.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
June 3-7 , 1965
Gemini 4
James Mcdivitt , Edward White
Titan
4 days 1 hr. 56 min.12 sec.
First ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA):White's "space walk "was the first space walk and duration of 22 min. EVA exercise.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
August 21-29 , 1965
Gemini 5
Gordon Cooper , Charles Conrad
Titan
7 days 22 hrs.55 min.14 sec.
Evaluated guidance and navigation system for future rendezvous missions. Completed 120 orbits.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
December 4-18 , 1965
Gemini 7
Frank Borman , James Lovell
Titan
13 days 18 hrs.35 min.1 sec.
Gemini 7 was used for rendezvous due to Gemini 6 was scrubbed .The primary objective was to determine whether humans could live in space for 14 days.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
December 15-16 , 1965
Gemini 6A
Walter Schirra , Thomas Stafford
Titan
1 day 1 hrs.51 min.24 sec.
First space rendezvous accomplished with Gemini 7 ,station keeping for over 5 hrs. at distances from 0.3 to 90 m.(1 to 295 ft).
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
March 16 , 1966
Gemini 8
Neil Armstrong , David Scott
Titan
10 hrs.41 min.26 sec.
Accomplised first docking with another space vehicle , an unmanned Agena stage.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
June 3-6 , 1966
Gemini 9A
Thomas Stafford , Eugene Cernan
Titan
3 days 21 hrs.
To rendezvous and docking with augmented target docking adapter (ATDA) after original Agena target failed to orbit.Three different types of rendezvous, 2 hrs. of EVA, and 44 orbits were completed.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
July 18-21 , 1966
Gemini 10
John Young , Michael Collins
Titan
2 days 22 hrs.46 min.39 sec.
First use of Agena target vehicle's propulsion systems. Spacecraft also rendezvoused with Gemini 8 target vehicle.Collins had 49 min. of EVA standing in the hatch and 39 min. of EVA to retrieve experiment from Agena stage. 43 orbits completed.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
September 12-15 , 1966
Gemini 11
Charles Conrad , Richard Gordon
Titan
2 day 23 hrs.17 min.8 sec.
Gemini record altitude , 1189.3 km.(739.2 mi),reached using Agena propulsion system after first orbit rendezvous and docking. Gordon made 33 min. EVA and 2 hrs.stand up EVA. 44 orbits.
 
Dated
Mission
Crew
Launch Vehicle
Duration
Milestone
November11-15 , 1966
Gemini 12
James Lovell , Buzz Aldrin
Titan
3 days 22 hrs.34 min. 31 sec.
Final Gemini flight. Rendezvoused and docking with its target Agena and kept station with it during EVA . Aldrin performed 1 space walk and 2 standup excercises totaling 5 hrs.30 min. of EVA time.
 
^ Gemini 5 Splashdown
^ Gemini 6 and 7 Rendezvous.
^ Gemini 8 is docking to Agena target
^ Gemini 11 and conrad
^ Gemini 11 seperated from docking
^ Gemini 11 Target launch
^ Australia , view from Gemini 11
^ Gemini 12 , Agena target
^ Gemini 12 Spacecraft
^ Gemini12,Edwin E Aldrin,jr.space walk
^ Egyp and nile river from gemini 12
 

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