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The Race to the Moon
1965
March 23, 1965
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Mission: Gemini 3
Crew: Gus Grissom, John Young
Duration: 4 hours, 52 min, 31 s
Spacecraft: Molly Brown
Launch vehicle: Titan
Milestone: First manned Gemini flight, three orbits.
June 3-7, 1965
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Mission: Gemini 4
Crew: James McDivitt, Edward White
Duration: 4 days, 1 hour, 56 min, 12 s
Launch vehicle: Titan
Milestone: Included first extravehicular activity (EVA) by an American; White's "space walk" was a 22 minute EVA exercise.
August 21-29, 1965
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Mission: Gemini 5
Crew: Gordon Cooper, Charles Conrad
Duration: 7 days, 22 hours, 55 min, 14 s
Launch vehicle: Titan
Milestone: First use of fuel cells for electrical power on spacecraft; evaluated guidance and navigation system for future rendezvous missions. Completed 120 orbits.
December 4-18, 1965
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Mission: Gemini 7
Crew: Frank Borman, James Lovell
Duration: 13 days, 18 hours, 35 min, 1 s
Launch vehicle: Titan
Milestone: Gemini VI mission was scrubbed because its Agena target for rendezvous and docking failed. Therefore, Gemini VII was used for rendezvous instead. The primary objective was to determine whether humans could live in space for 14 days.
December 15-16, 1965
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Mission: Gemini 6A
Crew: Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford
Duration: 1 day, 1 hour, 51 min, 24 s
Launch vehicle: Titan
Milestone: First space rendezvous accomplished with Gemini VII, station-keeping for over five hours at distances from 0.3 to 90 m (1 to 295 ft).
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