Gemini Space Mission
Ten gemini crews and sixteen individual astronauts flew low earth orbit leo missions during 1965 and 1966.
Gemini space mission. It was the 17th crewed american flight and the 25th spaceflight to that time includes x 15 flights over 100 kilometers 54 nmi. And to further understand the effects of longer space flights on astronauts. The mission was to include four dockings with the agena target vehicle.
Designed as a bridge between the mercury and apollo programs the gemini program primarily tested equipment and mission procedures and trained astronauts and ground crews for future apollo missions. Just as orion and the international space station are helping nasa learn how to go to mars the gemini program defined and tested the skills nasa would need to go to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s. Launch and booster separation the gemini program was conducted between 1964 and 1967 to give nasa engineers and astronauts information about spacecraft maneuvering rendezvous and ground control and about human performance in microgravity in preparation for the apollo voyages to the moon.
The gemini program consisted of a total of 19 launches 2 initial uncrewed test missions 7 target vehicles and 10 crewed missions each of which carried two astronauts to earth orbit. To test an astronaut s ability to fly long duration missions up to two weeks in space. It was to land in the western atlantic ocean south of bermuda.
Gemini was a nasa spaceflight program that paved the way for the moon landings. Gemini was an early nasa human spaceflight program. The original gemini 6 mission scheduled for launch on october 25 1965 at 12 41 pm edt had a planned mission duration of 46 hours 47 minutes completing a total of 29 orbits.
The flight also include. Ten crews flew during gemini. Gemini was an early nasa program.
The highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an american during which white floated free outside the spacecraft tethered to it for approximately 20 minutes. Gemini 4 was the second crewed spaceflight in nasa s project gemini occurring in june 1965. To understand how spacecraft could rendezvous and dock in orbit around the earth and the moon.