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Gemini: Quick Facts

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Astronauts John W. Young (left) and Virgil I. Grissom inside their Gemini 3 spacecraft awaiting blastoff from Cape Kennedy on March 23, 1965. They successfully orbited the Earth three times in the first U.S. two-man spaceflight.
Ed White: space walk
Buzz Aldrin performing an extravehicular activity
Spacecraft launch against clear blue sky.
Charles Conrad, Jr., 1969
Gemini 7, as seen from Gemini 6, 1965
Thomas Stafford
Neil Armstrong, 1969
Cernan, Eugene
Gemini 10
Watch the launch and booster separation of Gemini spacecraft as it is lifted off the ground by a Titan II rocket
Witness the first extravehicular activity in space: a space walk performed by astronaut Edward White on the Gemini 4 mission
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Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
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Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin
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Michael Collins
Michael Collins
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Thomas Stafford
Thomas Stafford
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John W. Young
John W. Young
American astronaut
David Scott
David Scott
American astronaut
James A. Lovell, Jr.
Jim Lovell
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Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan
American astronaut
Frank Borman
Frank Borman
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Pete Conrad
American astronaut
Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper
American astronaut
Wally Schirra
Wally Schirra
American astronaut
Max Faget
Max Faget
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Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
American astronaut
Edward H. White II, 1964.
Edward H. White II
American astronaut
James McDivitt
James McDivitt
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