Gemini 3

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

14:24:00

Tuesday March 23, 1965

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Mission Details

Gemini 3

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Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. This was the ninth manned US spaceflight (including two X-15 flights over 100 kilometers), and the 17th world human spaceflight including eight Soviet flights. It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, before mission control functions were shifted to a new control center located at the newly opened Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

3,237 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Titan II GLV

Active 1964 to 1966

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Rocket

Height: 33.2m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 3,580 kg

Liftoff Thrust

1,913 Kilonewtons

Stages

2

Launch Site

LC-19

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

10 days 18 hours

Stats

Titan II


3rd

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1965

1965


28th

Orbital launch attempt