Gemini VI-A

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

13:37:26

Wednesday December 15, 1965

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First manned rendezvous with another spacecraft

Gemini VI-A

Wiki

Gemini 6A (officially Gemini VI-A) was a 1965 manned United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. The mission achieved the first manned rendezvous with another spacecraft, its sister Gemini 7.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

3,546 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


7th

Mission

6th

Mission of 1965

1965


115th

Orbital launch attempt