Sunday 23 March 2014

March 23rd 1965 Gemini 3 launched by United States.

  • Gemini 3NASA launches the United States' first 2-person crew (Gus GrissomJohn Young) into Earth orbit.
  • Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamedMolly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight overall (including X-15 flights over 100 kilometers). It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, Florida before mission control functions were shifted to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas


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