Gemini 3
Launch Date
March 23, 1965
Craft
Gemini
Status
Past
Crew
2
Gemini 3
Launch Date
March 23, 1965
Craft
Gemini
Status
Past
Crew
2
Overview
The first human flight of NASA's Gemini Program saw two astronauts perform a three-orbit test flight of the new capsule. This mission marked the first time a human spacecraft changed its orbit using its onboard thrusters.
Crafts
Gemini
Gemini was a two-person spacecraft designed to prove technologies and procedures for the Apollo lunar landings. Crews proved rendezvous and docking as well as transfer from one ship to another via spacewalk were possible. Gemini demonstrated that humans could live and work in space for the length of time needed for a lunar flight.
