Key facts
- Mission type
- Endurance test
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1965-068A
- Mission duration
- 7 days, 22 hours, 55 minutes, 14 seconds
- Distance travelled
- 5,242,682 kilometers (3,257,652 miles)
- Spacecraft
- Gemini SC5
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell
- Launch mass
- 3,605 kilograms (7,948 lb)
- Members
- L. Gordon Cooper Jr. Charles Conrad Jr.
- Launch date
- August 21, 1965, 13:59:59 ( 1965-08-21UTC13:59:59Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II GLV , s/n 62-12560
- Launch site
- Cape Kennedy LC-19
- Recovered by
- USS Lake Champlain
- Landing date
- August 29, 1965, 12:55:13 ( 1965-08-29UTC12:55:14Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- 29°47′N 69°45′W / 29.783°N 69.750°W / 29.783; -69.750 ( Gemini 5 splashdown )
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth orbit
- Perigee altitude
- 170 kilometers (92 nautical miles)
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Encyclopedic overview
Gemini 5 (officially Gemini V) was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Project Gemini. It was the third crewed Gemini flight, the eleventh crewed American spaceflight (including two X-15 flights above 100 kilometers (54 nmi)), and the nineteenth human spaceflight. It was also the first time an American crewed space mission held the world record for duration, set on August 26, 1965, by breaking the Soviet Union's previous record set by Vostok 5 in 1963. This record might have been one day longer; however, Gemini V was cut short, due to the approach of Hurricane Betsy.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gemini 5” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.