Gemini 5

Also known as Gemini V

human spaceflight

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

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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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