Key facts
- Mission type
- Endurance test
- Operator
- NASA
- Cospar id
- 1965-100A
- Satcat number span no
- 01812
- Mission duration
- 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes, 1 second
- Distance travelled
- 9,030,000 km (4,876,000 nmi)
- Spacecraft
- Gemini SC7
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell
- Launch mass
- 3,663 kg (8,076 lb)
- Landing mass
- 1,958.22 kg (4,317.14 lb)
- Members
- Frank Borman Jim Lovell
- Launch date
- December 4, 1965, 19:30:03 ( 1965-12-04UTC19:30:03Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II GLV , s/n 62-12562
- Launch site
- Cape Kennedy , LC-19
- Recovered by
- USS Wasp
- Landing date
- December 18, 1965, 14:05:04 ( 1965-12-18UTC14:05:05Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- Atlantic Ocean southwest of Bermuda ( 25°25′N 70°06′W / 25.42°N 70.10°W / 25.42; -70.10 ( Gemini 7 splashdown ) )
- Reference system
- Geocentric orbit
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Encyclopedic overview
Gemini 7 (officially Gemini VII) was a 1965 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. It was the fourth crewed Gemini flight, the twelfth crewed American spaceflight, and the twentieth crewed spaceflight including Soviet flights and X-15 flights above the Kármán line. The crew of Frank Borman and Jim Lovell spent nearly 14 days in space, making a total of 206 orbits. Their spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
Crew
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gemini 7” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.