The Gemini spacecraft is an American two-seat crewed capsule that NASA flew between 1965 and 1966 as part of Project Gemini, the second American human spaceflight program, developed to prove techniques such as orbital rendezvous, docking and extravehicular activity that the later Apollo Moon missions would depend on. Larger and more maneuverable than the earlier single-seat Mercury spacecraft, it carried out ten crewed missions that included the first American spacewalk and the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.
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SignificanceDeveloped the space travel techniques used to support the Apollo Moon landing program, including orbital rendezvous and docking. 1 Connections
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Source Encyclopedia Astronautica: Mercury
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Source Encyclopedia Astronautica: GeminiEntry text, program endQuote, Entry text, program end
work at McDonnell came to an end and the last models of the finest spacecraft ever built were scrapped.
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1. Project Gemini, Wikipedia
Infobox, First crewed flight
March 23, 1965 (1965-03-23)
Development section
McDonnell Aircraft was contracted to build it on December 22, 1961.
Lead section, objective
Gemini's objective was the development of space travel techniques to support the Apollo mission to land astronauts on the Moon.
In Group: Crewed Spacecraft, Lead sentence
Project Gemini (IPA: ) was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly.
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the real follow-on was the Gemini, also built by McDonnell.
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