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03/23/65 Gemini 3

03/23/65 Gemini 3
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03/23/65 Gemini 3

The first manned Gemini flight was launched on March 23, 1965. On board were astronauts Virgil Grissom and John W. Young. The flight lasted five hours, and the Gemini capsule that had been flown into space by a Titan II rocket completed three orbits around the earth

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